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By Paul Sweeting Movies, video games and consumer electronics will be featured heavily in Black Friday sales this year. If there is a Black Friday this year, that is. Walmart, the ... More

By Paul Sweeting Time Warner-owned Turner Sports partnered with CBS back in 2010 to put up $10.8 billion over 14 years for TV and digital rights to the NCAA's March Madness basket... More

By Paul Sweeting With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in Washington preparing to hear oral arguments over the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules... More

By Paul Sweeting Americans started showing signs of falling out of the habit of watching television in 2012. Total viewing time was down 2% in the first quarter of the year, and d... More

By Paul Sweeting The search for a better way to navigate among the growing thicket of channels and apps showing up on TVs continues. Google rolled out its bid to reinvent the TV i... More

By Paul Sweeting Getting cancelled is a rite of passage for anyone trying to build a career in television. The same will be true even in the future of television, apparently. AdA... More

By Paul Sweeting Spotify is closing in a new $100 million financing round that values the streaming music service at just over $3 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Wh... More

By Paul Sweeting Whatever else it accomplishes, Tuesday's election could have significant impact on several public policy issues affecting the copyright and technology industries.... More

By Paul Sweeting The third-quarter numbers for pay-TV providers painted a grim picture of the industry. According to an estimate by Sanford Bernstein, the industry as a whole lost... More

By Lyndsey Schaefer As the industry continues to explore its passion for cloud computing, new cloud-based models are appearing each week for steps in the broadcast and production ... More

By Paul Sweeting Netflix's board of directors on Monday otherwise known as a poison pill, in a bid to stave off a potential raid on the company by billionaire investor Carl Icahn.... More

By Paul Sweeting When billionaire investor Carl Icahn bought up a big chunk of Blockbuster shares back in 2004 he was hoping for a quick profit from Blockbuster's then-pending acq... More

By Paul Sweeting Streaming video set-top box maker Boxee has landed an exclusive retail distribution deal with Wal-Mart for the new $99 Boxee TV device that features an antenna fo... More

By Lyndsey Schaefer Industry veteran Theodore X. Garcia has recently joined FilmTrack as Senior Vice President of Professional Services and Customer Engagement, where he will work... More

By Paul Sweeting Peter Kafka at AllThingsD had an interesting read on Netflix's third-quarter results released yesterday. According to Kafka's interpretation of what Netflix CEO Re... More

By Chuck Parker While the last official news from the UltraViolet website is from August 15th of this year, there was aninteresting panel last week and some interesting support... More

The accelerating growth in the number of devices capable of accessing and displaying professional video content is having the paradoxical effect of slowing down routine dealmaking ... More

At a gala dinner last night in San Francisco, CDSA founder Larry Finley was posthumously inducted into the prestigious Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame. Finley was among an induct... More

By Martin Porter I confess.  I haven't been thinking a lot about discs lately.  I'm been obsessed with Boardwalk Empire (HBO Go), and working my way through massive TV epics like... More

LOS ANGELES -- Twentieth Century Fox New Media and Digital Distribution President Peter Levinsohn made a bullish case for the impact of global digital revenue on studios' bottom li... More