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Aereo Open to Supreme Court Bout With Broadcasters
Online streaming service won’t oppose a petition brought by CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox for copyright infringement
NBC’s Olympic Livestreaming Is a Step Forward. But Is It a Permanent One?
Right now, NBC believes that it’s in its business interest to let you watch every Olympic event live online. But will it still feel that way when live streaming becomes more mainstream?
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NBC to Stream Entire 2012 Summer Olympics Live
NBC will stop being stingy and embrace live streaming for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
All 32 Olympic sports will be streamed live at nbcolympics.com, the New York Times reports. NBC’s advertising website indicated last …
YouTube to Live-Stream the London 2012 Olympics for NBC
For the casual Olympics fan, TV coverage of popular sports like diving and track and field is broadcast often enough. But what about the handball fans? The judo followers? The people who are crazy about canoe sprints?
That’s …
Web Traffic Dips 20% During Super Bowl, yet 2.1 Million Watch Online
Fun with numbers: For the first time ever, the Super Bowl was legally streamed online here in the U.S. and, according to NBC, over 2.1 million people fired up their web browsers to watch it. Overall web traffic, however, …
Who Needs Hulu? NBC Adds Free TV Shows to Its iPad App
NBC’s iPad app just got a lot more useful with full episodes of popular shows like Community and Parks and Recreation. Both the app and the TV episodes are now free.
The selection of full episodes in NBC’s app isn’t too shabby. For primetime, scripted TV shows, the five most recent episodes are available. Late Night with Jimmy Fallon …
NBC and Facebook to Tag-Team New Hampshire Primary Debate
NBC announced today that Meet the Press will team up with Facebook to host the final GOP primary debate before the New Hampshire primaries.
The event will take place at 9 a.m. ET in the Chubb Theatre at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, NH, and air live on MSNBC and New England Cable News (NECN). It will also be streamed …
Is 2011 the Year Television Networks Forget About Cable and Cord-Cutting?
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 …
Hulu Lives! New Contracts Signed by Next Week
Hulu fans, rest easy: Long-overdue contracts that ensure the continuation of programming from Fox, ABC and NBC should finally be signed and in place by the end of next week. All Things Digital’s MediaMemo blog is reporting that negotiations between the VoD site and the networks (all of which have ownership stakes in Hulu) have finally …
NBC’s “Life”: Next Time Get A Gamer To Look Over Your Script
You would think that if you were going to use one of the most famous video game franchises as part of the main plot in one of your episodes – a cult game that inspired a movie that topped international box offices – you would check with someone who actually played the game to see if what you wrote was right, lest you offend some …
Disney Latest Complainant To FCC About Comcast/NBC Merger
The FCC have yet another voice demanding to be heard when it comes to the proposed Comcast/NBC Universal merger: the Walt Disney Company. Disney VP of government relations, Susan Fox, spent part of Wednesday talking to staff members of FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, to share her concerns about what the merger could mean for …