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And the walls came tumbling down

Is the NBCU-Comcast deal really about a new business model for cable?

By Tom MacIsaac, CEO, ExtendMedia

That cracking sound you hear is the walls of the clubby world of cable beginning to crumble. Everything in the media world -- ­ especially the world of media distribution --has changed as a result of Comcast (CMCSA) taking control of GE's (GE) NBCUniversal.

Many people think this is a deal to preserve the status quo MORE

Internet TV: When, dammit?

Hulu touts about TV anytime, anywhere. But hooking your TV to the Net? Crazy talk!

I had an epiphany early last year when I visited Hulu for an article David Kirkpatrick and I were writing about the unexpectedly successful young venture.

Watching TV shows on Hulu was such a pleasant experience with Hulu that the company should encourage users to connect their PCs to televisions. Technologically it's not a difficult thing to MORE

How SAP is facing the cloud challenge

more about "How SAP is facing the cloud challenge", posted with vodpod

On NBC's Press: Here (airing 8/23), Fortune's Jon Fortt, TechCrunch's Sarah Lacy and host Scott McGrew chat with SAP executive board member John Schwarz. For all four video segments online now, check out video on the Press: Here website. (SAP) (IBM) (ORCL) (CRM) (MSFT)

Online video sites fizzle

Startups Joost and Veoh try to retool while network-backed Hulu cruises.

The Web video shakeout has begun. Hulu, a venture of NBC, ABC, and Fox, is growing nicely, aided in part by a slick marketing campaign using, of all things, television ads starring Alec Baldwin. But a slew of smaller sites are starting to reformulate their strategies in the hope of surviving.

Joost, which was started by the founders of Skype Technologies, MORE

The Ben and Barry Show 3.0

The departure of outsized NBC chief Ben Silverman is the third time that the producer will team up with IAC's Diller.

By Richard Siklos, Editor at large

Ben Silverman's  departure from NBC this morning comes as no huge surprise: he was an out-of-the-box choice to head programming at major broadcast network and his two-year-plus tenure was marked by lots of attention on Silverman's outsized persona but little yet in terms of new MORE

A lot riding on Leno

Hulu goes live

By Michal Lev-Ram

After over a year of development, testing and refining, online video service Hulu launches Wednesday and viewers will get to chance to see if it lives up to all the hullabaloo.

A joint venture between News Corp.'s Fox (NWS) and NBC Universal (GE), Los Angeles-based Hulu says it aims to bring together the widest selection of free, "premium" videos on the Web. But unlike Google's YouTube (GOOG), where unauthorized MORE

iTunes video: Zucker walks, Murdoch talks

Two developments in the wake of NBC Universal's (GE) weekend exit from Apple's (AAPL) iTunes store:

Ruport Murdoch's Twentieth Century Fox (NWS) is reported to be "actively negotiating" with Apple to put new releases and catalog titles on iTunes beginning in early 2008. According to Rich Greenfield at Pali Research (link; activation required) several things have changed to break the deadlock, including growing levels of movie piracy and new flexibility on MORE

NBC pulls its TV shows from Apple iTunes

No more ad-free episodes of The Office, 30 Rock, Scrubs or Friday Night Lights for $1.99 each.

As promised, NBC (GE) removed all its content and that of its affiliates from the iTunes Store over the weekend after its contract with Apple (AAPL) expired.

That means no shows on iTunes from Bravo, mun2, NBC, NBC News, CNBC, NBC Sports, Sci Fi, Sleuth, Telemundo or USA Network. (Some shows aired on NBC but MORE

NBC vs. Apple: SNL's iPhone Sketch

For a simple comedy sketch, the Saturday Night Live takeoff on the new "black backdrop" Apple (AAPL) iPhone ads carries an awful lot of corporate baggage.

The bit aired Nov. 3 and the video was posted the next day on YouTube -- and enthusiastically linked to by TechCrunch.

It's funny enough, with a clever set-up for the "pinch it" gesture. But by Sunday afternoon, NBC Universal (GE) had scrubbed the MORE