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Following The NFL Combine On The Second Screen (Forbes)

Over 300 former college football players will show up to the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Indiana over the next few days, all of whom will hope to put forth their best eff... More

Channel 4 Taps Kit Digital for Windows 8 App (Digital TV Europe)

UK broadcaster Channel 4 is using technology supplied by Kit Digital to deliver its 4oD video-on-demand service to Windows 8-based mobile devices. Kit Digital developed the app for... More

Pay TV Cord Cutting Will Be “Minimal” Over Next Five Years: Report (Deadline)

PwC says that television execs have a little time to relax before their lucrative business models implode. The consulting firm reached its conclusion after sponsoring a recent deba... More

Cynopsis: Kids! Announces Webinar on Leveraging the Second Screen in the New Kids Market (PR Web)

Saban Brands, Cartoon Network and No Crusts Interactive are actively engaging young viewers with second screen content including series spin-offs, interstitials and games. Experts ... More

RIAA Report Criticizes Google's Efforts To Limit Infringing Search Results (Billboard)

A new RIAA report paints an unpleasant picture of Google's efforts to downgrade illegal content in its search results since August. The "Six Months Later - A Report Card on Google'... More

Samsung Readies TV, Movie Search Service For Tablets, TVs (TWICE)

A video-discovery service developed by Samsung will lets users of Samsung smart TVs and Samsung mobile devices search for specific TV shows and movies across multiple Internet-vide... More

Charlie Ergen: Blockbuster Stores Too Big Just for Video (HMM)

Blockbuster LLC continues to operate under the microscope of parent Dish Network, with the satellite TV operator determined to extract incremental revenue from the iconic brand whi... More

Suddenlink Pushes TiVo Mini Into 100+ Communities (CED)

Suddenlink Communications is the first cable operator in the nation to offer its subscribers access to TiVo’s Mini, which is a small device that lets users view live and recorded... More

Churn Reduction Is Key For Mobile TV, Not Direct Revenues (Videonet)

Trying to tie consumers down to your mobile network if they want to access mobile TV content is the wrong approach if you want to use mobile video to build customer engagement and ... More

Freeview Brings the Fight to Pay-TV (IPTV News)

UK free-to-air DTT platform Freeview has unveiled a new marketing campaign that directly questions the value offered by pay-TV services in the country, at a time when 75% of viewin... More

Sky in Disney Movies Launch (Advanced Television)

ot content with launching a channel dedicated to the world’s most enduring spy with its Sky Movies 007 service, Sky has revealed that it is working with Disney to create a brand ... More

Nielsen Agrees to Expand Definition of TV Viewing (Hollywood Reporter)

The Nielsen Co. is expanding its definition of television and will introduce a comprehensive plan to capture all video viewing including broadband and Xbox and iPads, several sourc... More

It Turns Out A Lot Of Companies Like Building Their Own Storage Gear (GigaOm)

Backblaze pioneered the concept of open source storage hardware in 2009, and its designs have caught on. Hundreds of institutions — including Netflix and Shutterfly — use the d... More

New Consoles, Same Old Story (GamesIndustry International)

If you have even a passing interest in the games industry, there's a good chance you've spent much of the last week thinking about boxes. Nintendo's latest box, perhaps, which has ... More

Mobility and OTT Will Drive Early H.265 Adoption (Broadcast Engineering)

Ratification of the H.265 (High Efficiency Video Coding) standard by the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) late January clears the way for its adoption as the anointed s... More

Survey: Nearly a Quarter of Netflix Subs Cancel Pay-TV Service (HMM)

Reed Hastings may want to revisit his canard that Netflix’s pioneering subscription video-on-demand service isn’t contributing to cord-cutting among cable and satellite TV subs... More

Fibre Drives Global Broadband Access Forward (Advanced Television)

As broadband subscribers approach 635 million globally, figures published by the Broadband Forum and prepared by broadband industry analysts Point Topic reveal that hybrid fibre ac... More

Why LinkedIn is a Sleeping Giant of Publishing (Digiday)

Let’s say you were to construct the ideal business publisher from scratch. It would have a strong tech platform that doesn’t slow down because of too many users or ads. It woul... More

Is DVR Still A Television Villain? (Videonet)

Towards the end of last year there was an interesting debate that exposed very different opinions about whether DVRs are a good thing for channel owners and whether the TV industry... More