By Chris Tryhorn: UK broadcaster Five has signed a deal with CBS (NYSE: CBS) to make programmes available on the US network’s on-demand video website TV.com. The partnership is a coup for CBS, allowing it to steal a march on its US rivals ABC (NYSE: DIS), Fox and NBC, whose…

CBS’ games site GameSpot is bringing its industry intelligence-gathering service to the UK. GameSpot Trax includes data from 4.5 million UK gamers. The service is packaged as a tool for retailers, games publishers and marketers to measure consumer interest and buzz around particular titles.

*CBS* should be pleased with its choice to allow *Microsoft* to sync Xbox LIVE to Last.fm, as the partnership has already netted the streaming music service nearly a million new subscribers. Last.fm went live on Xbox last Tuesday, and both companies are already hyping the deal as a success in…

Four months after announcing the features, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) added social networking and music radio functionality to its Xbox 360 console on Tuesday, along with the first European foray for its Zune brand (see earlier reports from Tameka and I). Here are my initial explorations with each new service (turn…

Several key Last.fmers who have been with the social music site since its early days will follow their founders out the door in the next few weeks, as CBS (NYSE: CBS) continues to struggle with the integration of its $280 million acquisition. —Head of music Jonas Woost (pictured), who has…

While most radio stations are looking for ways to expand their online presence, *CBS Interactive* Music Group is doing the opposite with social music site Last.fm. by giving the brand an all new station to be broadcast on the company’s HD multicast stations. Last.fm will effectively take over CBS (NYSE:…

—Last.fm video ads: Remember the new visual music player it unveiled in May? Now it’s picked a company to sell ads in to it. Germany’s Smartclip, which already sells adds in to Zattoo’s TV app window, gets the task of selling clickable video and animated displays in to the Flash…

Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) is still proving to be the big online hold-out amongst the four music majors. Seven months after it pulled its videos and songs from YouTube, and 13 months after ending its license with Last.fm, fans still can’t play any of WMG’s Madonna, Red Hot Chili…

Finally, some serious synergy ... CBS (NYSE: CBS) parlayed Wednesday’s appearance by Paul McCartney on The Late Show with David Letterman into a surprise mini-concert from the marquee of the Ed Sullivan Theater—and then into a web-exclusive set. In front of cameras on scaffolds across from the theater where he…

Fifteen months after it first announced the feature, Last.fm is finally introducing a premium subscription model worth its name, as it tries to generate enough money to both pay royalties and satisfy its owner CBS (NYSE: CBS) Interactive. The music site made a song and dance back in January 2008,…

CBS (NYSE: CBS) Radio is to begin adding its streams to Last.fm, in the first real integration of the social music site with its new owner since the $280 million acquisition last May. CBS Radio says it will this spring launch a new player that will be added to Last.fm,…

SoundExchange, the body that collects music royalties for artists and which lobbied the Copyright Royalties Board for internet radio rate hikes due to take effect from July 15, reckons Last.fm is paying too little in royalties now that it is owned by CBS. In a recent edition of KCRW’s The…

Last.fm will not be participating in Tuesday’s internet radio Day Of Silence. Some members of the site have called on the new CBS acquisition to announce whether it would support independent webcasters such as SomaFM, who are switching off their streams Tuesday in protest at Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) rate…

CBS spent $280 million in cash to acquire Last.fm, which claims 15 million-plus active users in more than 200 countries. The potential isn’t limited to radio; this is more about community and technology, in some respects, than music. From the release: “The Last.fm management team will work with all relevant…

The CBC Interactive Audience Network moved from idea to execution—at least, announcements—in the span of 8 days or so, according to Quincy Smith, president of CBS Interactive and the guy at the center of the storm. (No telling how long some of these deals have been in the works.) But,…

The big BBC restructuring plan is coming today, at 10 AM GMT…part of the plan includes the merger of the production and TV divisions under director of TV Jana Bennett, and the expansion of new media chief Ashley Highfield’s responsibilities. Highfield’s work is expected to be greatly expanded with the…