If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Disney is in talks with NBCU-Fox joint venture Hulu on becoming a partner. While details are scant, a partnership would likely open up the popular online streaming video service to ABC programming, as well as content from other Disney owned properties Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Despite selling its building, The New York Times sent a memo out to employees yesterday notifying them of an all around pay cut. The Grey Lady will cut newsroom salaries by 5% and will also cut an additional 100 jobs from Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. President Obama’s historical visit to the Tonight Show garnered the highest ratings for Jay Leno since 2005. Nielsen reports that the Obama interview drew an 11.2 rating, compared to Leno’s average of 3.9. The show proved to be the fourth most Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Apple unveiled new software for the iPhone yesterday at a conference in Cupertino, CA. The company also revealed new tools available to developers to build software applications for the iPhone. For users, the new iPhone update will finally allow for the Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Yahoo is set to refresh its web video presence. While Yahoo tried its hand at web video last year in a joint venture with Pepsi dubbed “the 9”, new shows like “Primetime in No Time” maybe successful by utilizing sponsors and Continue Reading →
Today’s thought experiment is going to help us visualize the future of commercial message management. Of course message management is just a way to describe the way content gets to a consumer. We have a bunch of other names for it: television, radio and newspapers, to name a few. Traditionally, these media have been used Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer went head to head on the Daily Show last night after a week of Stewart laying into Cramer for recommending Bear Sterns stocks in the days before the company fell apart. Stewart questioned both Cramer’s and Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Amazon will begin selling electronic books for the iPhone today. Amazon will make its electronic book software available to iPhone and iPod touch users for free, while e-books will sell for $9.99, the same price as e-books for the Kindle. Amazon Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. FCC chairman Michael Copps noted that TV stations looking to make the digital transition before June 12th may be barred from doing so. As many as 690 local TV stations want to make the transition now to save thousands of Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. NBC took in $206 million on ad sales during the Super Bowl. With spots selling for $3 million, Jeff Zucker noted that NBC’s ability to sell out its ad spots is “a testament to the dogged determination of Seth Winter [SVP, Continue Reading →