Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on video”, with a view that even properties that come from a print tradition should be producing more video content than they are today.

Hispanics, according to Nielsen, have the second-highest penetration of smartphone usage among U.S. ethnic groups, and today brings news of a news app specifically targeting that demographic: Univision is launching its first news app, “Noticias Univision,” based on the broadcaster’s TV brand and website of the same name. It is…

News Corp-controlled pay-TV firm BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is buying itself a foothold in the looming social TV field by acquiring 10 percent of the startup Zeebox for a sum that is “double-digit millions” in both pounds and dollars.

When the News Corporation-controlled UK satellite broadcaster Sky launched a free iPad app for its Sky Sports News channel in September 2010, some wondered if it would also start to offer a paid version of the product. Well, it’s taken 15 months, but it’s happened.

This is the last in a series of posts that highlighted key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from publishing to legal, and from mobile to advertising. Not too long ago, TV Everywhere was a bold concept being evangelized by Time Warner…

FilmOn, the premium-content internet streaming site that met controversy earlier this year over lawsuits involving CBS (NYSE: CBS), CNET, and copyright, is expanding its line up, adding two new sports channels for NCAA Basketball and NCAA Football.

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is turning his attention now to social media: he and his investment group, Kingdom Holding Company, today became the latest investors in Twitter, putting up $300…

Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video - but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social network, it remains mostly a gateway to video hosted elsewhere.

Bloomberg may still be battling with Comcast over better placement on its cable systems, but the financial news and information company is looking to claim to another screen for its live television broadcasts: the iPad. The company launched its latest free, ad-supported app in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes Store…

Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks—a sentiment that they have held on to despite some high-profile services having failed to meet expectations. Now Everything Everywhere—the JV of Orange and T-Mobile in…

Big news for mobile TV pioneer MobiTV: the company has filed for an IPO worth up to $75 million, as it looks for funds to expand internationally, develop its products and potentially size up acquisitions.

The UK is preparing to roll out a new, superfast mobile broadband service that would also more than double the amount of spectrum that is currently available for mobile broadband. Regulator Ofcom today announced plans to go ahead with “white spaces” broadband services, which run on unused spectrum originally allocated…

U.S. viewers watched more than 145 million videos across all of PBS’s web and mobile platforms, making the non-profit broadcaster the 15th most popular online property for video for the month of June, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR). After expanding its video offerings with a major web redesign last year,…

Counting on keeping up with Glee next season through next-day visits to Hulu.com or Fox.com? Count again—unless you subscribe through a video distributor with the right deal. *Fox* Networks is changing the window for online viewing: effective Aug. 15, there will be an 8-day exclusive window for those with subscriber…

A draft GOP bill to auction off TV broadcast spectrum could become embroiled in the ongoing feud between President Obama and congressional Republicans, according to a prominent telecom analyst. The bill, which would authorize the FCC to auction off valuable radio frequencies to private bidders, has drawn criticism because it…

The newest voicemail hacking scandal that has engulfed the UK tabloid News of the World was described by one commentator today as a “slow motion train wreck.” Now that train wreck is threatening to derail the newspaper’s owner, News International.

Years after CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) acquired Last.fm, the personalized streaming music service will be added to Radio.com, the broadcaster’s online player. Radio.com, which already hosts AOL’s and Yahoo’s streaming music as part of its 130 stations and was relaunched a year ago, hopes that Last.fm will complement its existing…

In the middle of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s announcement that it is exploring a possible sale of the company, it released its latest paid app as a sign that on the digital side, it was business as usual. For the most part, MSLO’s website and mobile app revenues are small…

The wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton was a boon to YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), which says the event was live streamed 72 million times on its site. Include re-broadcasts and total streams of the spectacular came in at a staggering 101 million.