San Diego - Motorola (NYSE: MOT) announced on Monday that it has been selected by News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) Fox to provide the all of the equipment necessary to enable Fox to transition all its satellite program distribution to 100% high-definition delivery. The migration to Motorola technology, which will be deployed at the company's broadcast network, national cable channels, regional sports networks, Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, will commence in the first quarter of 2009.

Los Angeles - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) Fox Sports TV Group has announced plans to broadcast this year's college football Bowl Championship Series title game in 3D to a number of movie theaters, as well as to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Variety reports. The NFL is scheduled to make its first 3D broadcast of a game tomorrow to theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston.

Los Angeles - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) Fox television network plans to stream the premiere of its new series "Fringe," as well as the second season premiere episode of "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" to college campuses at the same time as their network debuts, Variety reports. The streams will only be available to computers originating from a .edu domain, and will be accompanied by behind-the-scenes footage and music videos.

New York - NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) and News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) Fox News Channel and Fox Television Stations have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Redlasso, an online service that offers clips of news broadcasts and other video and audio content to bloggers for republishing online, The Wall Street Journal reported.

London - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) Twentieth Century Fox Telecommunications International said on Tuesday that its primetime TV shows "24," "Bones" and "My Name is Earl" have been made available for purchase and download from Apple's iTunes Store in the U.K. Fox also plans to add episodes of "American Dad," "Prison Break," "Stacked," "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "The Riches" in the coming weeks."

Los Angeles - News Corp.'s Fox Broadcasting Company said on Monday that it has partnered with Passenger to power an online community for viewers of Fox drama, reality, comedy and animation progams. Gearerd toward viewers ages 18-49, Passenger's service provides social networking, community-building and collaboration technologies.

It is coming up on 2 years post my declaration that only a moron would buy Youtube and that Google was crazy for actually going through with it. In that period of time, while Youtube traffic has skyrocketed, they have been steadfast in their admission that they haven't been able to monetize Youtube's traffic in a profitable manner. Youtube has become the poster child for the old saying "we are losing money on every sale, but we will make it up in volume".

Hulu.com., the joint venture between Fox and NBC that provides streaming video content online, announced a deal this week that The Colbert Report and The Daily Show are now available through the site. Hulu.com came out of beta on March 15 and has seen a steady share of US Internet traffic since, as illustrated in the following chart.

New York - "American Idol" winner David Cook saw a record 14 of his songs enter the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart today, including the No. 1 "The Time of My Life," which sold 236,000 downloads.

New York - Redlasso, a Web service that lets bloggers search national and local TV and radio broadcasts and create clips for posting to their websites, has received a cease and desist notice from broadcasters NBC (NYSE: GE), CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Fox (NYSE: NWS), who allege the site is violating their copyrights, Reuters reported.

Los Angeles - A 2006 album from current "American Idol" contestant David Cook that was the top-seller at Amazon.com's (NASD: AMZN) MP3 store over the weekend, besting even Mariah Carey's new album, has now been removed from the store, FoxNews.com reported. Whether the album was taken down by Cook himself or at the behest of someone else remains a mystery.

Cambridge, Mass. - JumpTap, a provider of mobile search and advertising services, announced on Tuesday deals with Fox Mobile Entertainment (NYSE: NWS) and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) to provide mobile ad services across a range of sites. The company will sell available WAP ad inventory for mobile sites associated with Fox, FX, Speed, National Geographic Channel and Fox Reality Channel, in addition to NBC Entertainment, NBC Sports, Universal Pictures, USA Network, SCI FI Channel and Bravo.

Cupertino, Calif. - Apple (NASD: AAPL) said on Tuesday that it will begin offering exclusive audio and video downloads of every performance from the top 24 semifinalists on Fox's "American Idol." Song versions will cost $0.99 each, while videos will sell for $1.99 each. Fans will also be able to subscribe to automatic downloads of performances from favorite contestants the day after they after their on-air broadcast.