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NBC Universal to Offer Network, Cable Shows on Comcast Video-on-Demand

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 30, 2006 - 9:23am.
Philadelphia - Comcast, the nation's largest cable TV provider, announced on Thursday an agreement with NBC Universal, to offer over a dozen of the company's most popular network and cable programs through Comcast's video-on-demand service. NBC primetime programs will become available as early as midnight following their on-air broadcast for 99 cents, while late-night and daytime programs will be available at no additional charge. NBC Universal programs offered on Comcast VOD will include NBC's "Law & Order," "The Office," "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"; USA Network's "Monk"; Sci-Fi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica"; and Bravo's "Celebrity Poker Showdown". Comcast said that its 21.4 million cable subscribers have viewed more than 2 billion video-on-demand programs since the company launched the service in 2004.
tags: NBC Universal | Offer | Network | Cable Show | Comcast Video | on-Demand |

Report: Cable Firm, Networks in Talks on Top 20 TV Show VOD Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 27, 2006 - 11:58am.
New York - The New York Times reported on Monday that Time Warner Cable, the nation's second-largest cable TV provider, is in talks with the major TV networks on a service that would offer the top 20 network TV shows as rated by Nielsen through a video-on-demand service. Time Warner Cable spokesman Mark Harrad confirmed that talks on the service were underway with CBS, ABC, Fox and NBC, but still in early stages. "There have been high-level discussions, but no definitive decisions or deals," Harrad told The Times. The service would offer a changing lineup of the current top 20 TV shows, to be available for an as-yet-undetermined length of time, through an on-demand service that would cost Time Warner Cable subscribers an extra $10 per month. Pay-TV providers such as HBO and Showtime already offer much of their original programming on-demand, as well as through show-specific subscription video-on-demand services; the networks have also experimented with offering downloads of popular shows for sale through Apple's iTunes Store. The major impediment to the service appears to be determining how the subscription fees would be divvied amongst the cable operator and various networks.
tags: Report | Network | Talks | Cable Firm | Top 20 TV Show | VOD Service |

Bebo is Top Social Networking Site in the U.K.

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 22, 2006 - 5:12am.
San Francisco - Social networking site Bebo announced on Wednesday that it ranked as the largest such site in the U.K. in December, according to data from Nielsen/NetRatings, outpacing MySpace for the first time in the region with a total of 1.5 million unique visitors. San Francisco-based Bebo was launched in July 2005 and has since attracted more than 22 million registered members. In addition to standard social network features, Bebo recently partnered with Skype to offer free instant messaging, voice and video calling services.
tags: Bebo | Website | U.K | Social | Network |

Sony Says 5 Million PlayStations, 400,000 Network Adapters Sold In '02

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 9, 2003 - 7:11am.
Foster City, Calif. -- Sony Computer Entertainment America on Thursday announced that it sold 5 million PlayStation video game consoles in 2002, a 25 percent increase over sales for 2001. More than 4 million of these were sold during November and December 2002, accounting for $2 billion in revenue and representing a 46 percent increase over 2001 PlayStation 2 holiday sales. As of November 2002, 45 million PlayStation 2 games had been sold worldwide, according to data from NPDFunworld. Sony also said that sales of its Network Adapter, which enables online gaming for PlayStation 2, reached 400,000 units as of Dec. 30, nearly doubling Microsoft's reported sales of 250,000 Xbox Live kits. http://www.us.playstation.com
tags: Sony | Network | PlayStations | Adapters |