Advertising: Apple’s Move Into TV Relies on Cooperation With Industry Leaders

Apple’s steps to reimagine television, like teaming up with ESPN, stand in stark contrast to efforts by Google to compete with established companies.

    

DealBook: Talk of Mergers Stirs Cable TV’s Big Players

John C. Malone is weighing a deal for Time Warner Cable, using Charter Communications as the merger partner, people briefed on the matter said.

    

Gatekeepers of Cable TV Try to Stop Intel

Intel’s plan to create a virtual cable service is running up against a barricade being guarded by cable and satellite distributors.

    

Devoted to Politics, MSNBC Slips on Breaking News

The network experienced a ratings decline in the last two months, as viewers turned away from Washington and toward disaster coverage.

    

American Al Jazeera Channel Shifts Focus to U.S. News

To counter skepticism about its Al Jazeera America cable channel, the Qatar-based network is building a sizable news organization to cover the United States.

    

Video-on-Demand Viewing Is Gaining Popularity

Although it has been around for years, the technology is catching on among people who want to watch television on their own schedules.

    

The Media Equation: Telecom’s Big Players Hold Back the Future

A law school professor is on a permanent campaign to argue that the telecom and cable industry has been overtaken by monopolists who resist innovation and overcharge consumers.

    

TV Networks Face Falling Ratings and New Rivals

The broadcast networks are preparing to unveil new fall lineups for an audience that is shrinking rapidly, lured away by new rivals on all sides.

    

Advertising: Now the TV Heavyweights Have Their Week to Unveil Shows

At the annual upfront week, the largest broadcast networks and cable channels will show off their programming for the 2013-14 season in expensive presentations.

    

Cable Channels Lift News Corp.’s Profit

Publishing businesses, which will soon be split into a separate company, dragged on overall profit.

    

Disney Reports Strong Second-Quarter Profit

Citing strength in almost all its business units, the media giant reported $1.51 billion in profit, a 32 percent increase over a year earlier.

    

USA Network to Explore Sitcoms and Reality Shows

The USA Network believes that in order to stay competitive it has to branch out into new programming directions.

    

Alaskan Media Battle Pits KTUU and Cable Rival

A telecommunications company’s bid to offer TV content raises questions about fairness and monopoly.

    

Cablevision Picks Up Glenn Beck’s Internet Channel

The deal will make TheBlaze available to subscribers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

    

Time Warner Revenue Is Flat, Despite Cable Gains

Quarterly revenue fell at Time Warner’s magazine and movie divisions, partly offsetting gains at Turner Broadcasting and HBO.

    

The Media Equation: Cable TV’s Shift to Darker Dramas Proves Lucrative

Built on lush portraits of human pathology, subscription- and ad-supported cable channels gradually became hotbeds of quality and profits, as detailed in “Difficult Men” by Brett Martin.

    

HuffPost Live in Deal With AXS to Put Show on Cable

Programming from HuffPost Live, an Internet channel, will be carried for six hours a day on AXS TV, which Mark Cuban helped start.

    

Nancy Dubuc Named New Chief of A&E Networks

An executive who helped turn the History Channel into a cable industry leader.

    

Esquire Network Debut Is Postponed

The delay is expected to give the newly branded cable channel time to line up more original series.

    

The Media Equation: More Cracks In TV’s Business Model

Television has thrived on bundling, which offers a way of protecting things but also tends to obscure the weaknesses within. Now those flaws are becoming more apparent.