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If you feel bad about leaving your dog home all day while you work, DirecTV will offer a solution of sorts: TV programming for dogs. The satellite provider will begin offering DogTV for $5.99 a month in the third quarter, according to Bloomberg. The channel broadcasts content is aimed at canines and includes “scenes with Continue Reading →

Microsoft announced on Monday via its blog that it will be selling its Mediaroom properties to Ericsson, in a deal that will see Ericsson become the dominant IPTV player in the industry with over 25 percent market share. Mediaroom operates as a pretty much separate company from Microsoft, with its own HQ in Mountain View Continue Reading →

***Roger Ebert had an agenda full of projects when he passed away last week at age 70. One of them: launching a Kickstarter campaign for a weekly TV series comeback. If Ebert saw crowdfunding as a way to bring TV programming about, you better believe many others do. We’ll never see what Ebert could have Continue Reading →

Think $25,000 for an 84-inch 4K TV is a bit tough to swallow? You’re certainly not alone, but if you’re willing to compromise on a few viewable inches, you could very well save yourself quite a bit of cash. At Sony’s NAB press conference today here in Las Vegas, the company finally shared pricing for Continue Reading →

American Idol producers — for the first time in the show’s 12-season run — will let the public determine one episode’s theme this season, Idol’s wireless sponsor AT&T exclusively told Mashable before Wednesday night’s show. After host Ryan Seacrest makes the announcement during the April 3 performance show, people will be able to submit their Continue Reading →

A federal appeals court has ruled that Aereo’s TV-anywhere service doesn’t violate copyright law, opening the door for the startup to expand a service that lets consumers watch television on their mobile device for as low as $1 a day. The decision amounts to a major victory for cord cutters and could hasten the end Continue Reading →

FX is taking on rival and programming powerhouse HBO in big ways with several major updates, president John Landgraf revealed at the networks’ upfronts Thursday morning. On the agenda: The network is adding a new string of high-profile limited series to its original programming slate, starting with a TV adaptation of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Continue Reading →

Continuing its quest to sate subscribers’ appetites with a flow of original content, Netflix has announced a new original series, Sense8. Due in late 2014, it’s being developed by the Wachowskis of The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Cloud Atlas and Speed Racer fame, as well as J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5. Details are Continue Reading →

Continuing its investment in original content, Amazon announced on Monday it is greenlighting “Zombieland,” a new comedy series based on the Columbia Pictures movie of the same name, which will be made available for free to Amazon Instant Video and LOVEFiLM UK subscribers. This is the seventh original comedy series added to Amazon Studios’ lineup, Continue Reading →

HBO has given people who listen forlornly to their friends talking about new episodes of Girls or Boardwalk Empire the barest of hopeful tidbits to snack on: HBO Go “maybe,” “could” be bundled as a service from broadband providers, in place of or addition to cable provider partnerships. Reuters reports that HBO has yet to Continue Reading →