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  • Zucker on NBC: First and foremost, we're a cable network company

    Putting aside the question of whether he will ever want to take on Jon Stewart on Comedy Central on behalf of NBC, NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker also had these comments to make on the state of its...

    Blog posts | March 18, 2009 7:00am PDT

  • Top TV programs by audience in 2008

    Rank Telecasts Network Date Aired % of Homes in U.S. (Rating) 1 FOX SUPER BOWL XLII FOX 02/03/2008 43.1 2 FOX SUPER BOWL POST GAME FOX 02/03/2008 30.1 3 FOX NFC CHAMPIONSHIP FOX 01/20/2008...

    Blog posts | January 11, 2009 9:49am PST

  • George Clooney delivered our biggest controversy in 2008

    What if you knew you were carrying a future commitment-phobe? Would you terminate the pregnancy? Tickled with the mashup, I hit the publish button. I regret that now.

    Blog posts | December 29, 2008 5:53am PST

  • Top TV shows with product placement activity

    Rank Program Network Total # of Occurrences 1 BIGGEST LOSER NBC 6248 2 AMERICAN IDOL FOX 4636 3 EXTREME MAKEOVER HOME EDITION ABC 3371 4 AMERICAS TOUGHEST JOBS NBC 2807 5 ONE TREE HILL...

    Blog posts | December 27, 2008 10:28am PST

  • Microsoft loses MLB but keeps swinging

    ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz talks about the recent announcement by Major League Baseball to drop Microsoft’s Silverlight service for Adobe's Flash player. Diaz says it's a setback for Microsoft...

    Videos | November 21, 2008 1:55pm PST

  • Press "Upload" on that Video: "Point Is Not To Bust People,'' Says NBC

    The point is to actually make fair use  -- fair and creative use -- use of someone's professionally produced content, if you're going to post a video online. The executive vice president and...

    Blog posts | November 12, 2008 2:18pm PST

  • Watch tonight's debate on your mobile; just not on the iPhone

    If you are on the go tonight and don't want to miss the Vice Presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin you can watch it on your mobile phone. But only if it's on Verizon. If you're a...

    Blog posts | October 2, 2008 1:11pm PDT

  • NBC To Internet: TV Is Still King

    If NBC had to choose a single platform on which to base its business for the next five years, it wouldn't be the Internet or mobile phones. "Sorry, guys, it would be television,'' the president of...

    Blog posts | September 22, 2008 12:47pm PDT

  • Free NBC television shows in HD

    NBC is offering one free High Definition episode of each  a dozen different television shows. They're great to show off of the HD quality of the shows and a good way to try before you buy. You...

    Blog posts | September 11, 2008 10:28am PDT

  • Adobe and NBC to provide live streaming of NFL games

    Adobe just announced that the NFL is going to use Flash to deliver live, online streaming video for NBC Sunday and Thursday night football games. You can go watch the games on NBCSports.com right...

    Blog posts | September 4, 2008 4:10pm PDT

  • Google brings election mobile as reporters become irrelevant

    Worried you’ll miss it the second John McCain announces his veep choice? After all, the GOP isn’t offering a text-message alert the way Obama did. (Not that that worked so well.) Well,...

    Blog posts | August 25, 2008 8:23am PDT

  • CISCO: Why the Olympics didn’t melt NBC

    Yesterday I posted about how Limelight Networks was used as the primary caching content provider for NBCOlympics.com and lifted a huge burden off on the public Internet by leveraging relationships...

    Blog posts | August 18, 2008 7:15pm PDT

  • Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet

    I admit it, even I was skeptical. When I received the first demonstration of the Silverlight plugin and the NBCOlympics.com web site back in March of this year at the 2008 Microsoft Technology...

    Blog posts | August 17, 2008 8:30am PDT

  • It's just a TPS Report: How to step away from your Desk Rage

    Much of the advice on handling desk rage might, at best, be hard to apply and at its worst, entirely misses the mark. Listen instead to the IT Grind's Three No-Nonsense Steps to Stepping Away From...

    Blog posts | August 15, 2008 9:33am PDT

  • Olympic online gold

    Thanks to Microsoft's Silverlight streaming video software, more people than ever before are tuning in...err...logging on to watch the Olympics online. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports on the popularity...

    Videos | August 15, 2008 8:24am PDT

  • Olympics Victor: NBC, Over YouTube

    So, NBC is "only" delivering 3.4 million or so streams of Olympic video from its Web site. That still beats YouTube's traffic, according to our source in the cloud. Since the Olympics began on...

    Blog posts | August 13, 2008 12:30pm PDT

  • Numbers on the NBC's Silverlight Olympic Coverage

    Tom Steinert-Threlkeld has a great rundown of the numbers behind this weekend's Olympic coverage. The highest day of coverage was on August 10th and it saw about 3.42 million video streams with...

    Blog posts | August 11, 2008 11:05am PDT

  • Will the Olympics melt the Internet?

    Okay, sky-is-falling fans and network neutrality proponents: We’re about to find out whether the Internet can – or will – break down under the strain of mass consumption of streaming video....

    Blog posts | August 7, 2008 9:24am PDT

  • Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBC

    If you’re Jeff Bewkes, the chief executive of Time Warner, you might get pleasantly surprised over the next couple weeks at the number of your Time Warner Cable subscribers who use their...

    Blog posts | August 7, 2008 9:16am PDT

  • Microsoft as the gate keeper of video analytics

    There's a post over on TechCrunchIT about how NBC is going to use Silverlight and the Olympics to do some audience research around how people consume digital media. Basically NBC has a ton of...

    Blog posts | July 14, 2008 11:57am PDT

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