Media mogul Rupert Murdoch launched Monday an ambitious bid to create a pan-European television giant to tackle fierce competition, rapid sector consolidation, and aggressive bidding wars for live football rights. British pay-TV group BSkyB revealed…
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One of Japan’s most popular cartoon creations, Doraemon, a robot cat from the future with a magic pocket and a portal to anywhere, is to make his debut on US TV this year, officials said Friday. TV Asahi, which partially owns the rights to the character…
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – May 01, 2014) – Whenever you click on your computer mouse, or press a button on…
Aereo, a media startup that streams broadcasted live television over the Internet for paying users, is facing claims against it in the Supreme Court tomorrow. The result of this ruling could very well change not just live television and its ability…
It’s Gary Busey’s lucky day. Amazon’s Fire TV has just added several new content partners for the streaming box’s unified voice search feature, including Hulu Plus, Showtime Anywhere and Crackle. Users looking for something to watch will now…
Comic Stephen Colbert will succeed TV icon David Letterman as host of the “Late Show” next year, CBS said Thursday, the latest move in a changing of America’s late-night old guard. The announcement came after Letterman said he will step down next year…
Last week Amazon finally ended months of rumors when the company unveiled Fire TV, a tiny black square box that plugs into your television and streams content from the web. As it happens, Amazon’s long-awaited entry into your living room space was…
It has seen wacky bets performed before millions and hosted an A-List of Hollywood stars, but after a three-decade run Germany’s once top-rated TV variety show is getting the axe. A victim of plummeting ratings, a fast-greying fan base and charges that…
France’s top football league sold domestic television rights for 2016-20 for a record sum of nearly one billion dollars a year, officials said Friday. The new deal saw Ligue 1 sold for 726 million euros ($994 million) a year and the second division…
David Letterman, a pillar of American late-night TV talk shows, announced Thursday that he’ll be stepping down as host of “Late Night” on CBS next year after a 22-year run. “We don’t have the timetable for this precisely down,” said Letterman, 66,…