Vietnam provider drops foreign news TV channels
A Vietnamese satellite TV company stopped airing international channels including BBC and CNN on Thursday, citing a law that foreign governments have ...

TV-over-Internet service hits Atlanta next month
Aereo, the startup that offers live television broadcasts over the Internet starting at $8 a month, said it will start service in the Atlanta market ...
CBS holds onto its ratings lead in prime time
With broadcast networks unveiling their new schedules, the television industry is focused on potential ratings hits next season. But TV programming ...

Jodi Arias says she prefers death penalty
Jodi Arias spent 18 days on the stand sharing intimate, emotional and oftentimes X-rated details of her life before a rapt television and online ...

Jurors deliberate Arias fate amid spectacle
It has become a real-life soap opera watched by people around the world and dozens of fanatics who camp out on a Phoenix sidewalk in the middle of the ...
TV-over-Internet service Aereo expands to Boston
Aereo, the television-over-the-Internet service that is threatening the broadcast and cable TV industries, is expanding to Boston on May 15.
CBS buys small stake in mobile TV startup Syncbak
CBS Corp. says it has made a minority investment in Syncbak, a technology company that allows mobile device users to pick up signals from their local ...

Boston drama grips television networks
So much for scripted police procedurals. The marathon manhunt in Boston was a real-life drama that kept the biggest television networks and their ...
Contract gives NBC Notre Dame rights through 2025
NBC Sports Group announced a 10-year contract extension to televise Notre Dame football games Thursday, doubling the length of its previous agreement.

Provo, Utah, next city for ultra-fast Google Fiber
Google will take over a troubled municipal fiber-optic system and make Provo, Utah, the third city to get its high-speed Internet service via ...
EU clears $22.6bn cable operator, pay TV takeover
The European Union's antitrust body has cleared the 17.2 billion euros ($22.6 billion) takeover of Britain's Virgin Media by U.S. cable TV operator ...

Austin next city for ultra-fast Google Fiber
Google Inc. picked tech-savvy Austin on Tuesday as the next city where the search giant will wire homes with ultra-fast Internet connections, but did ...
FX network to start a younger-skewing channel, FXX
FX is spinning off a new cable network aimed at young adult viewers. Launching Sept. 2, FXX will join big brother FX along with the movie-oriented FXM

Pivot, network for millennials, tries to change TV
Pivot is the name of a TV channel aimed at 15-to-34-year-olds who want to change the world. In the process, they could help Pivot change the ...

Carlos Slim's company wins Olympic TV rights
Mexican magnate Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, secured the Latin American broadcast rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics on Friday. The IOC ...
Charter refuses ads for TV antenna maker
A TV antenna maker wanted to use the competition's own medium — cable TV — for its anti-cable message. Now, officials at Antennas Direct say Charter ...

Gore sued over Current TV sale to Al-Jazeera
A television consultant claims that former Vice President Al Gore and others at Current TV stole his idea to sell the struggling network to Al-Jazeera

New Fox sports network to debut in August
Fox proved television was ready for a fourth major network, and Fox News took on CNN. The company wants to remind everyone of its record as it ...

Taiwan media kingpin pushes hard on China ties
Appearing last year before Taiwanese regulators, billionaire media magnate Tsai Eng-meng appeared perplexed over a decision to fine his flagship ...
Nielsen to begin counting broadband viewing homes
The company that measures television viewership said Thursday it will soon begin counting people who watch programming through broadband in addition ...

Jerry Buss, Lakers' flamboyant owner, dies at 80
Jerry Buss had been a chemist and a mathematician long before he bought the Los Angeles Lakers in 1979. The self-made millionaire with a head for ...

Cable TV company has gone from Tupelo to 30 Rock
Comcast Corp. dates back to 1963, when businessman Ralph Roberts got into the cable TV business in its early days. He spent $500,000 for American ...
Intel working on TV set-top box to replace cable
Intel Corp. said Tuesday that it will sell a set-top box that brings Internet-delivered movies and shows to a TV set this year. Erik Huggers, general ...
NBCUniversal gathers cable channels under 1 exec
NBCUniversal has united its cable channels under the command of long-time executive Bonnie Hammer, leaving Lauren Zalaznick, who previously controlled ...

Gore hits corporate media, defends Current TV sale
Al Gore, who takes aim in his new book at the corporate media for "suffocating the free flow of ideas," on Tuesday defended the sale of his television ...