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Europe Struggles With Three Strikes, Fox Exec Wants It Anyway
The passage of the EU’s Telecoms Reform package yesterday and a new survey from UK ISP Talk Talk cast new doubts about so-called “three strikes” copyright laws against file sharers, but that doesn’t stop Fox Filmed Entertainment Chairman Jim Gianopulos from suggesting ...
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Desert Bus For Hope Rides Again for the Third Year
Pop quiz: Does the Canadian sketch comedy troupe Loading Ready Run have: a) A great big heart? b) A major masochistic streak? c) Both? The correct answer is probably C, as for the third year in a row, the gang has come together in one room to spend endless days and nights playing Desert ...
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ComScore: Nearly 28B Videos Viewed in October
Well the cat was kinda let out of the bag yesterday when the Internets spoiled the news that Hulu had a huge month in October , according to comScore. So with that out of the way, let’s take a look at what else comScore tells us about online video viewing last month. Overall, it was a ...
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Italian Prosecutors Said to Be Seeking Jail Time for Google Execs
Prosecutors in Milan are asking for one-year jail sentences for two Google execs and its former CFO should they be found guilty of defamation and privacy violations, reports Bloomberg . The charges stem from a 2006 cellphone video Google hosted that showed a disabled teenager being taunted by ...
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Iraqi Government Jumps on the YouTube Bandwagon
Iraq has joined the growing list of nations whose governments have made the move into online video, with the launch of the Iraqi Government channel on YouTube. In his first address on the new video channel, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said the Iraqi government will use its YouTube presence ...
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Ustream Viewer Launches on Android (Just in Time for a KISS Concert)
Ustream has launched its Viewer App on the Android market, enabling users to watch streams of live events for free while interacting with other users on their mobile devices. The release comes as Ustream ramps up its coverage of live events, including live streaming from the red carpet ...
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New Avatar Trailer Is Interactive, Spoiler-Active
I’m still not sure how excited I am about the upcoming James Cameron 3-D opus, Avatar . I want to be excited for it, but — eh, whatever. In an effort to ramp up interest in the pic, 20th Century Fox today released a an interactive version of the trailer for the film (hat tip to ...
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How Low Can TiVo Subs Go?
TiVo’s subscriber count dropped by a sharp 314,000 for the quarter ending on October 31, 2009, the company revealed during its earnings call today . TiVo’s total subscribers fell to 2.76 million. Our friends at TV by the Numbers said this is the worst quarter ever for subscriber ...
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Doctor Who Faces Off Against the BBC’s Unkillable Foe: Piracy
On an snowy vista, a 30-something British man in a suit, straw cowboy hat and floral lei exits a blue phone box. He then starts jabbering to a strange-looking alien about deflowering Queen Elizabeth I, as well as his potentially impending death. And then there’s a glimpse of an alien ...
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The Problem With the Boxee Box
Boxee generated a lot of excitement on the part of online video fans when it said it would release a dedicated hardware device that will enable users to connect its open-source media center software directly to their TVs. But by becoming a hardware company, Boxee may have to choose between ...
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Vid-Biz: AT&T, Rogers, Redbox
AT&T Looking For An Original Content Exec; a job posting reveals the telco wants to hire an executive to lead the development of original programming for its “multiple entertainment and communications platforms.” ( Multichannel News ) Rogers Launching On Demand Online Next ...
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ABC Shows, New TV Season Boost Hulu Views by 47 Percent
Hulu got a nice shot in the arm in October, according to the latest comScore numbers, indicating that newteevee is a lot like oldteevee in some ways. The premium content portal saw double digit growth in both streams and unique visitors, spurred by a new content partner in ABC and a new fall ...
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Google Taps TiVo for TV Ad Data
Google said today that it will improve the precision of its TV Ads system through a new deal with TiVo that will give the search giant access to viewing data from 1.6 million TiVo DVRs. The “second-by-second” information will enable Google to learn which ads are being watched, ...
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Joost Acquired By Online Ad Firm Adconion
After three years of trying — and failing — to make a business out of running an online video portal, Joost has been acquired by advertising and branded entertainment firm Adconion Media Group . Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but the acquisition will come as little ...
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Here’s Our NewTeeVee Wish List, What’s on Yours?
Black Friday is almost here, so that means now is the time to think about what you want for the holidays. In that spirit, we’ve put together a list of NewTeeVee-related gear we’d like to receive (hopefully our families are reading this), but in the spirit of giving, we’re also ...
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Will Valemont Become an Oldteevee Show?
With New Moon sucking a bajillion dollars out of the world’s wallets this past weekend, don’t count on the vampire craze dying (errr, undying?) anytime soon. Perhaps this bonanza will help spur MTV to transform its vampire interstitial/web series, Valemont into a bona fide TV ...
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StatShot: Oprah Topples Gleeks on Twitter
While the fall TV season has been all about Glee in terms of Twitter, Oprah proved that kids singing show tunes are no match for her mighty media empire. The queen of daytime announced last week that she was calling it quits on her eponymous syndicated talk show and focusing her efforts on ...
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Hulu’s New Embed Policy Can Only Hurt It
Backstory: Hulu and Embeds Before Hulu even had a name or its current management team, it had distribution partners : AOL, MSN, MySpace, Yahoo. All along, one of Hulu’s most distinctive and friendly features has been that all its content is embeddable. Since ...
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Fear News Reinvents the Talking-Head News Show
For some actors, just sitting down and reading off a teleprompter is hard work. So Ginger Marie Rogers, host of Fear News , might have one of the toughest on-camera jobs in web video history. For each week, the 25-year-old actress not only has to spew out the latest developments in horror, but ...
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Oxygen’s Bad Girls Club Goes Social
Cable programmer Oxygen is adding a social viewing experience for fans of its Bad Girls Club reality TV show, with the launch of OxygenLive, a new web site where viewers can socialize, take polls, and chat with other fans. OxygenLive will enable viewers to participate in a real-time chat ...
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