Weekend Pick / Pick of the Week

Since I can’t get enough concerts streaming to my living room since last week’s Trey Anastasio stream, I’m adding more concerts to my Weekend Pick and Pick of the Week for next week.

Tonight and tomorrow, March 12th and 13th, The Drive By Truckers will be live streaming two nights from Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse, courtesy of [...]

Oscar Night Irony

On the heals of Livestream’s open letter to the industry about piracy of live streamed content, it wasn’t long before a quinticential example pops up.

While ABC initially cut off access to Cablevision during their dispute (access was restored at approximately 8:45PM EST, disgruntled viewers are turning to the web for their OSCAR content. In [...]

Cablevision Sends Viewers to the Web on Oscar Night

UPDATED: Disney and ABC have apparently reached an agreement “in principle.” Access to ABC was restored on the Cablevision network at approximately 8:45 PM EST approximately 30 minutes into the Oscars broadcast.

The months long public battle between ABC and Cablevision over retransmission rights fees came to a head today when ABC pulled the plug [...]

NAB Free Passes from OVW

The good folks from NAB have given us a special registration code for OnlineVideoWatch readers, giving you access to the show – a $150 value – for FREE. This special pass includes the exhibit floor, the Opening Keynote and State of the Industry Address, Info Sessions, Content Theater, Destination Broadband Theater and Exhibits. Click HERE [...]

Fox Moves On To Brightcove

In what is sure to be a sign of things to come, Fox.com has dumped Move Networks in favor of Brightcove, according to our friends at NewTeeVee.

Sad, but not surprising, this is what happens when everyone else catches up to a market leading technology. As we refer to it, Move Networks offered a feature, [...]