Tuesday, December 9, 2014
The cyber-attackers who broke down Sony Pictures’ digital doors stole five movies and uploaded them to piracy sites — a move that could cost the studio millions of dollars in lost box of…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMFriday, December 5, 2014
NBC’s broadcast of “Peter Pan Live” Thursday drew a huge social-media following — well above the Peacock’s “Sound of Music” broadcast last year and …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:19PMMonday, October 6, 2014
Move over, Elsa. Apple’s iPad is the No. 1 brand among children 6-12, beating out Disney, Nickelodeon, YouTube, Netflix, Toys ‘R’ Us, McDonald’s, and multiple snack-f…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PMMonday, September 1, 2014
Jim Louderback, g.m. of Discovery Digital Networks, is leaving the company two years after the cable programmer bought web-video startup Revision3, where he had been CEO. Louderback announc…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:13PMWednesday, August 27, 2014
Time Warner Cable’s broadband and video-on-demand services were knocked offline for more than two hours Wednesday, with the cable company saying most services were restored by 6 a.m. E…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:52AMTuesday, August 5, 2014
Twitch, the videogame-streaming service that Google is in the process of acquiring for $1 billion, has pulled the plug on Justin.tv. Justin.tv, a website designed for users to “lifecast�…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:31PMMonday, June 30, 2014
Yo, Adrian! The entire “Rocky” film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa is scheduled to expire from Netflix’s streaming service as of July 1, 2014, accord…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:18PMTuesday, June 17, 2014
YouTube is playing hardball with music companies: The Internet video service this week will begin removing videos from indie labels that have refused to agree to the terms for its music-subs…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:22AMThursday, May 8, 2014
Endemol Beyond USA, the digital multichannel network unit of global TV production firm Endemol, hired former Disney executive and entrepreneur David B. Williams as chief content and tech…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:58PMWednesday, May 7, 2014
Producers of Tony-nominated musical “If/Then” starring Idina Menzel are working with Mashable on a digital-marketing campaign, which the parties tout as the first such collaborat…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:19PMFriday, April 25, 2014
Cable TV loves Robin Williams in old-lady drag. 20th Century Fox’s “Mrs. Doubtfire” was the most-aired pic on basic cable in 2013. The 1993 comedy was played 66 times across five netwo…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:54AMFriday, March 28, 2014
Mr. Moviefone is about to get disconnected. AOL’s Moviefone dial-in lines will no longer be available after next Monday, March 31, according to a recording on the service. The phone nu…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:27PMMonday, March 24, 2014
With Disney’s blockbuster $500 million-plus deal to buy Maker Studios, look for dealmaking activity in the online multichannel network space to continue apace. MCNs are “now top-…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30PMThursday, March 6, 2014
Disney Interactive is eliminating 700 jobs, about 26% of its total workforce, as the Mouse House’s games and Internet division struggles to achieve profitability. The cuts were expecte…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PMTuesday, March 4, 2014
AwesomenessTV, DreamWorks Animation’s digital division, has hired Walt Disney Studios marketing exec T.J. Marchetti as chief marketing officer. Marchetti will be in charge of all Aweso…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:52PMMonday, February 3, 2014
NBCUniversal is trying to transplant some Silicon Valley culture to the East Coast. The media company Monday announced the launch of the 63,000-sq.-ft. NBCU Technology Center in Englewood Cl…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:01AMFriday, January 31, 2014
Jacob Shwirtz, formerly head of social TV at Viacom’s MTV Networks, will join Endemol North America as chief social media officer for its Internet-video division, Endemol Beyond USA. …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:29PMTuesday, January 21, 2014
A man who was wearing a Google Glass device during a showing of “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” last Saturday at an AMC Theatres location in Columbus, Ohio, was questioned by agents …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:58PMMonday, January 13, 2014
NBCUniversal’s news division has made a minority investment in NowThis News, styled as a next-generation mobile-social video news provider, in a bid to better reach millennials and oth…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:20AMMonday, December 23, 2013
The Walt Disney Co. elected Jack Dorsey, chairman of Twitter and CEO of Square, as an independent director to its board effective immediately. Disney chairman and CEO Robert Iger called the …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:12PMThursday, September 26, 2013
Broadway Video Entertainment’s “Saturday Night Live” has set up shop on YouTube — its first official channel on the world’s biggest Internet video destination &…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:59AMWednesday, August 14, 2013
After the New York Times’ website went down Wednesday morning, the newspaper began posting breaking news to its Facebook page and Twitter while attempting to fix the issue. According t…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:25PM 
