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  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube NBCU and private equity firms BAIN CAPITAL and BLACKSTONE GROUP have bid $3.5 billion for the WEATHER CHANNEL. The bid, placed a week after the deadline to submit an offer, could be challenged by TIME WARNER, who is reportedly set Continue Reading →

If you have trouble viewing the above video, please click here to view MediaBytes on YouTube. MICROSOFT’s recent search ads proposal would split YAHOO’s assets and fracture the company. The deal would break up Yahoo’s Asian assets and give Microsoft a minority share in what was left of Yahoo. Yahoo executives are weary of the Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube CABLEVISION now officially owns a 97% share of NEWSDAY. Despite posting a wider net loss for the quarter, Charles Dolan has gone out and made two purchases tolling roughly $1.1 billion dollars ($500 million for Sundance Channel and $632 million Continue Reading →

APPLE unveiled an all new lineup of iPods yesterday – including revamped shuffles and a new, squarish Nano. The company also released the iPod Touch, which is essentially a phone-less iPhone with WiFi, and announced an unexpected, massive $200 price cut for the iPhone. The iPhone and iPod Touch will be able to purchase songs Continue Reading →

 GOOGLE is working on a “next generation” social-networking site called SocialStream. SocialStream aggregates many different online networks, allowing a user to manage their many online affiliations. The service has the ability to post photos and comments to multiple blogs and photo-sharing sites with one click. SocialStream is part of a Google-sponsored project at Carnegie Continue Reading →

APPLE is bringing YouTube support to AppleTV in June. Select videos will be added at first, with the entire YouTube catalog available by fall. No advertising will be seen initially. THE OXYGEN NETWORK is planning to sell ad time via the THE ONLINE MEDIA EXCHANGE. Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Home Depot will purchase time through the Continue Reading →

This article by Ted Hearn was passed around my group today.  I know there is a consumer advocate in here somewhere …   An array of technology firms, including major computer and TV-set manufacturers, is pressing federal regulators to enforce new set-top-box rules against the cable industry. Cable operators are resisting implementation of a Federal Continue Reading →