Tag: FOX

If you subscribe to Netflix and watch a lot of new releases, you won't be too thrilled about this news: Netflix just announced agreements with Fox and Universal to delay those companies' new movies for 28 days. Netflix already had this kind of deal with Warner Bros., and it's basically an attempt by the movie industry to shore up slipping DVD sales. Netflix didn't make this deal for nothing, ...

Broadcast television is full of reruns. No surprise there. And the truth is, plenty of people will watch rebroadcasts of television programs. In fact, it was recently reported that The Late Show with David Letterman was beating The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien in the ratings -- even though Letterman was in reruns while Conan was producing new episodes. But generally reruns aren't as exciting ...

Online video site Hulu emerges from private beta tomorrow. Of course, we'll forgive you if you didn't realize the service was in private beta. The site has given away thousands of invites, and users can easily embed videos on other sites, which has led to a cottage industry of Hulu cloning. Over the past month, Hulu says its videos have been streamed over 5 million times, either from Hulu.com ...

We've been talking about Hulu a lot over the last few months. The online video site is a partnership between NBC and News Corp, and contrary to our expectations, it actually doesn't suck. The videos are high quality, there's not too much advertising, and most importantly, there are a ton of shows, both current and older that you actually might want to watch. Hulu also manages to avoid one of our ...

Hulu has finally launched. And odds are you don't have access to it yet. The online video distribution service is a joint venture between NBC and News Corp, and as of today, it's open to anyone with an invitation. Hulu execs say for now, that just means a few thousand people. We have to admit, we were a bit dubious when the companies announced they would be launching an online video portal. Why ...

Rumor has it that NBC and FOX are preparing to launch a private beta of their new online video site Hulu Monday. Or maybe Wednesday. TechCrunch reports that they've got a source who says it will definitely be sometime next week. Probably. The timing would make sense. This weekend NBC pulled all of its (legally uploaded) content from YouTube. That move would seem to indicate that the network has a ...

Starting next week FOX Broadcasting will offer the season premiere episodes of several of their televisions programs for free on iTunes. The plan behind the move is that once you download the first episode of the show onto your iPod you will be so enamored with watching your favorite programs on your tiny iPod screen that you'll pay to download the remainder of the season or at the very least ...

NBC and News Corp are getting ready to answer an age old question: do people really go to YouTube to watch user-uploaded videos of cats doing stupid things or to watch illegally uploaded snippets of The Colbert Report? The two networks are teaming up to launch a YouTube competitor that will focus primarily on professional content including content from NBC and News Corp shows. Today, the new site ...

Leading photo blogging website Fotolog, has been bought up by the leading Europen interactive company Hi Media based in Paris, for a little less than the competition. But does it really matter when you can monetize the service better? Fox acquired Photobucket for about $250 million earlier this year, and this deal with Fotolog was only for about $90 million. Sure Fox has deep pockets, but Hi ...

While Viacom's strategy toward YouTube has been to sue the online video company for copyright infringement, NBC and News Corp (parent company of Fox) are trying to beat YouTube at its own game. The LA Times reports the two companies are preparing a new site that will feature clips of NBC and Fox programs, including Heroes, 24, The Office, and Family Guy. Clips would be available through the site ...

Fox has lifted a page from the RIAA playbook in a recent YouTube takedown request. Under normal circumstances, when a user uploads a copyright protected piece of video to YouTube the copyright holder complains and the item is quickly removed. In this case, where a user uploaded Simpsons and 24 episodes, Fox has gone much further, asking a court to force Youtube to fork over the personal ...

Torrentfreak is reporting that BitTorrent has struck deals with several entertainment companies including 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks (Comedy Central, MTV etc.), Palm Pictures and Starz Media, which will make those companies' movies and television shows available in BitTorrent's upcoming download store. Among the properties named are ...

Last we heard Facebook was up on the block for nothing less than $2 billion, but now they're saying they were never interested in selling in the first place. According to SiliconBeat, the king of social networking sites for the college set has just accepted $25 million in funding from some Silicon Valley investors and marketing says, "It has never been our intention to sell the ...

What's going down at Under the Radar, the "early stage technology innovation" conference happening right now? News Corp. company Fox Interactive is shopping, apparently. According to ZDNet's Dan Farber, Fox's Ron Levinson revealed yesterday that he had just bought one of the companies at the event. Which company? Well, the ink isn't yet dry on the deal and Levinson isn't saying. Farber ...