If CNN wants an incisive big-name interviewer, it should consider hiring Robert Jay QC, who put Piers Morgan through a far tougher interview than Morgan has managed on his primetime show on CNN.

Nearly three short years ago, the buzz word du jour in tech was “realtime”. Real time discovery. Real time search. Real time serendipity. The explosion of interest in social sharing tools like Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed (remember this was early 2009) had people (myself included) saying that “Delayed news will…

Two of the biggest global news brands are gaining a bigger U.S. foothold - but, while one has finally broken in to the TV mainstream, the other is making greater headway online.

Virgin Media has finally made live Spotify’s first UK TV app. Virgin Media customers who are Spotify Premium subscribers can access the music service through Virgin’s new TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set-top box.

When Virgin Media’s CEO said this summer he would bundle Spotify with his services at “significantly less” than Spotify’s own £9.99 Premium charge, we assumed it would mean a permanent monthly discount. What transpires is that Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) will front-load any discount by providing only short-term Spotify free…

Rupert Murdoch received the grilling he had expected at News Corp.‘s shareholders meeting and was more than prepared in remarks that offered a mix of contrition, amusement, weariness and ultimately, a sense that all was well and right with the company and his standing as Chairman and CEO.

Mark Rosenthal is leaving his post as CEO of Current TV just exactly two years after he took the job, paidContent has confirmed from an earlier report from Adweek. In his place, the cable network’s co-founder Joel Hyatt will return to the CEO role he relinquished when Rosenthal was hired.

CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) are expanding their relationship with a new deal that goes both north and south of the U.S. border—and illustrates how idiosyncratic some of these licensing moves can be thanks to existing deals, rights limitations and strategy. The two-year agreement is nearly all about…

Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is close to announcing a deal with Spotify and four record companies to launch a new digital music service – more than two years after first unveiling plans to do so.

UK telco and TV platform Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) could ape its rival BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) by investing in a public WiFi network, so that its subscribers can consume their TV bouquet on the go.

Cable TV and online media will continue to outpace traditional media in the U.S. this year, as the ad recovery has produced a “return to normalcy,” says the latest forecast from Interpublic Group’s Magna Global. Still, as rival ZenithOptimedia revised its 2011 forecast down slightly, Magna is expecting moderate growth…

Having raised new venture funding last week, Boxee now plans to expand in to Europe whilst launching the payment platform that will become its main business model.

FilmOn may have been handed a temporary restraining order preventing it from re-streaming four U.S. TV networks, but the service’s billionaire founder is retaliating with a public internet tirade against one of the plaintiffs.

The pay-TV market is nearing a subscriptions plateau - but YouView doesn’t yet look like stealing current operators’ customers. An Oliver & Ohlbaum survey of internet users found only eight percent are likely to subscribe to pay-TV services next year…

“2011 is going to be pretty transformative for the UK television landscape,” says Virgin Media’s director of digital entertainment Cindy Rose. “There’s a lot of next-generation television products coming to market.”

UK cable operator Virgin Media’s connected-TV future now rests firmly in the hands of TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO), which is re-entering Britain after seven years out.

The Monaco Media Forum isn’t exactly Fight Club but James Murdoch, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) CEO for Europe and Asia, has a first rule: “First rule—if you are going to monetize something, you probably should not give it away for free.”

The web is rapidly merging with television, and the economic, technological, and legal barriers that have kept consumers’ internet experiences separate from their television-watching are under enormous pressure. The first panel at paidContent’s Battle for the Digital Home conference explored what the coming mix of television and internet content will…

Of all the ideas people have had over the years for plugging the rural broadband divide (WiFi, WiMax, government subsidies), not many people ever came up with electricity masts.