As if there weren’t enough sources of celebrity gossips, Trace Sports, whose TV shows cover the private lives of stars from golf legend Tiger Woods to hoops wizard LeBron James, has its eyes on the U.S. even as it’s working...
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Tiger Woods plays a bunker shot during the WGC-Cadillac Championship last week in Doral, Florida.
Tiger Woods Behave! Trace Sports TV Aims Its Lens at U.S. Shores
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The lawsuit is the latest flare-up in what’s become an increasingly acrimonious relationship over affiliate fees.
Cablevision’s Viacom Lawsuit: How We Got Here
Why can’t we be friends? You may have read yesterday that Cablevision is suing Viacom for forcing it to take lower-rated channels along with its most popular networks, a practice the pay-TV company claims is illegal. Cable operators and networks...
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Believe it or not, cathode ray tubes are still in production today, despite the prevalence of flat screens.
Fat Fine May Hit Makers of Fat TVs
Remember those bulbous TVs and computer monitors that preceded the slimmed-down liquid-crystal displays we have today? Some companies are actually still making them (surprise!), and several of them may be fined by the European Union within weeks over price-fixing agreements,...
Read more »MobiTV Boosts Product Line, Plans to Revisit IPO Market in 2013
MobiTV, the software maker that pulled its initial public offering last week, is adding technology that lets users record programs on the go and plans to revisit the IPO market early next year. The company cited “unfavorable market conditions” in...
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Roku devices give subscribers access to a TV version of Rovio's Angry Birds game.
Roku to Raise as Much as $50 Million
Roku’s sales tripled to $100 million last year — in part because it bought radio and billboard advertising for the first time. To garner more brand recognition for its hockey puck-sized TV-set top box, the company intends to seek as...
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