Wednesday - July 1, 2009
Just three years after launching in a fanfare of publicity, Joost, which provides professionally made TV on the Web, is shifting directions. It will now provide white label online video platforms to media companies and distributors. Joost is closing down its offices in the Netherlands, retaining offices in the U.S. and the UK. Joost on Tuesday said it will provide the market with a cost-effective, end-to-end solution for media companies to publish videos under their own brands. It also said it is winding down operations in its development center in Leiden, Netherlands.
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Wednesday - June 24, 2009
The cable industry's new rallying cry may indeed be "TV Everywhere," as announced Wednesday by Comcast and Time Warner executives. However, TV arguably is already everywhere -- on the Web, on your smartphone, on your Xbox 360. Perhaps what Brian Roberts and Jeff Bewkes really meant to announce was "Pay TV Everywhere."
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Friday - June 12, 2009
TV stations across the U.S. started cutting their analog signals Friday morning, ending a 60-year run for the technology and likely stranding more than 1 million unprepared homes without TV service. The Federal Communications Commission put 4,000 operators on standby for calls from confused viewers and set up demonstration centers in several cities.
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Wednesday - June 10, 2009
The last major TV stations that are still broadcasting in analog will turn those signals off Friday and go all digital, and this time, they really mean it. The original Feb. 17 deadline for the shutdown was delayed by the Obama administration after funding ran out for $40 coupons the government offered to help people buy converter boxes for old TVs.
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Saturday - May 30, 2009
The final act of the year's biggest pop culture sensation will not be seen on TVs, beamed out to multiplexes or heard much on the airwaves. Well, at least not in America. The phenomenon of Susan Boyle, seen by millions of Britons on ITV's "Britain's Got Talent," has been a worldwide digital storm played out in sporadic installments on the Internet.
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Friday - May 29, 2009
It's something Gawker's snarky arbiters of culture would normally find irresistible: An advertisement for a TV program in the form of a blog that's embedded within a popular Web site and made to look just like it. It might, if the fake vampire blog paid for by HBO to promote its series "True Blood" wasn't on Gawker itself.
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Wednesday - May 13, 2009
While most of us have been yearning for a return to the 1990s-era economy, an Internet company advertising its products on television was not the sign we had in mind. Yet that is what TV viewers who still watch commercials will get to see this weekend, according to news accounts -- and the advertiser is none other than Web 2.0 giant Google.
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Friday - May 8, 2009
Someone has made a tragic mistake and handed me the keys to a major TV station group. I've been told I can take it for a spin, provided my buddies and I don't trash the leather seats. I have to make sure it's got plenty of gas when I bring it back -- dent-free, or it's my ass. This scenario is playing out only in the multiplex of my mind.
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Friday - May 1, 2009
Video streaming site Hulu has struck a deal with Disney to make the media conglomerate's programming, including shows from its ABC television network, available online through its channel. In addition to taking a nearly 30 percent stake in Hulu, Disney will put full episodes of its ABC TV subsidiary's shows on the site.
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Wednesday - April 29, 2009
Seeking to help users organize and view TV content online, ZeeVee recently launched the latest iteration of its video browser. Currently in beta, the new Zinc browser, formerly named "Zviewer," has more than just a new name. Besides new content from existing video hubs, the browser has added more content providers, seriously expanding the scope of its online library.
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Monday - April 20, 2009
You may keep your computer and your TV in separate rooms in your house, but the living arrangements between the two devices are going to get a little cozier, thanks to Adobe. The multimedia software company used the National Association of Broadcasters' annual meeting in Las Vegas Monday as a stage to announce it is extending its market-leading Flash Web video platform to the kinds of devices you find in your living room.
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