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What The Digital Push Means For Teens

There’s been a steady stream of news on the digital content and branded integration front, culminating this past week with some major announcements. Just on the tail end of FOX’s plans to rebrand Fox Atomic as Fox Digital Studios, this weekend news broke that former Disney chairman Michael E...

Bozell Column: Nick at Nite Blight

During his 20-year reign at Disney, Michael Eisner’s commitment to family values was viewed with suspicion by many. The worries apparently were well-founded. His animation studio, Tornante, has a new clay-animated cartoon on Nick at Nite called "Glenn Martin, DDS." Eisner and Nick at Nite execu...

Federal Court Throws Out UMG's Copyright Suit Against Veoh

A federal judge in Los Angeles has thrown out a Universal Music Group’s copyright infringement lawsuit against video sharing site Veoh. UMG has lost similar cases; this is the second legal loss for the record label in its charge that Veoh violated its copyright because users uploaded videos to ...

Broadband Content Bits: Digital Media Execs Launch 'Obsessed'; Alloy's Teen.com

—Duo hopes women get Obsessed with new show: Another day, another online video series ... though this one is aimed at a demo that doesn't have a glut of original series to choose from: women aged 25 to 55. It's called Obsessed, a talk show produced by web marketer Gary Vaynerchuk and media exec...

Craig Ferguson "Mostly Not Worried" About Jimmy Fallon Competition (VIDEO)

CBS late-late night host Craig Ferguson discusses the looming threat of Jimmy Fallon on tonight's edition of "Conversations with Michael Eisner" on CNBC. In the interview, Ferguson says that he's "mostly not worried" about Fallon, who will be taking over for Conan O'Brien on March 2.

"I'll do w...