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ABC Stuffing More Commercials Into Online TV

Feeling safe in the knowledge that I could catch up online, I skipped "Lost" last Thursday night and watched PBS's "Carrier" instead.  Then, on the ABC website, everything worked fine.  But in the future, watching shows on the ABC site may be a little more annoying thanks to extra commercials.

ABC.com To Test Running More Ads Online

Disney-ABC Television Group will begin testing next week of running multiple ads with longform online videos on ABC.com."It would be premature for us to say people only want one ad," Albert Cheng, executive vp digital media at DATG, told THR. "It's a likely sort of thinking, but we want to push it a little bit to see how it would go."

Botched Debate Draws Complaints By Thousands

In case you thought you were alone, you're not the only one miffed* at ABC's Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos after last night's "debate." Over 16,000 people have commented so far at ABCNews.com's debate page—and most of it's not good.

American Idol Boosts Fox Web Traffic

American Idol helped boost visits to Fox Broadcasting's Web site, doubling traffic in January compared with December.

ABC News, Facebook Fail Together (So Far)

With no disrespect to any particular anchor or employee, ABC News just isn’t one of my favorite entities.  It wasn’t overly disappointing, then, to learn that a joint venture with Facebook has thus far failed to gained traction or generate traffic.

Facebook, ABC News Partner On Political App

The concept of getting one’s news on Facebook sounds like a joke.  It’s not, though, and following a partnership between them, both ABC News and the social networking site are hoping the idea will take off.

ABC: Amanda's Been Canned

Ex-Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon won't have her contract renewed with ABC, after a year of working with the network.

TV Networks and Online Networking

NBC isn’t the only one making moves online. ABC, CBS and MTV are also in the news today for their online strategies.

ABC To Offer Free Downloads On AOL

Disney-ABC Television Group and AOL announced today the availability of full-length episodes of primetime shows on AOL Video. The programming will be delivered on a co-branded version of ABC.com's broadband player, full episodes of programs are available today at AOL Video and starting next week will carry ABC's new fall lineup of programming.

CBS, Fox Still Stingy About Debate Footage

Activists on both sides of the political fence are thrilled that NBC, ABC, C-SPAN, and CNN have all agreed to allow Presidential debate footage to be legally shared, blogged, excerpted, and uploaded to video sites like YouTube.