TV

Time Warner’s TNT and TBS are joining the parade of networks offering a live linear feed of their channels online for viewers on the go. “Starting this summer, subscribers will be able to watch TBS and TNT live — anytime, anywhere, on multiple devices,” Steve Koonin, president of Turner Entertainment Networks, said at the Turner Continue Reading →

When Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting unit puts on its annual upfront event in New York Wednesday morning, they’ll do so with one sure revenue draw they didn’t expect to tout so soon… until last week. Their sure draw, in this case, subtracts one sure draw from CBS and its broadcast affiliates, whose mothership hits its Continue Reading →

This week ABC will quietly revolutionize its app for iPhones and iPads with a button called “live.” Users around New York and Philadelphia will be able to live stream all the programming from ABC’s local stations there, the first time that any major broadcaster has turned on such a technology. The functionality will be featured Continue Reading →

Arizona senator John McCain, introduced legislation that would force cable operators and other TV providers to split up their so-called programming bundles and instead offer TV shows in smaller, more affordable packages and as a la carte channels. His legislation, called the Television Consumer Freedom Act, also would require sports leagues that use publicly financed Continue Reading →

As long-rumored, YouTube is now launching paid channels in a pilot program. A small number of shows, including Sesame Street and UFC, will begin offering channels that can only be accessed after paying an apparently variable subscription fee, which starts at $0.99 per month. The Sesame Street channel, for instance, lets users stream full episodes Continue Reading →

The company that brought Android mobile apps to Macs and Windows PCs is making its foray onto another one of your home’s screens: the TV. BlueStacks’ new GamePop console and subscription service that will bring hundreds of Android game titles to any television.  GamePop is the company’s first hardware venture, and is available for pre-order. Continue Reading →

The television broadcasting industry has been up in arms over the actions of a small startup called Aereo, but it may have bigger things to worry about in the future. Aereo’s business of capturing over-the-air broadcast television signals and delivering it to subscribers over the internet for a fee has caused major broadcasters such as Continue Reading →

A new report suggests that LG and Google will be teaming up to produce several new products including another smartphone and an OLED TV set. According to the Korea Times, Google CEO Larry Page met with LG’s chief executive Koo Bon-joon on a recent visit to South Korea. The two executives reportedly spoke for more Continue Reading →

Netflix’s chief content officer has a novel way to combat online piracy: give people easy and affordable ways to access content. In an interview with Stuff, Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos said that “the best way to combat piracy isn’t legislatively or criminally but by giving good options” and observed that “when we launch in Continue Reading →

Nielsen is a long-established player in the audience metrics field, covering marketing and consumer information, television and other media measurements including online and mobile. So it comes as little surprise that Nielsen is now expanding its digital measurement scope into online TV content. The pilot program kicks off at the start of May and will Continue Reading →