If you’ve recently realized that your guilty television pleasures run to shows such as Supernatural, Nikita and The Vampire Diaries, then congratulations: You’re a fan of the CW network. And thanks to a new deal announced yesterday, it’s going to be easier than ever to catch up with your favorite shows starting later this month, [...]
As Netflix’s price rise continues to cause grumbling amongst subscribers, is Amazon about to try and become the new hub for Video on Demand content? The online giant today announced a new deal with CBS Corp. that makes 2,000 episodes of 18 different series – including Star Trek, Cheers and The Tudors – freely available [...]
Judging from the evidence of last week’s Upfront presentations in which the broadcast networks revealed their fall 2011 schedules to advertisers and the public alike, television has finally realized how to deal with the threat of cord-cutting: Ignore it altogether. Instead of trying to fight the internet, broadcast television appears to have a new aim: [...]
CBS and CNET have apparently been supporting – and profiting from – internet piracy for years, and finally some pop music hasbeens have decided to make them pay for it. A group of artists including members of 2LiveCrew, Pretty Rocky and Force MDs have joined a lawsuit against CBS Interactive and CNET that alleges that [...]
It appears that CBS boss Les Moonves wasn’t joking when he said that CBS was willing to talk to streaming VoD companies, as long as the price was right: relatively minor VoD company Boxee has announced that it will start selling individual episodes of CBS shows later this year.
There’s almost something inspirational about the determination of FilmOn.com founder Aiki David and his determination not to give up in the face of either the law or common sense when it comes to defending his company. Having been blocked from streaming content from ABC, NBC, CBS or Fox by a temporary restraining order last month, [...]
CBS isn’t saying no to Google TV – It’s just saying “Tell us how much you’re offering” before making a decision. Or, at least, that’s the message to take away from CBS CEO Les Moonves’ speech at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference yesterday, where he described Google TV as “very interesting,” before adding [...]
It’s not just ESPN that discounts the threat of audiences abandoning television for the internet; in fact, CBS’ research chief David Poltrack is even going so far as to say that he thinks that television isn’t getting full recognition of the audiences it continues to draw in. Talking at the UBS Global Media and Communications [...]
Chalk up another victory for old broadcast media – or, perhaps, one for people not stealing content. A federal judge has sided with ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox and issued a temporary restraining order against FilmOn.com, a site that streams content from television channels to mobile devices for free – without securing permission from the [...]
And then there were none.
Well, that’s not good. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ABC, CBS, and NBC are all blocking their own streaming TV content from playing inside the Google TV web browser. I can confirm that ABC and CBS are doing so, but I’m currently able to play NBC shows without any problems.
