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Over-the-top online, web-based television is on. At least it is at Verizon (NYSE: VZ) after CEO, Lowell McAdam said Tuesday at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference that the company was in talks with major content providers to provide an online TV service. Without...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) didn't have any major products to unveil this week, but the Mac maker did make one major announcement. Once again, Apple has set a new record for quarterly iPhone sales. Meanwhile, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) got out of the smartphone manufacturing business and sold Motorola...

Instead of waiting several days for free Hulu access to ABC shows, consumers are choosing to download them illegally. On January 6, Disney's (NYSE: DIS) mainstream TV network stopped offering free access to its shows (via Hulu.com and ABC.com) the day after they air. Hulu Plus and pay-TV...

Merry Christmas if you’re one of the privileged few who received the deal of a lifetime Thursday while booking airline tickets. According to reports, some customers were able to secure tickets for as cheap as $25 through Delta Airlines (NYSE: DAL). The glitch lasted for at least an hour,...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) seems to have paid a fairly high price for CBS' (NYSE: CBS) hit drama. During a UBS investor conference, CBS Chief Exec Les Moonves said that Amazon paid $700,000 for the digital streaming rights of each episode of Under the Dome. It's not uncommon for TV networks to spend $...

New technology could help Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) earn advertising revenue from streaming videos. The cable operator is testing technology that lets it insert up-to-date commercials into past episodes of programs that viewers watch through video On Demand services, Reuters reported. Comcast is...

Another sign of the growing strength and influence of Spanish-language broadcasting in the United States: HSN (NASDAQ: HSNI), the multi-channel, interactive home shopping network, has started a partnership with Univision Communications, to create what it calls “the first fully integrated...

In a move that could send shivers up the spine of Aereo and other cord-cutting services, Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) will allow users to stream select channels through a mobile device. There's just one catch: the current channel lineup leaves a lot to be desired. According to Variety, the new...

Historically, Halloween was a time when regular network television series gave a passing nod to the popular holiday with perennial “Trick or Treat” episodes. Cable channels dusted off their stash of old horror flicks and viewers enjoyed such offerings as Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) owned, Syfy...

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) aims to make America’s four biggest TV networks an offer they can’t refuse – at least one they won’t want to refuse. The offer is to begin sending weekly reports, letting ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC know how much chitchat their programs generate on the popular social network,...

Remember when Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) was little more than an online video rental store? Times have changed. Sunday they changed some more as the video rental plus streaming video service won a best director Emmy for David Fincher of House of Cards. From a convenient way to rent DVDs to even...

Low Winter Sun, the latest drama from AMC (NASDAQ: AMCX), isn't merely another Detroit 1-8-7. Viewers may remember that latter series as an ill-fated cop show from Disney (NYSE: DIS) and ABC. While it had a notable fan base (IMDb readers gave it a 7.3 out of 10; TV.com readers awarded it with a...

The PGA Championship kicked off Thursday and with notables like Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson both well off of the lead and CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) choosing not to give 3.5 million people the opportunity to watch it, the tournament has the potential of being...

If you have ever worked with someone who was lazy, ineffective or just plain wrong for your company, Fox's new reality show could be right up your alley. The News Corp.-owned (NASDAQ: NWS) network is launching a new series, Does Someone Have to Go?, this Thursday at 9:00 p.m. "The concept and the...

Barton Crockett, senior media and entertainment analyst at Lazard Capital Markets, called in to CNBC's Squawk Box for a chat on The Walt Disney Company's (NYSE: DIS) $0.02 beat, with their Q2 EPS at $0.79 over $0.77 analyst estimates. Their revenue for Q2 is up $10.55 billion over $10.49 billion...