NBC Launches Web Video Syndication Marketplace
Hoping to bring some cohesion to a fragmented online video market, and profit from it, NBC Universal has created a company to syndicate video programming to websites.
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Hoping to bring some cohesion to a fragmented online video market, and profit from it, NBC Universal has created a company to syndicate video programming to websites.
Apple on Tuesday announced plans to become the entertainment center of attention in consumers’ living rooms.
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Football coverage drew record crowds during NFL’s kickoff during the past week. ESPN’s Monday night NFL game drew the cable network’s biggest audience ever and the second-biggest in cable TV history.
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Amid the prophecies of doom about the future of newspapers, the New York Times has introduced a standalone digital reader modeled on the print version.
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Coinciding with the continued strong growth in the outdoor advertising sector, Europe’s JCDecaux saw an increase in first half profits of 29.3 percent to 71.4 million pounds.
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A new advertising display in the school of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University in the U.K. monitors Bluetooth wireless transmitters in the vicinity and displays ads most relevant to those consumers.
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PennySaverUSA.com and Midwest Free Community Papers have formed a partnership, whereby PennySaver is designated as MFCP’s vendor of choice for web services and MFCP will market and support the PennySaverUSA.com website.
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XM Satellite Radio has made a number of announcements about new hosts to join the satellite radio network in recent months. Perhaps the most high-profile of these is yesterday’s announcement that Maya Angelou will host a weekly show for the Oprah & Friends channel, which debuts Sept. 25 on XM channel 156.
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Time Inc. plans to sell 18 special interest publications in order to improve revenue, banking on its mass audience titles such as Time and People to help pull it out of its slump. The sale comes after parent company Time Warner singled out the division as one of the reasons for the conglomerate’s recent and disappointing financial report.
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In spite of over-the-top hype and a first week that looked promising, Katie Couric and the CBS Evening News began this week - her second as the news show’s anchor - in third place.
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The New York Times Company announced yesterday that it plans to sell its nine television stations in order to focus on its print and digital properties. It has hired Goldman Sachs & Company to advise it on the sale.
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Cooking Light plans to celebrate its 20th anniversary with a year-long tribute to the people and things that have contributed to changes in the health food and fitness habits of Americans over the past two decades.
On Sunday, Sept. 17, The New York Times will feature the next installment of its Super Job Market, the biggest print and online recruitment section offered by The Times to employers in the tri-state area. Featuring thousands of job listings, this semi-annual career section is an expanded version of The New York Times Job Market.
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One Stinker in the Bunch In a critical look at NBC’s new fall shows, Josh Bell of Media Life predicts that of four dramas and two comedies, there’s only one stinker in the lot.
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