Media Industries Project - Carsey Wolf Center

"Online video ads are seen as the fastest-growing area in advertising, aided by their ability to show off products in a feature-rich medium and zero in on a target audience. Traditional television is already feeling the pain; 2009 was "the worst ad year since 2001" for broadcasters."-I Want Media.com

"ABC News content is being added to Hulu on its own dedicated channel. Short and long form programming from Good Morning America, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, Nightline, This Week, 20/20 and Primetime will be available, as well as select programming from ABC News' digital channel ABC News Now."

"Escalating its efforts to crack down on DVD piracy, Twentieth Century Fox on Thursday filed six lawsuits against several dozen people that the company said had sold DVDs containing an unfinished version of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and other counterfeit Fox titles."

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.

Super Bowl advertisers are using social media like Facebook and Twitter to build hype for their advertisements (not necessarily the game itself, although a larger audience for the game would also mean a larger audience for the commercials during the game).

The Authors Guild agreed to a controversial settlement with Google because it feared repeating the mistakes that the music industry has made in dealing with digital works.

News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch says that the debate over the preeminence and importance of content in the digital era is over. "Content is not only king. It is the emperor of all things electronic," he said, adding that consumers are ready to pay for quality content."

The Walt Disney Company has been quietly shopping what remains of its Miramax film unit and has attracted seven to 10 interested bidders, according to a mergers and acquisitions expert with knowledge of the process.

Thanks to Fox News, strong DVD sales and a better performance from television stations, News Corp. reported a 10% jump in fiscal second-quarter revenue to $8.7 billion and big jumps in operating income at its movie and television studio and cable television group.

News Corp. the media conglomerate run by the billionaire, said second-quarter earnings got a boost from Avatar ticket sales and its broadcast TV division. The New York-based company reported net income of $254 million, or 10 cents per share, up from a net loss of $6.4 billion, or $2.45 cents per share in the same period a year prior, when the company was forced to write down the value of its assets.

Clear Channel has lost in appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals to challenge a 70 year old billboard zoning regulation in New York.

Though negotiations have not begun yet, it's quite possible Fox could attempt to lure in Conan to compete against CBS and NBC for late night ratings.

A News Corp. women's network is in the early stages of planning as top female journalists met to discuss some of the details.

Clear Channel has created mobile "roadblocks" with advertising displays on your mobile device while it is loading applications.

If they Comcast-NBC merger goes through, the conglomerate could gain serious clout in negotiations between local station owners and local cable systems for the right to retransmit broadcast tv signals.

"Apple's iPad is due in late March, pending FCC approval, and on the FCC's official broadband blog, Director/Scenario Planning Phil Bellaria and Wireless Bureau Deputy Chief John Leibovitz say there may be trouble ahead if the device drives up demand for mobile broadband. They write that the iPad announcement on January 27 "set off a new round of reports of networks overburdened by a data flow they were not build to handle," saying the problems are reminiscent of the outages AOL users ran into when the then-dialup service went to unlimited use in 1996 -- problems that persisted for months."

Google's plan to digitize the world's books into a combination research library and bookstore has hit another snag, in the form of a U.S. Justice Department statement that "despite substantial progress made, issues remain" with the proposed settlement agreement of the class action lawsuit The Authors Guild Inc. et al. v. Google Inc.

Great stats on media industries (TV, phones, internet, video games)