NEW YORK — Rightster, the video distribution and monetization company, said Donagh O’Malley has been hired as Global VP Platforms and General Manager US.
Based in New York, Donagh brings 15 years of leadership in the digital media industry to Rightster, spanning music, television and online markets. Read more
Hoping to keep up with the likes of the ABC/ESPN, NBC/NBC Sports Network as well as CBS/CBS Sports Network pairings, FOX plans to flip the current motorsports and automotive channel into its own general sports cable network. Read more
As a weekday video designed for our Google TV app and future connected-TV experiences, viewers can choose to get a full digest of the news by watching the entire show, which runs roughly 15 minutes, or skipping directly to the stories that matter most to them. Read more
Now Jason Antoon, Mary Birdsong, Greg Cromer, Tricia O’Kelley, and Romy Rosemont come together on YouTube for Bitter, Party Of 5. Here’s Episode 1 where they start out calling NBC Entertainment honcho Bob Greenblatt’s office to learn whether their pilot was picked up
Frazier Moore, AP’s TV writer, profiles new YouTube channel that debuts Tuesday:
TakePart TV, launching Tuesday, is a digital home for what the network has termed “clever, eye-opening and optimistic content around big issues that face our planet.” The target audience is millennials ranging from teenage to 30. Read more
The clip, which sees the replacement weather guy forecast a low temp of -200 and a potential “thunderblizzard hurricane,” has graced the home pages of everything from Yahoo.com to MSN.com and Deadspin.com, and Poss says it turned up on ESPN and CNN as well, along with countless other media outlets. Read more
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 24 (Reuters) – U.S. TV network ABC will in October start broadcasting a cooking show that began as part of YouTube’s “Original Channels” initiative, the first such deal to take a YouTube-funded program to national TV. Read more
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) will be working with the Ovation Network – a cable-television network that serves 51 million homes in the U.S. – to air all seven episodes of “A Chance to Dance,” a new reality show that follows a couple of prominent British choreographers, Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, as they build an American dance company – including auditions, selections and training – in 28 days. Read more
In an attempt to be webbier, it has added all these interactive doodads: Green Rooms and hangouts and comments and video comments. But, unfortunately, those Internet things are what make it something ADD web people will hate — who wants to spend that much time on a website to learn about a news story one could read (or skim) on the Huffington Post website. Read more