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As March Madness fires up this week, office managers all over the country will on guard, to catch employees watching NCAA games or checking their brackets instead of doing their jobs. Lost productivity at basketball tournament time could cost companies up to $1.2 billion, according to...

American Idol was once the hottest show on American television. But after 13 seasons and more than 400 episodes, the once-popular reality TV series is slowly turning into a ratings joke. To be fair, American Idol is still one of the higher-rated shows. More than 10 million people tuned in to...

About a year after CBS rejected SodaStream's (NASDAQ: SODA) Super Bowl ad for attacking Coke and Pepsi, this year’s broadcaster, Fox (NASDAQ: FOXA), has done the same thing. For the same reason. The fact that the star of the commercial, Scarlett Johansson, sensually sips her...

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...

Like at all the other Wall Street firms, analysts at J.P. Morgan have made their recommendations for 2014. In a research report out this past week, they singled out American Tower (NYSE: AMT), Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) as three of their top picks. Below we take a...

Some techies might expect the major news stories to disappear in the days leading up to Christmas. That might happen, but it hasn't happened yet. This week proved to very fruitful, with rumors (and leaks!) surrounding the China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) iPhone deal. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) got the...

Speculation about so-called over-the-top or streaming cable via the Internet has been around for years. According to some TV-industry experts, it may be about to happen – as early as in 2014. Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA) CEO Philippe Dauman started the ball rolling at the UBS media conference in New...

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 $...

If you’re anxiously looking forward to that wonderful day when your cable TV service becomes a la carte, there’s some bad news waiting for you: that’s not likely to happen in your lifetime, according to one report. According to Laura Martin from Needham & Co., if cable bundles were to go...

CEO Jeff Bezos called them “Octocopters,” but in reality Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) future delivery vehicles are drones. In 4-5 years, Bezos told CBS, under the moniker Amazon “Prime Air,” Octocopter drones will deliver packages weighing five pounds or less direct to your doorstep in about 30...

It’s called TV Conversation Targeting and it’s Twitter's (NYSE: TWTR) latest and greatest new way to let advertisers target people who have tweeted about a certain show according to a company blog post Thursday. Only in this case, the targeting can occur even if the advertiser in question hasn’...

Here we go again, right? A content producer and a content provider are trying to hammer out a distribution deal and it’s not going well. Cue the flashbacks to the CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) drama that dragged on much of the summer complete with nasty open letters,...

While many S&P 500 components have already shared their third-quarter results, there will be plenty more earnings reports for investors to mull over this week. The week's highlights include quarterly reports from media giants CBS, Disney and Time Warner, which all are expect to post earnings...

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...