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Here’s a clip of Matt Lauer at Mt. Everest from the Today show series Where In the World is Matt Lauer. Take a look at some of these amazing views of the Himalayas, and be sure to watch Matt span the globe when the series begins again on April 30th! Watch This Channel | Channels …
The annual TV “upfront” ad sales season kicks off in just a few weeks, but advertisers are in no rush to make a deal. With a dizzying array of alternatives and disagreements over audience measurement, advertisers expect the ad bazaar to be unusually complicated and drawn out this year. The haggling will start in May, …
A new video from Autism Speaks, is now available for viewing on Whatkindworddoyouwant.com, the fundraising web site launched by John Ondrasik, the lead singer of pop group Five for Fighting. The site was launched in conjunction with the recently released song “What Kind of World do You Want.” Users are invited to upload videos describing …
Time Warner may sell AOL in the next 18 months because of a “challenging” profit outlook at the Internet unit, said Bear Stearns & Co. analyst Spencer Wang. AOL may be worth more than $20 billion and provide a catalyst for Time Warner’s stock, Wang said yesterday in a research note. He raised his rating …
In the technology world, conventional wisdom says that we’ll soon be saying R.I.P. for the DVD. Internet downloads are the future, baby. No driving, no postpaid envelopes. Any movie, any TV show, any time. Only one problem: once you’ve downloaded the shows to your computer, how do you play them on the TV? Now, there …
When I’m on vacation there are several items that are on the “must bring” list. This includes clean underwear, Tylenol, and a camera. Everything else can be dealt with on an as needed basis. But some funny, unplanned moment will not repeat itself while you go buy a throw away camera. When I’m looking for …
A panel of voice-over actors, talent agents, casting directors, and network television executives will bring their advice and expertise in late March at The Learning Annex to a special crash course in voice-over work that will include a live audition. Joining the panel will be voice-over actors from such shows as The Simpsons, Law & …
Call them widgets, gadgets, modules or even blog bling. But no matter how you classify the tiny chunks of code showing up as embedded portable boxes across the web and on desktops, they’re set to change the way content is delivered and consumed. Widgets and gadgets have been around in various forms for years — …
Cisco Systems said Thursday that it agreed to acquire the online-meeting firm WebEx Communications for about $3.2 billion in cash, a takeover that furthers Cisco’s push beyond its core market and into business communications. Cisco, the leading maker of routers and switches that direct data over computer networks, said it would pay $57 per share …
Since it bought YouTube last October, Google has been chasing deals that would give it the right to put mainstream video programming on the site. Just a few weeks ago, Google’s chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, seemed confident that this courtship of old-line media companies would prove fruitful. “These things take time,” Mr. Schmidt said …
Spanish commercial channel Antena 3 became the first Spanish broadcaster to launch its own channel within the YouTube Web site Monday, allowing community users access to series, news, clips and other Antena 3 properties. The move follows the BBC’s lead after the U.K. pubcaster signed a groundbreaking content deal with Google’s YouTube for three channels, …
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner built his career trying to identify and shape hit movies and TV shows. Now he’s at it again, this time on the Internet. His investment firm, The Tornante Co., will announce Monday the formation of a studio, Vuguru, that will acquire and develop slickly written, produced and acted Web video. …
From our friends at Woot. Imagine for a moment that you have one week to live. What would you do with your time? At any other site, the answers would probably be “try to finish my symphony” or “devote my resources to doing as much as I could to help others in my final hours”. …
A group of U.S. venture capital firms, including Disney’s investment arm, was set to announce today that it had invested $23.5 million in UUSee, a major Chinese video website. UUSee distributes live and on-demand TV from CCTV, China’s largest TV broadcaster; CSAT, China’s largest satellite TV company; and Beijing TV. The investment round is being …
Google Inc. may be frustrated in efforts to reach comprehensive deals with major media companies such as NBC or Viacom Inc. to put their videos on YouTube, but it is signing up hundreds of smaller media partners, The New York Times reported on Friday. Without specifying how many of those deals have been signed since …
Verizon Wireless on Thursday launched a broadcast TV service for cell phones in about 20 Midwestern and Western markets, charging $15 to $25 a month for the initial lineup from eight leading networks. While Verizon had already said it planned to introduce the service this month, the launch provided this country’s first detailed glimpse of …
Top White House candidates unveiled their own YouTube video channels on Thursday, pushing the 18-month-old Web video-sharing site even farther into the U.S. political mainstream. Google Inc.‘s YouTube, best known for short, amusing videos made by users at home, says You Choose ’08 (https://www.youtube.com/youchoose) will allow candidates to control how they exchange views with voters. …
