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nbc, CBS Seen Bidding For Weather Channel
By Jui Chakravorty Das NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS Corp and GE's NBC Universal plan to bid for the Weather Channel in the second round, with bids expected to range between $3.5 billion and $4 billion, people familiar with the matter said on...
nbc, CBS Seen Bidding For Weather Channel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS Corp (CBS) and GE's (GE) NBC Universal plan to bid for the Weather Channel in the second round of bidding due in early to mid-May, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Privately held Landmark, which...
Election '08? Somebody Tell CBS, nbc, and ABC!
Election '08? Somebody Tell CBS, NBC, and ABC!Their's Another Angle To ThisWhen your convictions are liberal in nature and you're doing what you can to support the DNC, you're well advised to tone down or tune out political news for the moment. Events of the past few weeks have...
Election '08? Somebody Tell CBS, nbc, and ABC!
It's a Presidential election year, which almost always means good financial news for the television industry. This year is no exception, as the political parties and leading candidates pour hundreds of millions of dollars into high-stakes TV ad campaigns. Meanwhile, where is network TV news in this mix? ...
nbc Exec Says Apple's Business Model Has No Core
Yesterday was the beta launch of Hulu.com (a joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp. that will compete with iTunes by offering ad-supported TV and film downloads.) The timing was perfect for NBC U chief executive Jeff Zucker to explain why the company will not renew its deal with iTunes in December:...
iTune, youTune, Almost allTune for iTune...Including News Corp.
NBC Universal's pulled its shows from iTunes over pricing disputes (NBC's demands would require iTunes to sell individual programs for $4.99, not $1.99), but Fox parent News Corp. isn't following suit -- despite wanting more control over pricing. Speculation is that Universal backed out because it expected its upcoming online distribution channel Hulu (a...
nbc Names Its YouTube Competitor
NBC Inc. and News Corp. announced yesterday that they are calling their new video download site Hulu. The LA Times reports that "the site will start in a private testing format in October" and is designed "to compete with Web-based video sites such as Google Inc.'s YouTube. The site will...
Diversion of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons Expertise From the Former Soviet Union: Understanding an Evolving Problem
Since the early 1990s, the United States has been concerned about the diversion of expertise and sensitive information from the nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons complexes of the former Soviet Union (FSU). This documented briefing offers a structured assessment of the threat of NBC weapons proliferation and examines each...
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JumpTap Signs Deal with nbc Universal to Provide Mobile Advertising Services
JumpTap Named U.S. Mobile Web (WAP) Display Advertising Network for NBC Universal WAP Sites, Including NBC.com, SciFi.com, BravoTV.com CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- JumpTap, the leading mobile search and advertising provider, today announced a deal with NBC Universal to be their ad solutions provider for delivering and representing advertising inventory...
ExtendMedia's OpenCASE Now Powering nbc Direct
ExtendMedia Corporation, a provider of digitalcontent services software, successfully launched phase one of NBC Direct,NBC.com's new online video service. The latest version of ExtendMediaOpenCASE(TM) powers the complete delivery of NBC's free, ad-supportedtelevision programming downloads, and provides a higher quality videoexperience -- catering to consumers' on-demand, desktop-centric, viewinghabits. ExtendMedia's software offers...
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Movies *The trailer for Leatherheads is at movies.yahoo.com. The football flick, starring George Clooney and John Krasinski, opens April 4. *Paramount has posted a five-minute scene from Cloverfield at comingsoon.net/news/movie news.php?id=40208. *A trailer for Horton Hears a Who is at apple.com/trailers/fox/hortonhearsawho. Steve Carell and...
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TV *NBC.com has launched an auction that includes paintings from Heroes at nbc.com/auctions. *Battlestar Galactica executive producer Ron Moore is blogging at rondmoore.com/Site/Blog/Blog.html. *Writer/actor Robert Ben Garant (Reno 911!, The State) explains the writers' strike in his latest MySpace entry at myspace.com/deputytravisjunior....
nbc tests primetime on-demand with cox.(SHOW TIME)
NBC Universal has been busy making new deals and arrangements to ensure its programming is available on the Web both for a fee (Amazon Unbox) and for free with ads (Hulu.com, NBC.com). This week, the company announced an agreement with Cox Communications that let folks know that...
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TV *NBC.com is now streaming episodes of Late Night With Conan O'Brien the day after they air. *Anthony Bourdain traveled to Cleveland for his Travel Channel series, No Reservations. During the visit, he met comic-book creator Harvey Pekar, whose account of the visit is at travel.discovery.com/tv/bourdain/comic-book/cleveland-no-reservations.html....
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Movies *Yahoo has posted a trailer for Ridley Scott's American Gangster at movies.yahoo.com/feature/americangangster.html. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe star in the drama, which opens Nov. 2. *Claire Danes and Patrick Wilson co-star in Evening, a drama opening June 29. See the trailer at apple.com/trailers/focus_features/evening. ...
New game plan for 'Friday Night'
BEVERLY HILLS -- Now that it appears NBC is going to give the struggling Friday Night Lights a second chance, its tight-knit cast can shift from trying to save the show to getting people to watch it. Before an event at the Museum of Television & Radio this...
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TV *Scrubs fans may want to hear commentary posted each week on NBC.com. Viewers must play the audio while watching recorded episodes at nbc.com/Scrubs/ commentary/index.shtml. Also at NBC.com: two unaired episodes of The Black Donnellys. To watch, go to nbc.com/Video/rewind/full_episodes/blackdonnellys.shtml....
Television Web Sites Thrive During Prime Time, According to Nielsen//NetRatings
Nielsen//NetRatings (NASDAQ: NTRT), a globalleader in Internet media and market research, announced today thattelevision Web sites see an increase in time spent at home duringtelevision's prime time, weekdays 8pm - 11pm. At NBC.com in February, 40percent of total time spent was during prime time, making it the No. 1 Website...
Oh, Inverted Web World; Lower-Rated Nets Have More Popular Sites.(News)
Byline: James Hibberd Online, the entire network race is upside down. Season to date among the biggest broadcast networks, Fox is in the lead, followed by CBS, ABC and NBC. But go online and the race becomes a different story:...
New Streaming.(thePlatform signs deal with Helio)(nbc.com introduces social networking features)(CBS content is now available on Sprint TV)(Brief article)
By Staff Theplatform To Manage Helio's Video Staff Comcast's broadband video "white-label" thePlatform has made an agreement to manage Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) Helio's mobile content. As part of the agreement, thePlatform...
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