Posts Tagged with ‘fox’

Today's launch of Hulu (and its partnership with Comcast) reminded me of Fancast, which is a hybrid entertainment portal from the cable service provider.
Back in August when I reviewed Fancast, I admired it and described it as “web 2.0 meets IMDB meets TV Guide” for its comprehensive database of movies and television shows that also provided viewers with TV listings in an effort to help visitors decide what to watch each day on television.
Just as expected, my visit to [...]

Apparently, NBC Universal cannot wait for the launch of Hulu (its joint venture with News Corp.) to offer its full episodes online to viewers.
Via a press release, NBC has announced that it will be offering its top television shows for users to download up to a week after broadcast. The videos will be ad-supported, which will allow NBC to provide the shows for free. Confirmed shows for the launch include Heroes, The Office, Life, Bionic Woman, 30 Rock, Friday Night [...]

In case you haven't heard, NBC & News Corp. recently received $100 million in venture funding from Providence Equity Partners, a Rhode Island-based investment firm that specializes in the media and communications industries. This money, according to the New York Times, "will allow the companies to accelerate the introduction of their service and the transfer of NBC and Fox films and television shows into Internet-friendly video formats."
Oh, and did I mention that, since its March announcement, the yet unnamed company [...]

MySpace recently announced that it will be teaming up with the FOX television network and the Producers Guild of America to find television pilots. The “Storyteller Challenge,” beginning September 4, will be a contest in which MySpace will ask for 5-to 7-minute television pilots to be submitted and voted on by the other users of the site. Two winners will then be chosen and rewarded with a $25,000 prize, as well as the possibility of a development deal with [...]

TV Networks apparently have their eyes on Twitter as a new marketing strategy. According to the Wall Street Journal, ABC, CBS, MTV and NBC have started to experiment with the year-old service as a way to communicate with potential viewers and consumers. This seems like a potentially lucrative idea, considering that users are able to receive messages via SMS, IM, email or the Twitter website.
MTV personalities used the service to keep Twitterers updated about the MTV Music Awards directly from the red [...]

Networks playing together? Online? Together? It can’t be. But it is.
They don’t wanna hang out on YouTube, they wanna live in their own house, a web space yet to be named that will be high in professional, multi-million-dollar television programming and low in sleepy puppies and shopping cart antics.
“They” are NBC Universal and FOX (the latter is owned by News Corp), and they’re the first media houses to give Google the cold shoulder by announcing a vague plan for their [...]

(Reuters) January 16, 2007 - According to this news release via Yahoo! News, Netflix is offering its long awaited instant movie delivery service online. The service allows users to view nearly 1000 movies and TV shows on their PC's at no additional charge. The new product is scheduled to be demonstrated by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings at the National Retail Federation convention in New York. Netflix will be receiving an award today for their innovation in retail business. Hastings said [...]

When Fox starts to partner with the likes of Feedburner, you know that Web 2.0 is making an impact. The owners of MySpace, Fox Interactive have confirmed a widget development project at the Widgets Live conference. In addition to this, an alliance is to be formed with Feedburner, the highly successful feed creation and management program used by many top names. All of the b5media blogs, Profy, Tech.co.nr and more have their feeds powered by FeedBurner, mainly because of it’s [...]