The Walt Disney Co. and Starz Entertainment LLC May 3 filed separate breach of contract lawsuits against Dish Network LLC, alleging the satellite TV operator does not have the legal right to include free one-year passes to Starz content to its subscribers.More>>

Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes March 7 continued his assault on subscription-based video-on demand (VOD) services such as Netflix and Amazon (and separately kiosks), which he said could challenge Hollywood’s ability to make movies and TV shows.More>>

Time Warner Cable’s launch of an app to stream live television on the Apple iPad continued its rollercoaster rollout with the No. 2 cable operator dropping channels from Viacom, Fox and Discovery, and adding 16 others, including ESPNNews and Golf Channel.More>>

Netflix apparently has dug deep into its wallet, reportedly spending as much as $100 million to outbid pay-TV networks for an original scripted series starring Kevin Spacey and directed by Oscar-nominated David Fincher ('The Social Network'). More>>

Beginning this summer Warner Bros. will offer new-release and catalog titles on demand to consumers’ TVs in the People’s Republic of China, making it the first studio to do so.More>>

Comcast Corp. has quietly begun testing an Internet-based television platform designed to personalize TV viewing, including streaming movies and episodic programming similar to Netflix, Hulu and Apple TV.More>>

Universal Studios reported a first-quarter (ended March 31) operating cash flow loss of $146 million, compared with an operating cash flow loss of $12 million during the same period a year ago.More>>

Hollywood studios and cable operators have launched a marketing campaign aimed at convincing consumers to purchase transactional video-on-demand (VOD) movie rentals through their televisions.More>>

Time Warner Cable and Viacom went after each other in court April 7 concerning whether Time Warner Cable was within its rights to launch an iPad application that streamed Viacom channels to the popular tablet computer. More>>

Time Warner Cable March 16 slashed the number of channels available for live streaming on the Apple iPad — less than 24 hours after launching the TV Everywhere app.More>>