Posts Tagged ‘CBS’

Amazon’s stock climbed 2.3% this morning after the company made the announcement it has signed a deal to stream Fox movies and TV shows like “24″ and “Arrested Development” to Amazon Prime members.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

College-basketball fans who haven’t quenched their March Madness thirst when Sunday’s one-hour 2011 NCAA Basketball Championship Selection Show ends on CBS at 7 p.m. ET can squeeze one more hour out of CBSSports.com, which will stream Bracket Breakdown, a live show featuring analysis and predictions for the 2011 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship.

CBSSports.com original video host Jason Horowitz will host Bracket Breakdown, along with former St. John’s men’s basketball coach Norm Roberts, and CBSSports.com senior college-basketball writer Gary Parrish.

Once the brackets are announced, CBSSports.com will also feature four games: Bracket Manager, sponsored by AT&T, allowing fans to organize bracket competitions with friends and co-workers; Bracket Challenge, sponsored by Infiniti, where fans can compete against entrants from around the world for the grand prize, a trip for four to the 2012 Men’s Final Four in New Orleans; the Round-by-Round Bracket Game for Coaches Against Cancer, also sponsored by Infiniti, in which fans make their picks during each round, with prizes including computer tablets and the same grand prize as the Bracket Challenge; and Facebook Brackets and Pick 4, sponsored by Lowe’s, for members of the social-networking site.

CBS Corp. (CBS) made a big splash in the tech world today, announcing it has acquired online television guide Clicker.com and named the site’s co-founder and CEO, Jim Lanzone, as the new President of CBS Interactive. What exactly is Clicker, and just what would the “Tiffany network” want with a fairly new-to-the-game TV guide for the Web?

CBS recognizes “the increasing value” of television content in today’s marketplace. With the wide variety of platforms, more and more, people will be able to access this type of programming.

Will you be watching The Grammys tonight? How about E! Live from the Red Carpet? Check in with social TV app GetGlue and earn exclusive stickers.

GetGlue is going to the Grammys, as the entertainment-based social network teamed up with CBS to create three stickers that can be earned by viewers checking in to the network’s telecast of the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards Sunday at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

GetGlue also previously announced a similar partnership with E! Entertainment Television for its Live from the Red Carpet, which will air at 5 p.m. ET/PT.

CBS is tapping Twitter for another comedy series, as Katie Kindelan of sister blog Social Times reports that the network is developing a sitcom based on the Twitter feed of Kelly Oxford, a stay-at-home mother of three in Canada, called Mother of All Something, to be produced by actress Jessica Alba, who discovered Oxford’s Tweets, and by former Will & Grace writer Jhoni Marchinko, with Oxford herself doing the writing.

The network is also in production on two other Twitter-related series, both from noted Tweeter Ashton Kutcher: Dear Girls Above Me and Shh … Don’t Tell Steve, according to Social Times.

And of course, $#*! My Dad Says already airs on CBS, based on Twitter feed Shit My Dad Says by Justin Halpern, who was the subject of a mediabistro.com So What Do You Do Q&A in September.

Can 140 words or less entertain a TV audience for 30 minutes or more? CBS seems to think so. The network long known as the “Tiffany Network” may now be the “Twitter Network,” inking a deal this week for what will be the network’s fourth Twitter-based sitcom series.

Neil Ashe, who is leaving his post as president of CBS Interactive, spoke with paidContent about what’s next both for him and his former company. Highlights:

I’ve intentionally kind of not focused on what’s going to be next.

The reality is that there are a lot of talented people at CBSi, and they’re still there.

I’m at the end of my original commitment to these guys, and I feel really good about where CBS Interactive is.

It’s always unfortunate when people lose their jobs, so I’m sensitive to that.

CBSNews.com is at an all-time high in traffic and revenue, and we’ve done groundbreaking partnerships with the rest of the properties.

If I could go back in time, what I would have done is founded Google or Facebook. The stock price bounced around. The performance of the properties did not.

As first reported by AllThingsD, CBS Interactive president Neil Ashe is leaving the company. A replacement has not yet been named, but sourced told AllThingsD CBS senior vice president of strategic development Zander Lurie will assume a larger role.

AdAge.com also mentioned entertainment division head Anthony Soohoo as a potential successor.

“Neil has helped make CBSi into the successful and profitable business it is today,” CBS said in a statement. “Looking out into 2011, we are working on a relaxed time frame to name a successor to his post, as he embarks on his next great thing.”