Viacom courted YouTube before launching $1bn piracy lawsuit
From Media Guardian. Posted March 18 2010, 7.23pm
Faced with claims that it encourages piracy, YouTube accuses its rival of sour grapes - as well as claiming it ran covert operations to upload thousands of videos to the siteAmerican media conglomerate Viacom considered buying YouTube just months bef... (more)

ITV: no plans to put shows on YouTube or Hulu
From Media Guardian. Posted March 18 2010, 7.19pm
Broadcaster says it will not do deals with video-on-demand aggregation services, but will build traffic for its own playerA senior ITV executive has said today that the broadcaster had "no plans" to do output deals to put its programming on video-on-... (more)

TV ratings: Tourette's repeat beats Champions League
From Media Guardian. Posted March 18 2010, 6.16pm
Second helping of BBC1 documentary pulls in 3.7 million viewers, as Barcelona-Stuttgart tie draws 3. (more)

Sian Williams: 'I'll read the news nude'
From Digital Spy - TV. Posted March 18 2010, 5.56pm
BBC newsreader Sian Williams threatens to work nude because she can't claim tax relief on her clothes. (more)

Sian Williams: 'I'll read the news nude'
From Digital Spy - TV. Posted March 18 2010, 5.56pm
BBC newsreader Sian Williams threatens to work nude because she can't claim tax relief on her clothes. (more)

Ofcom hands VOD regulation to ATVOD
From Digital Spy - Digital TV. Posted March 18 2010, 5.33pm
Ofcom officially hands over video on-demand regulation to the Association For Television On Demand. (more)

New ITV chief executive Adam Crozier set to earn £16.8m by 2015
From The Times. Posted March 18 2010, 4.41pm
ITV's new chief executive will pocket £16.8 million if he hits all his performance targets by 2015, according to the broadcaster's annual report released today. (more)

Coventry Conversations: The Birth of BBC News Online
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted March 18 2010, 3.54pm
BBC News Online was initially devised in 1997 as a response to CNN’s online news page, claims its creator and former Editor-in-Chief, Mike Smartt. “The reason that the BBC decided to go online was that CNN went online in 1996. (more)

Interview: CBS Thinks Last.fm Will Turn A Profit This Year
From paidContent:UK. Posted March 18 2010, 3.36pm
After its 2007 acquisition, it doesn’t seem like CBS (NYSE: CBS) has been able to get the most from its $280 million Last.fm outlay. There’s been no TV scrobbling, no profit, the site’s key execs have left and fitting the trendy Silicon Roundabout, London, startup in to a U.S. (more)

US imposes sanctions against Hamas TV station in Gaza
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 18 2010, 3.32pm
The US Treasury imposed sanctions today against two firms in Gaza - Islamic National Bank and Al-Aqsa Television - for their ties to the ruling Hamas movement. (more)

BBC DJ who championed world music dies
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 18 2010, 3.21pm
Tributes were paid today to Charlie Gillett, a British radio presenter who championed world music, a day after his death aged 68. (more)

Ant & Dec defend 'Push The Button'
From Digital Spy - TV. Posted March 18 2010, 2.50pm
Ant & Dec insist that Push The Button is getting "better and better". (more)

Ant & Dec defend 'Push The Button'
From Digital Spy - TV. Posted March 18 2010, 2.50pm
Ant & Dec insist that Push The Button is getting "better and better". (more)

Donal MacIntyre to co-present ITV London Tonight
From New Statesman. Posted March 18 2010, 2.40pm
Investigative journalist named as the new co-presenter of ITV London Tonight alongside Katie Derham. (more)

TV broadcasters to fight FCC over broadband spectrum
From New Statesman. Posted March 18 2010, 2.40pm
American TV broadcasters are likely to fight the proposal of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reclaim wireless spectrum for new broadband services. (more)