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Google TV Teaser Video Shows Off Voice-Controlled Content, Genre and Channel Searches (The Next Web)

In the same week Google announced that Google Play Movies, TV shows and music were launching on Google TV this month, the Internet giant has posted a sneak peek at what’s to com... More

AT&T Does TV Everywhere Deal With Viacom Networks (Broadcasting & Cable)

Viacom made a deal with AT&T that will give U-verse subscribers access to more full-length episodes of Viacom programming online...... More

Hulu Completes Buyout of Providence (Variety)

The private equity firm, which was one of the streaming service's founding stakeholders along with NBCUniversal and News Corp., sold its 10% stake back to those congloms as well as... More

China in Hollywood, Hailed and Investigated (NY Times)

The powerful gatekeeper of China’s rapidly growing film world, the China Film Group chairman Han Sanping, will be here on Oct. 30 to receive an award as the China Entertainment ... More

Radio Is Alive, Clear Channel’s Bob Pittman Says (Wall Street Journal)

To capture bigger advertisers who have traditionally seen radio as purely a local medium, the company is using its scale to pitch for national business...... More

Cable Operators Can Fight Theft By Encrypting Signals, FCC Says (Bloomberg)

Cable companies led by Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) won U.S. permission to encrypt their basic service to fight theft and reduce service calls. The Federal Communications Commission vo... More

Viewership Drops For Fall TV Season (Wall Street Journal)

Television viewing of both cable and broadcast networks among adults under age 50 fell for the first two weeks of the new fall season, Nielsen data show, a much weaker start than t... More

Wall Street Worried About Fall TV Season (LA Times)

Wall Street is not thrilled with the new fall television season. On Thursday, two prominent media analysts issued reports expressing concern about the new season...... More

Global TV’s Sunny Forecast (Variety)

As the Mipcom sales mart wrapped on Thursday, it turned out that it was Harvey Weinstein's keynote speech that best captured the mood of the market, confirming that despite a mixed... More

Romney’s Pledge Puts Focus on PBS (NY Times)

It has been a strange week for public television executives. Meetings have been postponed. Trips have been canceled. And conversations have turned in urgency to, of all things, Big... More

Hulu Struggles To Survive the Influence of its Parent Companies (Fast Company)

Hulu's owners and CEO Jason Kilar find themselves at this crossroad after years of long-simmering tensions and occasional battles...... More

The World’s First 3-D Printed Guitar (BusinessWeek)

As far as anyone seems to know, this is the first 3D-printed acoustic guitar on the planet, and it raises all kinds musical possibilities...... More

OTT Video Ads Market to Reach $13 Billion by 2017 (IP&TV News)

OTT revenues are expected to be driven by premium long-form content over the next five years, with advertising revenues forecast to increase to $ 13.4 billion by 2017, compared to... More

Internet Advertising Reaches $17 Billion (LA Times)

Spending for Internet advertising reached $17 billion in the first half of the year, up 14% from the same time in 2011, as marketers seem to grow increasingly comfortable with usin... More

Game Sales Dive Again (Seattle Times)

Sales of game discs and hardware plunged last month, down 24 percent from sales in September 2011, according to the monthly NPD games report ... More

Best Buy to Match Online Prices (Wall Street Journal)

Best Buy Co. is planning to match the prices of Internet competitors such as Amazon.com Inc. this holiday season, even as it plays down its concerns over shoppers browsing gad... More

U.S. Court Clears Samsung Phone, Deals Blow to Apple (Reuters)

A U.S. appeals court overturned a preliminary injunction on the sale of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Galaxy Nexus smartphone on Thursday, dealing a blow to Apple Inc in a battle ag... More

Ericsson Adapts to TV Streaming Challenge (Light Reading)

Ericsson AB believes it has come up with a network-based approach to fix a bandwidth-sharing flaw with adaptive bit rate (ABR) streaming that tends to come into play when more tha... More

Everything Everywhere: ‘4G is Going to Be a Video Network’ (IP&TV News)

In this video interview with Matt Stagg, Senior Manager of Network Strategy at UK 4G mobile operator Everything Everywhere, we hear his thoughts on what the video ecosystem needs ... More