Recently, at the B&C OnScreen Summit, News Corp's Deputy Chairman, Chase Carey, revealed that Hulu will begin charging users to view their content in 2010. "It’s time to start getting paid for broadcast content online", Carey said.
Google CEO, Eric Schmidt has added his voice to the debate about charging for online news content.
Speaking via video link with British broadcasting executives, Schmidt said there is so much free content online that many publishers would not succeed if they put their content behind a pay- wall.
Last week, rumor had it that MySpace was about to launch their long-awaited MySpace email service. It didn't happen last week, but it's starting to happen now. The company is rolling it out. It could be several weeks until you have access to MySpace Mail, but trust that it is on the way if you don't already have it.
News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch said on Thursday that newspapers must find a way to charge for online content to make up for declining ad revenue.
"People are used to reading everything on the net for free, and that's going to have to change," Murdoch told attendees at the annual Cable Show event in Washington, D.C.
Murdoch cited The New York Times as an example, saying it has a "very, very good Web site." He said he did not believe the paper would make any money online unless it changes its current business model.
Hulu, an online video site featuring only professional content, is on track to surpass YouTube in terms of advertising revenue.
Wow, something’s up here—this is the second time this week we’ve written about MySpace.
Rupert Murdoch said yesterday that online subscription revenue at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones could increase by $300 million a year up to the next three years.The News Corp Chief Executive was speaking at Goldman Sachs' Communacopia press conference in New York said he dropped his plan to make the WSJ.com a free and open site after seeing the revenue projections.
Fox News Channel said today that it will add a number of enhancements to the network's Facebook profile on Tuesday.
It's interesting, but not surprising, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is the target of a scathing editorial by the Wall Street Journal. He's an easy and popular target these days from both sides of just about any issue involving the FCC. He stinks. Everybody knows it.
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said it was "very unlikely" his company would reach any type of deal with Yahoo and said Yahoo and Microsoft will not be involved in any type of transaction.On the Microsoft/Yahoo deal Murdoch said," There won't be a deal. There's bad personal feelings."Microsoft was in negotiations earlier this year to buy Yahoo for $47.5 billion but talks broke down in May after the two companies failed to reach an agreement.
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