Shares of sector conglomerates are up across the board for the first three months of 2010, except for a minimal decline at CBS Corp., and most outperformed the broad-based S&P 500 stock index. Plus, most sector biggies have set new 52-week highs since mid-March, many in recent days. Since March 2009, the one-year returns for conglomerate stocks range from 79% for Time Warner to 269% for CBS Corp., according to Bloomberg. But some on Wall Street caution that big sector stocks will have a tougher time continuing their upward momentum from here amid sector stocks' run-up and expectations that …

Hulu, a joint venture of NBC, News Corp and Disney, is coming under pressure from the companies that supply its content. They want Hulu to earn more ad dollars and set up a subscription service, asking consumers to pay a monthly fee to watch some of the shows on the site. The site says it is open to the idea, which may be tested via the iPad app. Hulu's 200 content suppliers, some big and some small, receive 50% to 70% of the ad revenue Hulu generates from their videos. Some of the media companies complain privately about the …

Bravo is planning an expansion into the iPhone and online game business. The network has three games readied, based on its "Top Chef" and "Real Housewives." All will be playable at BravoTV.com, with the Real Housewives game also available for download in the iTunes App Store. The games will be ad-supported when they launch, as well as Facebook Connect enabled. The first game, "Top Chef Food Fight," will launch in April, and lets users put their pix on top of former "cheftestants" bodies, earning points and badges as they make a mess in the kitchen. The second game, the …

MTV is developing a new blog aimed at the coveted young male demographic, though the name of the blog and its launch date is under wraps. The site is expected to include sports, pop culture, gadgets, entertainment and sex. MTV is going for an irreverent voice with the new blog. The move by MTV.com comes as sister network MTV 2 hopes to capture more of a young male audience with dedicated programming. MTV does, however, face many rives for the dude-targeted media. There are digital offshoots of "Maxim," while AOL has built a similarly themed male blog.

CBS and ABC are adapting episodes of their TV shows to be viewed for on Apple Inc.'s new iPad, according to sources, offering Apple new TV content as it prepares for the multimedia gadget's Saturday release. The two U.S. networks are planning to stream their TV shows over the Internet with commercial breaks, similar to on their existing Web sites. CBS plans to stream episodes of TV shows through the iPad's built-in Web browser, while ABC plans to stream its shows in an iPad application. By Saturday, CBS plans to have full episodes of "Survivor" ready for an …