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in title, tags, annotations or urlFor Microsoft and Xbox, Focus Shifts From Game to Video - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Executives at Microsoft are fond of saying that its subscription gaming service, Xbox Live, should be thought of as a cable channel.
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The company is even producing shows for users: it is in the middle of the second season of “1 vs. 100,” an interactive version of a game show that was on NBC.The content ambitions do not end there. Microsoft has held in-depth talks with the Walt Disney Company about a programming deal with ESPN, according to people close to the talks, who requested anonymity because the talks were intended to be private.
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For a per-subscriber fee, ESPN could provide live streams of sporting events, similar to the ones available through ESPN 360,
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Digital Marketing: Why Google Wasn't Winning in China Anyway - Advertising Age - Digital - 0 views
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But it could be a face-saving way to exit a market where Google has made surprisingly little progress. Most research companies agree Google controls at most one-quarter of China's search market. That's hard to swallow, given Google's dominant position in the U.S. and many other major markets.
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Google has never been a big believer in traditional marketing anywhere, including China, while Baidu is an active advertiser in TV, out-of-home and digital media.
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"Their chief problem was the idea they could come into the market without doing marketing and expect to replicate the miraculous success they had enjoyed in the U.S. They did no marketing," said Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing-based consultant for Youku.com and the former of head of digital strategy at Ogilvy & Mather in China.
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Norman Horowitz: Hands Deeper In Your Pockets: NBC Universal and Comcast Merger - 0 views
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"They have the chutzpah to say that the new venture will boost quantity, quality, diversity and "local focus." I would think that "surely they jest" but, indeed, they are serious. They have filed with both the Justice Department, as well as the FCC. The $30 billion deal will also be examined on Capitol Hill in hearings beginning next week."
Comcast-NBC deal would test free TV - 1 views
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Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Comcast Corp.'s proposed takeover of NBC Universal would test the future of free, over-the-air television, U.S. Representative Henry Waxman said as Congress began considering the deal. "Many are concerned that this transaction could result in the best of NBC's programming being transitioned to a pay-TV service," Waxman, a California Democrat and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said today.
F.C.C. Considers Changes on Cable Fee Disputes - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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"Brian L. Roberts, the chairman and chief executive of Comcast, laid out 17 specific commitments that the company was willing to make to satisfy the concerns of the F.C.C., consumer groups and members of Congress, including a promise to expand the number of independent programmers it carries in each of the next three years. "
John Wells warns of media consolidation in testimony about Comcast-NBC deal | Company Town | Los Angeles Times - 0 views
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""Over the past several decades, our industry has consolidated from literally dozens of independent entrepreneurs and suppliers, including many writer-owners making innovative and groundbreaking programming to a handful of large media conglomerates most often controlling content from start to finish," Wells said. The result, he said, is that decisions on which shows go on television are based more often on money than quality. "
Updated: UMG To Launch U.S. Pricing Test - 0 views
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The Universal Music Group could rewrite U.S. music pricing when it tests a new frontline pricing structure, which is designed to get single CDs in stores at $10, or below. Beginning in the second quarter and continuing through most of the year, the company's Velocity program will test lower CD prices. Single CDs will have the suggested list prices of $10, $9, $8, $7 and $6.
FCC invites public comment on Comcast-NBC merger - 0 views
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"The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) called on Thursday for public comment on the proposed merger between cable operator Comcast Corp and broadcaster NBC Universal. The media industry regulator is seeking comments and petitions by a deadline of May 3 and expects to respond to comments by June 2. It has set a final date of June 17 to respond to any further responses or oppositions."
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