Gephardt pushes for investment in health research

Former U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt pushed Friday for Iowa to expand its focus on public health, arguing the state has the medical infrastructure in place to make it a leader in the field.

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Comcast may take on more than its network can handle by offering its cable TV via the web under its TV Everywhere program, which has me wondering if cable providers will weather the influx of TV content delivered over their data network as opposed to their video network.

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Want to watch that hit TV show online? You may have to prove you're a cable-TV subscriber first. Amid the rush to make programming available for free online, Time Warner and Comcast are fighting back.

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The idea is to protect cable subscription revenues by giving pay TV customers–but only pay TV customers–Web access to all the shows they get on TV, and hoping that keeps them from canceling their subscriptions.

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Sometime tomorrow, Comcast and Time Warner will announce a partnership to promote the concept of TV Everywhere. Jeff Bewkes, chairman and CEO of Time Warner, and Brian Roberts, chairman and CEO of Comcast, will have a joint media conference tomorrow in New York.

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The growing popularity of free video-viewing site Hulu could test the viability of Apple's pay-as-you-go iTunes download business

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Here's the list of ABC/ABC Family shows Disney reportedly plans to make available for free streaming on Hulu (ranked by awesomeness):

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Internet television moves from the computer to the living room. In the land of free enterprise and the home of discount shopping, there can sometimes be an appalling lack of competition. High-speed access to the internet is one. Cable television is another.

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Let's face it. You don't like your cable provider (here's why). Yet the average American cable subscriber pays more than $700 per year on subscription fees.

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Which leads me, naturally, to the billing statement I receive from my satellite TV provider.

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The Internet chews up media and spits them out again. Sometimes they get more robust. Sometimes they get more profitable. Sometimes they die.

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And Everyone Else Gunning for It When Exclusive NBC and Fox Deals Expire?

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It's time to get to know Leo, because over the last year he has single-handedly created a brand-new paradigm for how TV is going to be viewed on the net ... kinda.

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With a variety of Internet options for viewing network television programs and movies, it may not be long before cable and satellite TV services become as relevant as landlines. They'll certainly persist for a good long while, but will we really need them?

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FOR almost 50 years Australians faced one of the most limited television channel choices on the planet -- a choice eventually expanded by pay-TV, and then digital programming -- but now the country is about to enjoy almost unlimited choice with the arrival of IPTV in the lounge r …

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This article discusses the recent acquisition of CNET by CBS and the future of CBS.

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"The Daily Show" is a bellwether for the evolution of Internet video. It is also one of those programs that signify for people why they pay so much money for cable.

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TV viewers moving to the Internet

Traditional TV loosing viewers to the Internet and online media. I have read a lot of articles lately talking about traditional media loosing its viewership to the internet. Of course, the provision off an alternative news and entertainment source or media has reduced the viewe …

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Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research wrote an amazing report entitled And Now for the News...The Emperor Has No Clothes". If you can get a copy, read it.

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Will the third time be the charm for Sony Corp.? The entertainment and electronics giant is preparing to launch an online video service through its game console PlayStation 3 as early as this summer, studio executives familiar with the plan say.

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Blockbuster today is subject to rumors which claim the movie rental house is developing its own networked media hub.

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As part of yesterday's fall schedule announcement, NBC also debuted its plans for online content. Beginning this summer, NBC will produce short, original episodes -- webisodes -- of The Office, Chuck, and Heroes.

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Hulu requires viewers to sit through two minutes of advertisements for a typical half-hour episode, or roughly 75 percent less commercial time than the typical prime-time TV show. Users of digital video recorders can skip commercials, but there's no fast-forwarding through Hulu.

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When the fourth season of "The Office," an NBC comedy, had its premiere in September, one in five viewings was on a computer screen instead of a television. The episode attracted a broadcast audience of 9.7 million people, according to Nielsen Media Research.

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If you had to choose one box... Previously, I looked at the Apple TV in isolation, to see how it fits as a digital hub.

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NBC.com has the results back from another in a series of consumer surveys from people watching "NBC Rewind" video. As we've seen from ABC.com and others who have commissioned similar surveys, the ad recall for show streaming is off the charts: 86% in NBC.com's case.

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