Recent earnings reports from the television distributors have contributed to the growing speculation among industry analysts about the declining number of cable subscribers.
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The team behind “Elysium,” starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, promises that it has taken an imaginative detour from the familiar blockbuster formula.
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A channel for young people called Pivot, which will become available in 40 million homes on Thursday, aims for “entertainment that inspires and compels social change.”
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Netflix has given a good shaking to the settled world of television: it has provided its own series, streamed them over the Internet and made them available all at once everywhere.
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Mr. Britt, 64, will be succeeded by Robert Marcus, who at 48 represents generational change both for the company and the industry.
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The satellite-radio company reported $940 million in revenue for the quarter, and an increase of 716,000 in subscribers to 25.1 million.
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The company gained 630,000 subscribers in the United States in the spring, but its shares fell in after-hours trading as some investors wanted even higher subscriber additions.
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To compete with Netflix, Hulu is expanding its original programming and creating an animated series.
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The Japanese phone carrier’s proposal of $8.5 billion for Universal Media Group was believed by some analysts to represent a $2 billion premium over its value.
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Apple’s steps to reimagine television, like teaming up with ESPN, stand in stark contrast to efforts by Google to compete with established companies.
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On the eve of the announcement of the Emmy Award nominees, some are betting that Netflix is poised to change the landscape.
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The deal, which puts new episodes on BET eight days after their initial showing, demonstrates that show owners are willing to consider new models for syndication.
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The streaming-video Web site had been seeking bids for months. The owners — 21st Century Fox, the Walt Disney Company and NBCUniversal — instead decided not to sell.
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A concert at Comic-Con in San Diego by the band is promoting a movie for Picturehouse, a distributor of art films that folded in 2008.
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The Writers Guild of America reported a 6 percent drop in total earnings from movie writing, to about $343 million. TV writing nudged up, to roughly $1 billion.
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Ratings for “Under the Dome” vindicate a decision by CBS to stop ceding the season to cable.
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Netflix has ordered a second season of “Orange Is the New Black,” a series about an unlikely prisoner, two full weeks before subscribers get to see the first season.
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Hulu’s sale could signal the end of one of the pioneers of online streaming, which has become an increasingly popular way to watch television.
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Jane Eisner, the first female editor in chief of Jewish Daily Forward, spends Sunday working and running with her husband.
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How the precision targeting of “persuadable” voters that put President Obama over the top in 2012 could revolutionize the advertising industry.
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