MultiBrain’s game is Web advertainment
Is Hollywood warming up to brick-and-mortar companies bankrolling advertainment on the Internet?
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Review: ‘BlankTV’
Punk is alive and well. Just go to Blank TV.com and feast your eyes on some totally out-there videos by bands that hardly get rotation on MTV.
With new focus, Hitplay shuffles lineup
Hitplay Media has upped Brian Newton to chief financial officer, Matt Graczyk as general manager of operations and Kent Samoorian as controller, as the former entertainment Netcaster focuses more on…
Scour resurrection
CenterSpan Communications, the company that bought Scour and its assets for $9 million in cash and common stock late last year in bankruptcy court, is beta testing the new file-swapping site.
Elvis lives on
Despite recent layoffs and the elimination of Entertaindom, Warner Bros. Online has sent the message that they are still interested in the Web with its "Road to Graceland" animated trilogy.
Paxson plots deal
Broadcasting topper Lowell "Bud" Paxson revealed Wednesday that he is spearheading a campaign for 136 TV stations to cut a lucrative deal with the wireless industry and vacate TV channels 60-69…
Napster chill thrills pic biz
Behind his steely calm, Motion Picture Assn. of America prexy Jack Valenti churned with concern. Why was a federal appeals court taking so long to decide if Napster violated copyright laws?
Bricks beat clicks in retail war
It was boom-or-bust time for online retailers in 2000, and traditional retail outlets laid the smackdown on the digital world. Retailers such as Wal-Mart and Toys-R-Us took their strong offline…
Keeping broadband hope alive
Last year, optimistic estimations of broadband adoption encouraged online entertainment companies to invest millions of dollars in Web programming. Despite consumer interest in high-speed…
Webcasts for everyone
Network bosses received a chilling warning at the Monte Carlo TV mart Tuesday: In the Internet age, anybody can be a broadcaster.
