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Spotify held ransom by secret record label demands

Spotify held ransom by secret record label demands

This is definitely a case of good luck luck with that whole profit making idea given that Spotify is having to deal with some recently leaked secret demands from the record labels. It’s not bad enough that the record labels […]

Netflix, Hulu Will Not Lower Cable Bills, Analysts Say

Netflix, Hulu Will Not Lower Cable Bills, Analysts Say

Just today, I saw a glowing update in my Facebook feed from a friend who’d cut her cable costs significantly by switching to Hulu Plus and Netflix. Chances are, if you haven’t considered it, someone you know has. And here […]

Zombie Soaps ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live’ Find New Online Home

Zombie Soaps ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live’ Find New Online Home

Hmmm… not sure if incongruent or thinking ahead. Soap operas are typically the domain of the seemingly less tech savvy- grandmas, home health care workers and people who are stuck at the laundromat are normally seen as the dying medium’s […]

Movie Studios Embracing Web Distribution as DVD Sales Decline

Movie Studios Embracing Web Distribution as DVD Sales Decline

It doesn’t feel like that long ago that the record industry was fighting digital distribution tooth and nail. Perhaps it’s because they’re still kind of doing it to some degree- but a recent Los Angeles Times piece on the film industry’s […]

Cablevision, Turner Broker TV Everywhere Deal, Increasing Mobile Content For Subscribers

Cablevision, Turner Broker TV Everywhere Deal, Increasing Mobile Content For Subscribers

Cablevision, the company behind iO Digital Cable, and Turner Broadcasting’s TV Everywhere have brokered a deal that will bring programming from TBS, TNT, CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and truTV to subscribers iPads, iPods and iPhones. Cablevision recently released an app […]

NBC Adds Full-Length Episodes to iPad App

NBC Adds Full-Length Episodes to iPad App

Fans of NBC properties like 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation and Community with iPads will be pleased to hear that the network’s iPad app was updated to allow viewing of entire episodes on Thursday. GigaOM reminds readers that it originally called the app […]

EW Scripps to Add Live Streaming to Mobile in All Markets

EW Scripps to Add Live Streaming to Mobile in All Markets

The EW Scripps Company has announced plans to bring mobile video streaming of live TV to all nine of its markets in the US. The platform- which “works very simply,” the company says in a press release- allows users to […]

Pandora Stock Drops 11% on iHeartRadio Revamp News

Pandora Stock Drops 11% on iHeartRadio Revamp News

Music streaming service Pandora took a hit in trading today on news Clear Channel Broadcasting overhauled its iHeartRadio service. While a simple makeover would be one thing, the iHeartRadio revamp includes the addition of some key Pandora features that up […]

MediaTakeOut to Launch Reality Dating Web Series

MediaTakeOut to Launch Reality Dating Web Series

MediaTakeOut, the gossip site that Wikipedia describes as an entity “catering to people that are interested in drama,” has been a frequently prominent face on the gossip blogging scene for a few years now- featuring often salacious stories the site’s […]

Facebook Set to Join Streaming Fray?

Facebook Set to Join Streaming Fray?

In what probably feels like the final slap in the face to basically dead social network MySpace, a report over on Mashable indicates that the dominant social network may have set its sights on joining the well populated streaming music […]

Amazon Expands Streaming Titles, Hints That DVDs Could Be on the Horizon

Amazon Expands Streaming Titles, Hints That DVDs Could Be on the Horizon

While it seems Netflix is doing everything in its power to focus on streaming and curb the physical media aspect of its business entirely, Amazon has hinted that it may actually move toward DVD rental as a way to grow […]

Apple Ends 99 Cent TV Rentals

Apple Ends 99 Cent TV Rentals

Streaming shows for a single viewing is rising in popularity- witness the rapid rise of Netflix streaming and the high sale numbers batted around for the impending sale of Hulu– but Apple has quietly backed out of the rental market. […]

YouTube Hosts ‘The Godfather’ in its Entirety For a Brief, Glorious Moment

YouTube Hosts ‘The Godfather’ in its Entirety For a Brief, Glorious Moment

Chalk it up to the long tail end of summer and a lot of bored people at understaffed offices on Hump Day- but one of the bigger stories relating to YouTube this afternoon and evening had to do with a […]

RIM Jumps on Spotify Bandwagon, Reportedly Looking at Streaming Music Service for BlackBerry

RIM Jumps on Spotify Bandwagon, Reportedly Looking at Streaming Music Service for BlackBerry

With the July launch of music streaming service Spotify, it looks like the newly-available handset streaming functionality portion of the service for iPhone and Android could be kicking off a wave of competition among other providers. Yesterday it was announced […]