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A new service from Bryan Media may be available next year that will allow pocket PC and mobile phone users to watch their favorite local channels and cable television shows on their mobile devices, anywhere there is a wireless data signal available. IceTV, which stands for interactive communications and entertainment TV, will launch with a channel line-up that includes news, sports, weather, and a slate of entertainment programming.
IceTV is currently completing its beta-test with eight live TV channels and is in negotiations with selected broadcast and cable networks to include in their launch line-up. The company expects to complete those agreements in the next 30 to 45 days and will go to market with up to 16 channels in the first quarter of ‘06.
CBS Radio and Yahoo, two of the largest online radio providers, are combining their online radio stations, beginning early next year.
CBS Radio’s 150 stations and LaunchCast’s 150 online stations will be integrated into Yahoo’s music site, powered by CBS…
Cox Enterprises, Inc. announced today that the company is bringing together its three media units - Cox Newspapers, Cox Television and Cox Radio - under a new organization named Cox Media Group, Inc., effective January 2009. The subsidiary will be headquartered…
Target is one of the first brands to create an iPhone application. The Target “gift globe” allows iPhone users to shake their phones to launch a snow-fall effect.
When the snow clears, a gift idea from Target is revealed. Users…
ABC is set to launch a slew of new series in a midseason shuffle. Primetime: What Would You Do? returns Tuesday, Jan. 9, in the 10pm time slot. The show is a hidden camera experiment in which actors stage scenarios…
Only 28% of the audience of an average news program, website or magazine gets valuable information about products and services advertised there, making news venues less effective at conveying ad messages than all forms of media combined (see chart), according…
Effective immediately, any telemarketing call that delivers a prerecorded message must include a quick and easy way to opt-out of receiving future calls. The opt-out must work both for consumers who answer these calls in person and for those whose…
