In another sign that cable advertising is holding up better than broadcast advertising, fourth-quarter revenues at Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) Networks were flat versus the same period 2007, at $904 million, while ad revenues were up 6 percent. The results were boosted by growth at the U.S. networks, bu...

AOL (NYSE: TWX) and NBCU have struck a syndication deal. AOL will syndicate posts from its FanHouse blog to NBC Universal's Local Media TV station websites—marking the first time those two entities have worked together. For AOL, it's a start to fulfilling its new content strategy under its web pub...

Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. Pacific, Hulu pulled all of its video from TV.com, the recently relaunched CBS Interactive site.  A CBS Interactive spokeswoman told us this morning that no reason was given. Hulu's terse statement suggests that both parties are aware of the rationale and that's about all:...

— The Lost and Damned puts downloadable content in the spotlight: Xbox 360 owners will sink their teeth into a new chapter in Rockstar's GTA franchise next week, when The Lost and Damned, an expansion pack for GTA IV, goes live; PS3 owners will get their own episode later this year. IDC analyst Bi...

The UK's proposed big "Kangaroo" VOD JV, stuck in regulatory limbo since announcing its intention to launch in 2007, has now been killed for good by a ruling from Britain's antitrust agency that says it "would be too much of a threat to competition in this developing market and has to be stopped". A...

The ABC.com episode player has delivered more than a half-billion episodes and a billion ads while ABC and Disney (NYSE: DIS) have sold "tens of millions" of episodes through iTunes, Anne Sweeney, co-chair, Disney Media Networks, and president, Disney-ABC Television Group, said during an Industry In...

Online video viewing continues to surge, but the ad dollars flowing flowing into the space still aren't scaling accordingly. Panelists at the Reinventing Advertising Conference @ CES trotted out well-worn reasons for that imbalance: lack of standard metrics; high volume of low-quality content; build...

Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) is almost done with most of its dispositions, and after selling off its TV Guide magazine for $1 to OpenGate Capital, is getting considerably more for the namesake TV network and the online part: it has sold off TV Guide Network to Allen Shapiro and One Equity Partners for a...

CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Time Warner's Turner Networks are in discussions about making a joint bid for the broadcast rights for 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games, AP confirmed. Both media giants caution that the talks are merely exploratory and no plans have been put in place. NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) has the ...

by Scott McCown The reporter stood speaking to the camera as smoke and ash billowed from the building in the neighborhood behind him. "Bombing continued today in Lebanon with missiles striking this Christian neighborhood known for its bars and nightclubs." Read that again taking special note of the ...