Barry Diller

May 24 (TheWrap.com) - Broadcasters are expanding their legal attack on Aereo-like services that let consumers view broadcast channels on the web without stations getting a retransmission fee payment. Owners of Washington, D.C., TV stations --...

Broadcast networks filed suit on Thursday to halt a company from offering streams of their signals in the Washington D.C. market, in the latest effort to challenge the legality of a bevy of services seeking to provide over-the-air television on the...

May 21 (TheWrap.com) - Barry Diller and Alkiviades "Alki" David have agreed to put an end to a legal brouhaha that has vaguely amused the entertainment industry since last August. InterActiveCorp (IAC) boss Diller and FilmOn honcho David have entered a...

  If viewers are losing interest in broadcast TV, what can lure them back? Executives hope they have an answer: stars. Lifting the curtain on their 2013-14 schedules at the "upfronts" in New York this week, the networks behaved like smartphone-...

Aereo, which major broadcasters are trying to sue out of existence, announced plans to launch its Internet streaming service for local TV in a third market -- Atlanta, starting June 17. The startup, which debuted in Gotham last year and is rolling out in...

NEW YORK — This week, the streets of midtown Manhattan will once again swarm with TV executives trying to woo ad buyers to their upcoming fall lineups with splashy presentations, star-packed cocktail parties and plentiful swag. But there's an...

Internet TV startup Aereo, which broadcasters accuse of illegally poaching their TV signals, is streamlining pricing options to just two plans and scrapping the apparently unpopular per-day and annual options. Aereo is keeping the base plan of $8 per...

Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) on Thursday unveiled legislation that would upend the cable and satellite business, forcing them to let customers pick-and-choose which channels they would like to get rather than take programming in bundles. "The video...

* Startup service looking to expand into new markets * Television industry sees threat to its business By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK, May 6 (Reuters) - Aereo Inc, the online television venture backed by Barry Diller, asked a federal court on Monday to...

A lawsuit to stop lawsuits? That's the latest twist in the fight between Aereo, a start-up company that streams broadcast TV signals over the Internet, and the networks trying to put it out of business. Aereo recently announced that it would expand...

Fox Broadcasting begs to differ with Barry Diller. On Monday, Diller suggested that Aereo -- the start-up company he is backer of that distributes broadcast content via the Internet -- had successfully beaten legal challenges from the broadcasters....

Deanne Barkley, who broke through the glass ceiling in network television to become an influential executive in the early 1970s, when few women had the power to develop prime-time programs, died April 2 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. She was 82. The cause...