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With the majority of the networks’ upfront presentations still a few weeks away, it’s difficult to predict when advertisers will start spending on television and online buys. But digital executives at most of the broadcast networks are optimistic that online sales will be a bright spot this year. If...
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CBS CEO Les Moonves said that NBC’s decision to put Jay Leno on in prime time will help his company’s bottom line. “We were the No. 1 network at 10 o’clock last year,” Mr. Moonves told analysts and investors during CBS’ quarterly earnings conference call Thursday. He estimated that CBS took in 38% of...
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The Twitterverse and blogosphere rose up last week up in a preemptive bid to keep NBC’s “Chuck” on the air. Yeah, I know: You’ve heard this story a thousand times before, from “My So-Called Life” to “Moonlight.” The plotline never seems to change: Fans beg, networks pretend to listen and, in the end...
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NBC is making the pilot for "ER" replacement "Southland" available on numerous on-demand and digital platforms a week before the show's April 9 premiere. Hulu and NBC.com have already started streaming the Warner Bros. TV-produced show, and iTunes is expected to make the show...
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Building on its Super Bowl advertising momentum, online video destination Hulu plans to launch another network prime-time ad for its site later this week on NBC and Fox. At the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Eric Feng, senior VP and chief technical officer at Hulu, said the spot will premiere...
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With three network shows on the air or in the works, nobody will ever accuse writer-producer Josh Schwartz of being a slacker—even if he still kinda looks like one. But this week, the man who burst onto the TV scene by creating “The OC” is adding another project to his ever-expanding roster. It’s “Rockville...
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CBS, Fox, NBC, Telemundo and ABC have all agreed to keep both analog and digital signals airing for their owned and operated stations through the new June 12 date set for the DTV transition. Acting Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Copps made the announcement at his first FCC meeting...
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Thu, Feb 5 2009
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NBC Universal said its television shows are driving a large portion of mobile video usage for its cell phone programming. The media company reported today that NBC.com generated more than 60% of traffic to NBCU programming on mobile phones, as cell phone users watched shows such as “30 Rock” and “The...
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Does online video viewing help or hurt old-fashioned TV? Recent research from Starz and One Touch Intelligence suggest the Web is less of a threat than previously thought. But the New Media Minute asks if that’s a smart assumption to make. This edition also covers a new effort by NBC to hire local video...
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In an effort to remake its station Web sites for the Web 2.0 generation, NBC Universal is contracting with prominent local bloggers to produce online reports in their markets. The new strategy means traditional TV reports repurposed for the Web now live alongside the edgier stuff from bloggers. That...
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Difficult times spur the greatest innovations, and television stations are proving the point. The recession is choking off revenue for stations, their newscasts face ever more ratings challenges as young viewers drift to the Web, and local newspapers are challenging their in-market video supremacy. Some...
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Last week ABC News started offering text and video reports from the network and its owned stations for free on iPhones, joining CBS News, which lets citizen journalists upload videos of news on the street using their iPhones with the Eyemobile application. One of the reasons news organizations are targeting...
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For television, there seem to be more questions than answers as 2008 comes to a close: How many industry pros will lose their jobs? How long will the recession last? How badly will the advertising market that is TV’s lifeblood falter? Wave after wave of anxiety-provoking headlines don’t help matters...
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Sun, Dec 14 2008
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Even though NBC has been wracked by huge layoffs and a tanking economy, the network’s digital division will start shooting a pilot this week for an online late-night talk show, one of nine planned Web shows for 2009. And NBC isn’t the only network pursuing Web originals for the new year; CBS also is...
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Jimmy Fallon, gearing up to host NBC’s “Late Night,” is set to launch nightly video blogs starting tonight at www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com . The blogs will take viewers behind the scenes as the “Saturday Night Live” veteran prepares to take over “Late Night” with the departure of Conan O’Brien. They...