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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. New York representative Edolphus Towns announced that he plans to introduce a bill to ban file sharing networks on government computers. The goal is to eliminate peer-to-peer networks, which are easily hackable, from networks and computers connected to the government infrastructure. Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. TV Week’s will cease to exist as a print publication after this week. With ad revenue down, among other things, Crain’s will continue TV Week as a web-only destination. While some may toil over the loss, the move begs to ask Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Yahoo is set to officially shut down GeoCities by the end of 2009. The free personal web-page host, which Yahoo acquired in 1999, is a relic from the Web 1.0 era, which cost Yahoo an estimated $4.6 billion. The service will Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. NBCU and Sony have announced plans to make NBCU content available for purchase on Playstation systems. Sony will begin selling NBC shows like The Office and 30 Rock the day after they originally air on television. NBCU will also distribute feature Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The LAPD opened an investigation as to whether photos reportedly showing Rihanna after an alleged fight with Chris Brown surfaced on TMZ.com can be used in an impending investigation. The photo appears as the main post on the tabloid site. Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Nielsen is reporting that Sunday’s Super Bowl was viewed by an of average of 95.4 million people. Nielsen says the total audience for the broadcast was 148.3 million. While ratings were down over last year, Super Bowl XLIII will go Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The FCC has canceled their December 18th meeting meant to discuss the future of Chairman Kevin Martin’s proposed free nationwide Wi-Fi. After receiving letters from Senator Jay Rockefeller and Congressman Henry Waxman, the FCC lacked a consensus to move forward Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on KATIE COURIC going on the road with McCain and Palin and how it could be the GOP’s way of punishing NBC. This week’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL game between the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles drew the Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on AMAZON (NASD: AMZN) launching VIDEO ON DEMAND and whether or not it will compete with APPLE’s (NASD: AAPL) iTunes store. TIVO (NASD: TIVO) and DIRECTV (NASD: DTV) have struck a new partnership. The deal will enable Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Read Shelly’s commentary on the DISH NETWORKS (NASD: DISH) loss of subscribers, “Mortgage Crisis Causes DISH Network To Fall Off The Roof” on the blog. Watch Shelly’s commentary on NBC’s (NYSE: GE) decade high Olympic ratings and their success streaming Continue Reading →