Barry Diller

  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-...

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...

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....

* 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...

May 01 (TheWrap.com) - CBS might be suing Aereo, which transmits broadcast television content to users' computers, but according to CBS Corporation president and CEO Les Moonves, Aereo isn't worthy of his concern. Speaking at the Milken Institute...

After the coffee. Before remembering that whatever happens today will be a distant memory a week from now. The Skinny: I got to see an ostrich up close last night. I don't know why ostriches and camels are my two favorite animals. These days it doesn'...

By Ronald Grover LOS ANGELES, April 29 (Reuters) - Barry Diller, the billionaire media mogul who is backing the startup Aereo TV service said it expects to reach between 25 and 30 percent of the U.S. television audience with the wireless service that...

The three-day Milken Institute Global Conference kicked off Monday in Beverly Hills, with media moguls Barry Diller and Rupert Murdoch among the hundreds of business leaders and politicians slated to speak. The annual event, run by financier and...

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...

April 23 (Reuters) - Aereo, the red hot Web startup that has raised the ire of U.S. broadcasters, is planning to expand to Boston starting May 15, the company said on Tuesday. Backed by Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, Aereo plans to launch first with...

Apr 22 (TheWrap.com) - A year after Tom Brokaw criticized the White House Correspondents' Association dinner and its related social events as being too "glittering" and suggested it could be worsening the public's impression of journalists, the dinner...