Sci Fi has their most watched summer ever (1)
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Filed under: Stargate, Eureka, Ratings, Reality-FreeNBC Universal has issued a press release touting the successes of the Sci Fi Channel over the summer. According to the numbers, the lineup of original programming led to the most watched summer the network has ever enjoyed. Among the highlights are Eureka, with 3.4 million viewers, which is the best performance for the show since it premiered in 2006. Ghost Hunters International checked in with 2.4 million. Scare Tactics ...
The Real Reason The Olympics Started On 08/08/08 [For The Record] (1)
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The number eight is considered lucky in China, and so everyone assumed that's why the Beijing Olympics opened on August 8, aka 08/08/08. This little chestnut gave the media a mildly exotic (but easy to understand!) piece of Chinese culture to talk about in their inevitable stories on the Olympic host country, and also something interesting to say about the opening ceremonies before they happened. But NBC Sports chief Dick Ebersol explodes the myth of ...
Advertising: America’s Commercials at the Olympics (1)
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A roundup of the Olympic Games from an ad-watcher’s point of view. Some ads were worthy of gold, while others deserved some baser metals.
Hulu Attracted 3.2 Million Users, Served 105M Streams in July (1)
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Los Angeles - Hulu, the online video-on-demand joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp., attracted 3.2 million unique users and served up 105 million streams during the month of July, PaidContent reported, citing Nielsen VideoCensus data. read more
NBC Invests in Online Scheduling Startup (1)
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NBC Universal is now backing HourTown, a year-and-a-half old startup focused on online scheduling for small businesses. HourTown announced the $1 million in new funding today, from NBC along with Baseline Ventures, Hatch Ventures and a handful of Silicon Valley angel investors — some of the same companies, HourTown’s founder points out, that initially got behind Google and PayPal in their early days. HourTown lets clients manage appointments with small business owners through its Web-based ...
Some media companies finally get it and profit from illegal YouTube movies (3)
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“For the most part, people who are uploading videos are fans of our movies. They’re not trying to be evil pirates, and they’re not trying to get revenue from it.” There you go! See? It isn’t that hard to say goodbye to that negative “the digital revolution is gonna kill us” attitude. The man who said the above words to The New York Times really gets it: Curt Marvis, the president of digital media at ...
Sites For Women Draw Traffic and Investors (1)
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These days, media firms and venture capitalists just can’t seem to get enough of the ladies. Sites aimed primarily at women, from “mommy blogs” to makeup and fashion sites, grew 35 percent last year — faster than every other category on the Web except politics, according to comScore, an Internet traffic measurement company. Women’s sites [...]
Universal HD claims there's more than the Olympics going on in August (2)
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Filed under: Universal-HDUniversal HD hopes to pump up its lineup around the Beijing Olympics, featuring Olympic Trials highlights in "Olympic Athlete Weekend" on August 2 and 3. Beyond just the coverage around the events in China there will also be plenty of extreme sports and boxing coverage all month. The news that season 4 Battlestar Galactica premieres on the station next month would be more exciting if this were last year and the Sci Fi ...
NBC Universal Buys The Weather Channel With Help From Big Money (1)
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The Weather Channel has over the years turned into a peculiarly popular attraction. Whether by viewer habit or by the simple fact that its name describes precisely what it is, it has become the preeminent source for weather readings and forecasts. And NBC Universal evidently likes what it sees in TWC, because it, along with Bain Capital and The Blackstone Group, just announced the acquisition of the property, whole hog, including the cable television network ...
Analysis: NBC's Olympic Trial (1)
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It's hardly an original insight to note that traditional media companies are trapped in their legacy business models at a time of rapid change in technology and consumer behavior. But rarely do you see the old and the new in such stark tension as in the case of NBC Universal's plans for presenting the upcoming Summer Olympics in Beijing. According to this AP story, NBC will offer an unprecedented 1,400 hours of TV coverage across ...
NBC Bypasses Apple to Stream TV Shows to the iPhone (1)
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NBC is experimenting with offering its TV shows free to iPhone users using streaming technology. This will allow NBC to make money from advertising and avoid selling downloads through Apple's iTunes Store.
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BlogHer, the online community (and conference) for women bloggers, has entered a strategic partnership with iVillage, a subsidiary of NBC Universal and a popular website toward female viewers/readers. The agreement provides iVillage access to BlogHer’s network of 2200 member blogs, and shared promotional and advertising opportunities across BlogHer’s audience. As part of the arrangement, NBCU websites iVillage, Oxygen.com and BravoTV.com will feature select BlogHer content. The announcement was made today by Lauren Zalaznick, President of ...Shared by reechard (7)Contribute comment
