Fox, NBC execs to handle product development, distribution for Mobile Content...

According to a release issued today, Fox, Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television, NBC, and eight other broadcast giants are launching a joint venture to develop a new national mobile content service. The release says that the consortium will utilize existing "broadcast spectrum," to enable member companies to provide content to mobile devices, including live and on-demand video, local and ...

Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, E.W. Scripps Co., Fox, Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television Inc., ION Television, Media General Inc., Meredith Corp., NBC, Post-Newsweek Stations Inc. and Raycom Media today announced plans to form a standalone joint venture to develop a new national mobile content service.

AllThingsD's Peter Kafka is busy dousing concerns that recent statements by News Corp 's Chase Carey—that "It's time to start getting paid for broadcast content online"—mean that Hulu is going to die, dead . He makes a good point: Hulu, the joint venture between News Corp.'s Fox, GE's NBC Universal and Disney's ABC, doesn't plan on charging people to watch the stuff it's currently airing on the site–a mix of first-run shows from broadcast TV, a limited number of cable TV shows and a smattering o

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