The movie and television streaming site Hulu has been contemplating an offer to sell the company since yesterday, when an unsolicited bid fell on their doorstep. The company, which has so far struggled to show a profit, lost two of its most prominent backers when Peter Chernin left News Corporation and Jeff Zucker departed NBC Universal. READ MORE
About 96 percent of all U.S. households own a TV, but with the ability to watch shows and movies online and on-demand, consumers are relying less on over-the-air TV signals. According to a survey conducted by Consumer Electronics Association, only eight percent of U.S. households with TVs still rely on over-the-air signals for their programming. READ MORE
Do you like Pandora and Flipboard? Are you looking for new ways to be entertained by your iPad? Does the idea of combining your social networks and your video-viewing appeal to you? If you answered yes to all these, you’ll probably love Plizy, a start-up iPad app that uses your social network, Twitter stream, and some patent-pending algorithms to suggest videos you might like to watch. READ MORE
The Justice Department and the FCC have approved the Comcast-NBC merger, which would drop GE ownership to only 49% and forge new ground for a massive cable company owning a popular television network. TechCrunch wonders what this means for the online television service Hulu. The real question: will The Office get renewed? Comcast-NBC Merger: The Hulu Rules [TechCrunch]
