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More Android Forking? Disney Teams Up With Japan’s Docomo For 2 New Phones

Disney (NYSE: DIS) Mobile, the short-lived U.S. MVNO that found a new lease of life in Japan through a Softbank JV in 2008, has now launched two new Android handsets in partnership with NTT Docomo, the country’s biggest carrier.

Kilar: More reason for Hulu to exist now than ever

While Hulu was formed primarily as a way for content owners to distribute and monetize content online that would otherwise be pirated, CEO Jason Kilar said Tuesday that there's more reason for the company to exist now than there was four-and-a-half years ago.

NBC Puts the Super Bowl on the Web Because It Thinks You’ll Watch It on TV

NBC is letting you watch the Super Bowl on the Web, for free, on Sunday. Here's why.

Industry Moves: ESPN; Yahoo; Wikia; AdoTube

ESPN: The sports network is seeing a reorg: John Kosner has been promoted to EVP, digital and print media, from SVP and GM of the divisions. Marie Donoghue has been promoted to SVP, global strategy, from SVP, business affairs and business development. Meanwhile, longtime leaders John Wildhack and Norby Williamson will switch roles. Wildhack is...

Like Sports on Cable? Pay Up. Don’t Like Sports on Cable? Pay Up, Anyway.

Here's how your monthly cable bill gets split up. Spoiler: Disney and ESPN get a really big chunk.

The newsonomics of signature content

What's your signature content? Quick: If somebody buttonholed you in an elevator, a school play, or a bar, and said, "Why should I pay you for that?" — what do you tell them? Each passing week, it seems we're further into the age of signature content. That only makes sense: If the death of distance...

Hulu Plus Claims More Than 1.5 Million Subs; Commits $500 Million To Content In 2012

Hulu Plus has “materially exceeded” expectations, passing 1.5 million paying subscribers and heading closer to the point where the premium video service plus its younger sibling in Japan will help account for half of Hulu’s revenues.

Study: Old-School TV Viewing Is Still Growing

A range of on-demand viewing options—and some new platforms to watch that content on—has traditional television watching on the run, right? Well, not quite. The average number of hours Americans spend every week sitting on the couch watching terrestrial, cable and satellite television continues to rise, according to a new year-end report from Turner Networks.

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Study: Old-School TV Viewing Is Still Growing

A range of on-demand viewing options—and some new platforms to watch that content on—has traditional television watching on the run, right? Well, not quite. The average number of hours Americans spend every week sitting on the couch watching terrestrial, cable and satellite television continues to rise, according to a new year-end report from Turner Networks.

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"Soft" Ad Sales Ding Hulu’s 2011 Growth

Revenue grew 60 percent last year, to $420 million. That's big, but it's also less than the company expected.

Why the Future of TV Won’t Be Here Soon

Social TV, Web TV, etc., are all fine. But regular people want to pay less for the stuff they want. And getting that to happen is going to require a lot of work.

Is Dish Punching the Networks With Its Supersized DVR?

No new paradigm shifter from the satellite TV guys. But their new autorecording DVR seems like it's trying to steal some thunder from Hulu, at the very least.