Fast Company
Three of A&E's channels -- the History Channel, Lifetime and A&E -- are launching Android apps that will provide streaming of full episodes of shows for paying cable subscribers. "Cable or satellite subscribers with Xfinity TV accounts will also have access to the past season catalogs of popular shows," writes Neal Ungerleider.In other TV Everywhere news, Scripps Networks Interactive will debut Internet and mobile apps for Time Warner Cable subscribers to watch the network's lifestyle-oriented shows "on a wider variety of platforms and devices,"
writesThe Wall Street Journal's Tess Stynes.
Variety
In a partnership aimed at regaining "cultural relevance," the newly revived MySpace has signed a one-year deal with "Jimmy Kimmel Live" to stream select extended performances of the show's musical guests over the Internet, after their appearance on-air, writes Todd Spangler.
Poynter
The Washington Post Company is rolling out a paywall for its Southern Maryland Newspapers: the Maryland Independent, The (St. Mary’s County) Enterprise and The Calvert Recorder. The company also killed off two of its Maryland papers in May.
New York Times
In the wake of $3 million in earnings losses in the first quarter, Martha Stewart Omnimedia "is redesigning its Web site and flagship magazine, and Ms. Stewart, 71, says she is 'trying to evolve,'" writes Christine Haughney. Today, "the company is releasing on iPad its redesigned July/August issue of Martha Stewart Living," featuring "pared-down presentations of recipes, like how to grill a fish, and shorter instructive features, like how to make friendship bracelets."
TechCrunch
Not surprisingly, Buzzfeed blows top versions of "old media" -- New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the New Yorker -- out of the water, according to at least one measure of relevance and audience numbers: average number of times stories are shared on social media, writes Jon Evans. Evans uses those numbers, which he tracked himself, to analyze the state of old and new journalism today, in a highly opinionated yet interesting post (he's generally not bullish on Buzzfeed, for example, which he calls "little more than a superbly engineered machine for turning animals, animated GIFs, and
CNBC
Charter Communications, mulling its acquisition strategy, has made overtures to Time Warner Cable. But "sources close to Time Warner Cable said the company indicated it had no interest in any sort of a linkup with Charter, believing that it was simply an attempt by Charter to use Time Warner's balance sheet along with its own high multiple stock to pursue a deal that did not make financial sense," writes David Faber.
Variety
Under the leadership of president Jeff Zucker's, CNN is "readying a bevy of docuseries that could broaden CNN’s image beyond that of a purveyor of straight-down-the-middle information," writes Brian Steinberg. They include "Inside Man," "featuring documentarian Morgan Spurlock embedding himself in such places as a medical marijuana dispensary." Steinberg analyzes this and other changes Zucker has made so far.
CNET News
Viacom is launching the first in a series of apps that will combine video and social extras with on-demand streaming of its shows on mobile devices, mostly for subscribers of pay TV services. Yesterday the company rolled out apps for MTV and MTV2 on the iPhone and iPad.
Adweek
A Meredith Corp. exec is bullish about the recent launch of its free Mom+ parenting app, which "lets readers get exclusive content on their smartphones by scanning icons in the print editions of Parents, American Baby, FamilyFun and Ser Padres magazines with their mobile devices," writes Lucia Moses. Carey Witmer, evp, president of the Meredith Parents Network, "said she's encouraged to see 25,000 entries to a sweepstakes that require the app."
New York Post
Bauer Publishing will debut three magazines in the U.S. this fall: Closer, a "hybrid of a celebrity weekly and women’s service magazine," according to editor in chief Annbel Vered; Girl's World, for tween girls aged six to 10; and Celebrations, which "will be spun out of Woman’s World," which the company also owns. "The launches are decidedly market-contrarian moves," writes Keith Kelly. "They mark one of the more ambitious magazine launch efforts by any major publisher in five years."