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Is Dish Network the Most Hated Company in Television?
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 12:27pm
Three of the four major TV networks have sued Dish Network for copyright infringement. There's just one catch -- Dish hasn't copied a thing. Rather, the satellite service provider has gotten into trouble for giving consumers an easy way to skip commercials. From a business standpoint, Dish's (...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 12:29pm
Britney Spears & Howard Stern: What do New Celebrity Judges Mean for Talent TV?
Television networks are shelling out the big bucks to bring the grandest names in the entertainment industry to judge their celebrated talent shows. Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA) America's Got Talent on NBC has decided to bring in Howard Stern to choose the fate of the country's freshest meat, while...
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Friday, October 28, 2011 - 3:46pm
Hulu's Latest Deal is One Vampire Fans Can Really Sink Their Teeth Into
Fans of The Vampire Diaries and other CW shows will soon have a reliable source for next-day video streams. In a Hulu blog post penned by Andy Forssell, SVP of Content and Distribution, the growing video site has announced that it has struck a five-year deal with The CW. Formed after UPN and The...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 9:45am
YouTube to Finally Receive Original, High-Quality, Non-User-Generated Content?
After a mountain of speculation, the Wall Street Journal is providing us with MORE speculation! Last March, word started to spread that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) was looking for Hollywood talent to bring fresh and original (and presumably scripted) content to YouTube. The news quickly died down after...
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FOX Business Network's Eric Bolling Clarifies Segment
Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 6:06pm
We noticed Fox Business Network's Eric Bolling issued a correction on his show's website today. The correction addressed a segment he did this past Tuesday on the Center for American Progress' latest report about Islamophobia titled “Fear, Inc.”. During the segment, Bolling inaccurately...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 12:41pm
Calling Warren Buffett A Socialist Is Ludicrous
Of course, it was inevitable. As soon as Warren Buffett came out and publically said that the super-rich, like himself, should be taxed more, knee-jerk, reactionary right wingers were going to throw the “S” word at him. It is a laughable notion – one of the most successful traders in history wants...
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Friday, July 1, 2011 - 2:58pm
Why the World Will End if Google Buys Hulu
R.E.M. once sang about this moment. “It's the end of the world as we know it,” Michael Stipe sang loudly. He repeated those words a few hundred times, just be certain that we got the message. Today, we're getting that message loud and clear. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) wants to take Hulu off the hands...
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Will Super 8 Be "Super" at the Box Office?
Friday, June 10, 2011 - 2:23pm
The long-awaited JJ Abrams epic* finally hits theaters today. With teaser trailers running since early last year and numerous full-length trailers and TV spots airing for the past six months, Super 8 is one of the most hyped films of the summer movie season. But it is the writer and director (JJ...
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NYSE Holders are Demanding that Niederauer Study the Nasdaq Bid -FOX (NYX)
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 1:45pmNYSE (NYSE: NYX) holders are demanding that Niederauer study the Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) bid reports Fox news.
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Monday, March 28, 2011 - 1:44pm
Google-Eyed For Hollywood (GOOG)
It seems that YouTube users' homegrown shtick is no longer enough for Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). According to the Financial Times, the company is prepared to pay “cash advances against future advertising revenues in return for lending their name to these channels and overseeing the content.” That's an...
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