ITV

Tag: CBS Digital Media

  • CBSNews.com signs deal with AOL News

    CBSNews.com signs deal with AOL News

    MUMBAI: US internet service provider, AOL and US broadcaster, CBS Digital Media have entered into an agreement to offer up-to-the minute broadband video and text news programming from CBSNews.com to the AOL News channel. Under the agreement, CBSNews.com will offer AOL everything from breaking news from around the world to the quirky and the offbeat. The content will be integrated throughout AOL News, including on the News main page, and will include links back to CBSNews.com for additional stories.

    The news programming, also available at the new aol.com® web site, builds on AOL’s effort to provide an engaging news experience on the Web. AOL® News combines news from trusted news sources with polls, blogs, and multimedia features offering real-time dialogue, and claims to reach a monthly audience of more than 21 million.

    AOL News and Sports VP and editor in chief, Lewis D’Vorkin says, “Working with CBS News demonstrates our dedication to offering a robust online news experience to consumers. By adding news content and video programming from CBS News, we will continue to make our AOL News offering one of the most compelling and interactive experiences on the Web.”

    This agreement is consistent with CBS Digital Media’s longstanding commitment to provide free broadband video to consumers and its recently announced plans to build a broadband on-demand news network. As one of CBSNews.com’s distribution partners, AOL will benefit from its recently expanded editorial operation and integration with the 24 hour global newsgathering capabilities of CBS News.

    CBS Digital Media senior VP and CBSNews.com GM ,Betsy Lake Morgan, says, “Joining forces with AOL confirms CBSNews.com’s commitment to provide high-quality, free broadband video to the online audience. This partnership also provides AOL users with the most current news and analysis from the award-winning correspondents of CBS News.”

  • Larry Kramer is CBS Digital Media president

    Larry Kramer is CBS Digital Media president

    MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom has announced that Larry Kramer has been named CBS Digital Media president. Kramer, who founded Dow Jones’ MarketWatch will now oversee all developing new media operations for US broadcaster CBS. They include CBS.com, CBS SportsLine.com, CBSNews.com and UPN.com, among others, as well as a new sales operation that will serve them.

    CBS Digital Media becomes a newly-created division within CBS headed by Kramer. He reports directly to Viacom co-COO Moonves. Moonves said, “Larry brings an impressive track record of innovation, creativity and business savvy to what just might be our highest area of growth in the future. Throughout his career, he’s demonstrated he has what it takes to envision new enterprises and to make them profitable in the real world.

    “In CBS SportsLine, we have one of the most successful Web destinations in the business, and CBS.com is the number one broadcast network website. I am confident that under Larry’s leadership we will greatly expand our existing digital businesses and pursue new ventures in the video and broadband sector as well.”

    According to Kramer, “This is an exciting opportunity to launch an entrepreneurial enterprise within a company that is home to some of the strongest brands in all of media. By bringing all of the CBS’s Internet and digital assets together, we will be able to move more quickly into creating new forms of programming and new tools for our advertisers. This new unit already has nearly 20 million users and is already profitable. That is a terrific foundation for the programming and advertising juggernaut we intend to create.”

    As he incorporates existing digital and new media operations into this new CBS division, Kramer will work closely with CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group president Nancy Tellem, CBS Sports president Sean McManus, and CBS News president Andrew Heyward. They have been instrumental in developing and operating the various online content destinations that serve the company, and who will continue to be integrally involved in ongoing new media strategy and content development.