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News Corporation, which owns Fox, reported operating income of $18 million in broadcast television, compared with $245 million a year ago. And Disney’s broadcasting business had a 60 percent drop in operating income.
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Apr 11, 09
The data reaffirms much of what Nielsen has found in past studies, namely that television remains by far the dominant medium for video viewing. The Ball State study found that the average American adult was exposed to five hours and nine minutes of live TV each day, almost 15 minutes of TV via a DVR device and 2.4 minutes of video on the computer.
“Even though people have the opportunity to watch video on their computers and cellphones, TV accounts for 99 percent of all video consumed in 2008,” Mr. Bloxham said. “Even among the 18-to-24-year-olds, it was 98 percent.” -
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ZillionTV now has more than three dozen content partner deals, including Walt Disney, 20th Century Fox Television, NBC Universal, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution.
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For the most part, Zillion TV is free and ad-supported. Viewers can also choose pay-per-program with no advertising. There is only a one-time, initial service activation fee.
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The free video Web site Hulu, a joint venture of NBC Universal and the News Corporation, counted 35 million unique viewers in February — only a fraction of the hundreds of millions who watch TV every month, but a 42 percent jump from January, according to comScore. The ratings for some programs, like “Lost” on ABC, would rise as much as 25 percent if online views were included, according to the ratings service Nielsen.
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One company getting squeezed by these pressures is Boxee, a New York start-up whose software for PCs can be used to bring shows from Web sites like Hulu to the television set. Last month, Hulu’s backers, Fox and NBC, pressured Hulu to remove its content from the Boxee service because it threatened their efforts to get the cable operators to pay them what the industry calls retransmission fees.
Boxee has been trying to restore Hulu to its service, with both technical workarounds and through negotiations with the networks.
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Brightcove, Joost, Veoh Networks, Sling Media, AOL, Microsof
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CBS said none of the deals are exclusive. "From a traditional media company's perspective, the object is to put your content on as many next-generation platforms as you can," said
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Apr 19, 09
The new interactive division also distributes entertainment and news content to more than 300 partner websites that make up the “CBS audience network” but are not owned by the company. The websites carry the content, and CBS sells ads and shares revenue with the partner. As of January 2009 the audience network included Microsoft, AOL, and Joost as well as social networking sites like Bebo.
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The new interactive division also distributes entertainment and news content to more than 300 partner websites that make up the “CBS audience network” but are not owned by the company. The websites carry the content, and CBS sells ads and shares revenue with the partner. As of January 2009 the audience network included Microsoft, AOL, and Joost as well as social networking sites like Bebo.
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