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The worldwide hit video game Guitar Hero could become a reality TV show and/or a real-life concert tour, people familiar with the discussions said Thursday.

U.S. toymaker Hasbro Inc and Discovery Communications unveiled a joint venture on Thursday for a television network and website that will carry children's programs featuring brands like G.I. Joe, Transformers and My Little Pony.

LOS ANGELES - One of online video's first breakout on-air personalities is popping up again on the mobile platform.

LOS ANGELES - One of online video's first breakout on-air personalities is popping up again on the mobile platform.

The world's top cellphone maker Nokia has sold its enterprise mobile TV unit to India's Wipro, a spokesman for Nokia said on Monday.

Adobe Systems Inc. announced that it will be bringing its popular Flash technology beyond computer screens to Internet-connected televisions, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other home entertainment devices.

Think participating in a TV audience is just for fans? Not always. When Jenny Jones was preparing for her show’s launch in 1991, she dropped by a taping of The Phil Donahue Show.

Ashton Kutcher has gone to beat CNN in gaining 1 million followers on the popular micro-blogging site, Twitter, in a battle between TV and Web media.

A young Guantanamo prisoner from Chad was given permission to telephone a relative but instead called the al Jazeera television network and said he was being beaten and abused at the U.S. detention camp.

Walt Disney Co Chief Executive Bob Iger warned the cable TV industry not to alienate consumers by restricting cable programing on the Web to paying TV subscribers because it could provoke a consumer backlash.

Walt Disney Co Chief Executive Bob Iger warned the cable TV industry not to alienate consumers by restricting cable programing on the Web to paying TV subscribers.

Full-length TV shows will be shown now on BlackBerry devices as QuickPlay Media has announced it will offer a new TV download service for the smartphones via the newly released Research In Motion applications store.

Privately-held QuickPlay Media Inc plans to deliver full length popular television shows to BlackBerry smartphone screens via Research In Motion's applications store after forging agreements with TV networks, including NBC, CBS Corp and MTV.

Want to get across to Asia's youth? Do it through media or music, with a survey revealing that most spend on average 10 hours a day watching TV, on the Internet, reading magazines or listening to the radio.

Australian politicians turned up the heat against Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc's planned $19.5 billion tie-up with China's Chinalco, with one taking out television ads on Tuesday to push for the deal to be blocked.

With about three months to go, U.S. regulators say some consumers are still unprepared for the television industry switch to digital broadcasting, which will affect Americans who do not receive their signals through cable or satellite.

With about three months to go, U.S. regulators say some consumers are still unprepared for the television industry switch to digital broadcasting, which will affect Americans who do not receive their signals through cable or satellite.

Intel announced the creation of a new type of TV antenna which the company claims to be the world's first embedded balanced antenna for Digital TV on a Laptop.

Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable Inc are talking with owners of major cable television networks about ways to give cable subscribers online access to much of the networks' programing, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the situation.

This is an improvement of more than 800,000 homes since Nielsen reported readiness status at the beginning of February. The Albuquerque/Santa Fe, N.M., market continues to be the least prepared. Some stations switched during the daytime, but an NAB representative said the vast majority that switched Tuesday did so after airing their primetime programing.

President Obama signed the DTV Delay Act into law Wednesday night, postponing the transition to digital TV until June 12 and putting wireless companies' plans to use their 700 MHZ spectrum assets on hold.