CBS inks online content distribution deals
CSI, Survivor, Late Night With David Letterman, news, sports shows, and more will all be offered online.
CBS today agreed to deals with Joost, Microsoft, ComCast, and Time Warner to begin allowing them to provide CBS content online in exchange for a share of all advertising revenue generated.
Some of the other companies involved in the [...]
Spitzer says CBS radio to pay $2 mln to settle payola charges
CBS Radio, a unit of CBS Corp (CBS) and NY Attorney General Elliot Spitzer reached a settlement involving the broadcasting of certain songs in return for rewards.
Under terms of the agreement, CBS Radio will make up to a $2 million payment to New York non-profit entities to fund music education and appreciation programs.
CBS Radio also [...]
Yahoo, CBS in local video news deal
Local news video from 16 CBS-owned television stations will be available on online portal Yahoo Inc., the companies said on Monday.
The companies will share revenue from advertising from the video clips. The deal was scheduled to begin Tuesday, the companies said.
The deal comes amid booming interest in watching video clips online and follows rival Google [...]
YouTube strikes content deals
YouTube Inc struck deals with CBS and two major music labels Monday as the popular video-sharing Web site races to befriend content providers and avoid copyright-infringement lawsuits.
The separate agreements with CBS, Vivendi’s Universal Music Group and Sony BMG Music Entertainment come less than a month after YouTube reached a deal with Warner Music Group Corp. [...]
CBS wants to buy the next YouTube, not YouTube
CBS Corp is interested in spotting the next big phenomenon in user-generated programming over the Internet, not buying market leader YouTube, Chief Executive Leslie Moonves said on Thursday.
“It is obviously phenomenally successful,” Moonves said of YouTube. “I doubt we would buy it at this point. Maybe we would look for the next YouTube, the next [...]
CBS to simulcast Katie Couric online
CBS said Thursday it will become the first network to simulcast its evening news broadcast online, starting on the night of Katie Couric’s debut as anchor Sept. 5.
All of the broadcast networks have aggressively pushed onto the Web over the past two years to interest more people in what they do, particularly at a time [...]
Fox chief blasts FCC’s “murky” indecency rules
As Fox, CBS and NBC are locked in a legal battle with the Federal Communications Commission over harsh new indecency rules, Fox’s entertainment president has accused the agency of creating “a chilling effect on creativity.”
The TV industry is particularly worried about violating decency standards because fines are now $325,000 per incident, 10 times the penalties [...]
CBS News to sell vintage clips on Web
CBS News for the first time is opening its decades of archives to the public through a deal with online retailers CustomFlix and Amazon.com.
The deal initially will offer access to dozens of full-length reports and segments from the “CBS Evening News” and “60 Minutes” that have aired since 2000. But in the future, CBS News [...]
