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Did Comcast Overpay for NBC?
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 2:46pm | 505Read More...NBC, one of the nation's least popular TV networks, is in serious trouble. In February, the Los Angeles Times' Scott Collins detailed NBC's painful decline. "The Broadway drama 'Smash'…bombed on its return, with low ratings that shocked even TV veterans," Collins wrote. "The medical thriller 'Do...
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Should Amazon Be Allowed to Buy the .Book Domain?
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 9:00am | 688Read More...Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) decided to wage an unusual war when it announced that it wanted to secure a number of generic top level domains (commonly known as gTLDs). These are the domains that may end in something like ".books" or ".movies." Amazon wants several of them, especially .books. However,...
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Is Mike Ullman the Jay Leno of the Corporate World?
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 12:04pm | 772Read More...He lost his job in 2011. Now J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) has asked its former CEO, Mike Ullman, to come back and save the struggling retailer. Ullman was more or less ousted in 2011 after activist investor Bill Ackman pushed for him to retire. The investor was unhappy with J.C. Penney's stock...
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Intel's TV Plans Include a Search for "Weird" Employees
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 11:12am | 904Read More...Can Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) hire its way to the top of the entertainment industry? The company is about to find out. Starting with less than 100 employees in 2012, Intel Media (a new division created to build a TV service and an accompanying set-top box) has grown into a team of more than 300...
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Study Finds Social Media is Slowly Burying Newspapers and Network News
Monday, March 18, 2013 - 8:51am | 557Read More...Is NBC’s Brian Williams being replaced by @someguyontwitter? Voice of America reports that, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center, 15 percent of U.S. adults first hear about a news story on a social networking site. For young people, the number is almost 25 percent. While...
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Comcast's NBC Buy Won't Bankrupt Cable Giant, But It's Odd, Wasteful and Dangerous
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 4:09pm | 935Read More...Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) has made an unusual choice this week. It has decided to acquire the rest of General Electric's (NYSE: GE) stake in NBC at a cost of $16.7 billion. This expensive purchase will give Comcast full control over NBC and all of its assets, including a film studio (Universal...
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NBC, eBay Hacked for November 5 Remembrance
Monday, November 5, 2012 - 2:03pm | 450Read More...While Americans anxiously await election day, computer hackers have deemed it necessary to disrupt popular domains such as Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBC sites and eBay's (NASDAQ: EBAY) PayPal payment source. Although those to blame have yet to be found, the hackers in question are seemingly on a...
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Comcast's NBC Might Make Small Profit on Olympics
Monday, August 6, 2012 - 8:39am | 450Read More...Entertainment products and services provider Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBC unit said last week that there is a chance the company will make some money from its Olympic coverage, despite receiving a large amount of criticism. During a conference call last week NBC Sports Group Chairman Mark Lazarus...
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Dish Loses Bid to Dismiss Ad-Skipping Case
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 2:57pm | 479Read More...Satellite TV provider Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) is the subject of a lawsuit from broadcast networks over a new feature that allows consumers to skip advertisements. According to the Christian Science Monitor on July 3, the CBS (NYSE: CBS), NBC and Fox networks are suing Dish over the new AutoHop...
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Dish Network Seeks Cablevision's Help in Battle Against Comcast, News Corp. and CBS
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 10:21am | 361Read More...In an effort to fend off multiple lawsuits and prevent its new Hopper feature from being exterminated, Dish Network may enlist in the help of a competitor. Unofficially, of course. But if this Bloomberg Businessweek report is accurate, the satellite provider may be helped by a 2008 federal appeals...
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Is Dish Network the Most Hated Company in Television?
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 12:27pm | 1019Read More...Three of the four major TV networks have sued Dish Network for copyright infringement. There's just one catch -- Dish hasn't copied a thing. Rather, the satellite service provider has gotten into trouble for giving consumers an easy way to skip commercials. From a business standpoint, Dish's (...
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Is NBC About to Go Bankrupt?
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 9:25am | 881Read More...The ailing TV network is making a desperate attempt at salvaging its remains. But cancelled shows, lackluster pilots and management's desperate remarks are pointing to the company's imminent demise. According to the New York Post, Ted Harbert -- the broadcasting chief of the Comcast-owned (NASDAQ...
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Britney Spears & Howard Stern: What do New Celebrity Judges Mean for Talent TV?
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 12:29pm | 775Read More...Television networks are shelling out the big bucks to bring the grandest names in the entertainment industry to judge their celebrated talent shows. Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA) America's Got Talent on NBC has decided to bring in Howard Stern to choose the fate of the country's freshest meat, while...
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Apple's First TV: Would You Pay $12 a Month to Watch Free Content?
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 1:38pm | 857Read More...It could be the most Internet-friendly television in history. But would you pay more to enjoy it? There's a new startup in town that might attempt to answer that question. Aereo is attempting to bridge the gap between traditional TV viewing and Internet streams by combining the two, allowing it...
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Hulu's Latest Deal is One Vampire Fans Can Really Sink Their Teeth Into
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 3:46pm | 441Read More...Fans of The Vampire Diaries and other CW shows will soon have a reliable source for next-day video streams. In a Hulu blog post penned by Andy Forssell, SVP of Content and Distribution, the growing video site has announced that it has struck a five-year deal with The CW. Formed after UPN and The...
