CBS has released results of a poll that indicate viewers who download TV shows watch more TV than the average viewer. The poll shows that half of the users downloaded programs they had never seen and later became fans of those programs.

MSN and NBC Universal Digital Studios, a studio dedicated to creating original and unique programming for a wide range of digital platforms, have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement announced today by George Kliavkoff, chief digital officer of NBC Universal, and Rob Bennett, general manager of Entertainment and Video Services for MSN.

NBC is making the most of consumer generated media, blogs and chat. Smart moves, NBC!

While Google appears to be convincing cable networks to display their content via Google Video, NBC has decided it wants to control the entire process itself.

Is it wrong that at night, when I’m alone in my apartment, I’m scouring Popurls.com for the top YouTube posts and searching uncontrollably for Maury Povich’s show on Pickle Phobia?

Although NBC has enough of an interest in the lightly-used social networking site, no one at the network has signed a check yet for the company.

Ask.com has the boldest holiday celebration image I’ve ever seen on a search engine. Rather than rework their logo or page coloring, they went for a giant fireworks-filled image.

At one point NBC sent a nasty request to YouTube, asking them to remove uploaded content from Saturday Night Live.

Despite past riffs between the two regarding intellectual property, NBC and YouTube announced a strategic partnership to promote NBC programming on the video sharing site.

For the four-week period ending May 27th, NBC led all four major broadcast networks in attracting Internet users to its web properties.

NBC Universal announced it will acquire popular online women’s community iVillage for around $600 million. The company said iVillage “mirrors a key demographic of the NBC Universal audience – women,” and will be integrating television, film, and home entertainment content.

Yes, the ladies love cool Jeremy – and, now, there’s proof that NBC Universal loves the cool ladies as well as it bought iVillage for $600M.

Never mind how much Saturday Night Live has blown chunks in recent years and has little to compete with Mad TV. The first SNL video clip to take the Internet by storm in a long while, Chronicles of Narnia rap spoof “Lazy Sunday,” belongs to NBC. Don’t even think about generating buzz for them.

A query on Google for “NBC Olympics” returns a video link to a two-minute advertisement for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Torino, and an unobvious change to Google’s Sponsored Links boxes on top of search results.

AOL is combining with Survivor creator Mark Burnett for “Gold Rush”, a reality game that will challenge players to use clues buried in AOL Network websites to find 13 caches of gold buried around the United States.

According to Nathan Weinberg, Dateline NBC is courting certain tech bloggers to link to a special live blog they are hosting in conjunction with their series on sexual predators.

So, I’ve been running an ad from NBC on my Blogads (they submit, I approve, no significant editorial decision involved).

$1.99 downloads of recent episodes of shows like “The Office,” “Lost,” and “Desperate Housewives” may have led to ratings gains for all three programs.

Both CBS and NBC have launched new initiatives to track the most popular stories in the blogosphere.

Only Fox hasn’t made a full-length episode of a broadcast TV show available in some manner online, now that CBS has plans to do so with ‘Threshold’.

Donald Trump hired 26 year old real estate entrepreneur Kendra in tonights Apprentice finale.