Barry Diller

In a partial victory for Aereo, a U.S. district court judge dismissed part of a lawsuit brought against the digital television company by a group of major broadcasters. Backed by media mogil Barry Diller, Aereo launched last March but has faced ...  

Barry Diller has won an unexpected early-round legal victory against the major broadcast networks as a federal judge on Monday threw out an unfair-competition complaint that they had filed against Dillers Aereo service The service allows subscribers to use...  

When Barry Diller backed a start-up that streams local broadcast signals over the Internet, it looked like another unorthodox move by a famously offbeat mogul. Now that start-up has become a grenade that is threatening to wound the television industry.  

BUSINESS WEEK - May 23 - Billionaire Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp, the owner of Match.com and other 50 businesses, delivered the best returns of any Internet media company worldwide, trumping Google and Baidu. One of IAC’s steadily expanding businesses is online dating. CEO Greg Blatt sees the U.S. as the biggest growth opportunity, while building abroad for longer-term returns as more consumers get online and have the means to make...  

After starting his career in the mail room at the William Morris Agency, then going on to work at ABC, where he masterminded the “Movie of the Week” program.  Barry Diller led Paramount Pictures and created the TV network Fox with Rupert ...  

We learned a lot yesterday at IAC chief Barry Diller's all-star lunch for director Mike Nichols and his production of "Death of a Salesman." The play picked up several Outer Critics Circle nominations at 11am, including Best Revival of a Play, Best Director, Best Actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman), and Best Featured Actor (Andrew Garfield). I actually broke the news to Nichols on the way in to the ...  

To the six members of British Parliament's culture committee who think Rupert Murdoch ought to step down as head of News Corp., Barry Diller says this: Who do you think you are?  

A trio of moguls -- Donald Trump, Barry Diller and Jack Welch-- are jumping to Rupert Murdoch's defense in the U.K. phone-hacking scandal where a parliamentary committee dubbed the News Corp. leader "not fit" to run a major global company. On Tuesday, the ...  

No one can accuse Barry Diller of putting all his eggs in one basket. Indeed, the busy septuagenarian just got a few new “eggs,” thanks to the 8-K that TripAdvisor, Inc. (TRIP) filed late last Friday afternoon. Filed at 4:02 p.m. on April ...  

New digital video services should be permitted to operate on a level playing field with broadcasters and other traditional programming services, says former TV and movie studio executive Barry Diller. In speaking to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce ...  

Longtime media executive Barry Diller, testifying Tuesday before the Senate Commerce Committee, called for a rewrite of the Communications Act of 1996, Bloomberg reports.Diller, who created both the Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting, is now involved in online distribution of television programming as the chairman and senior executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp. He urged lawmakers to rewrite the laws governing communications to reflect...  

IAC/InterActive Corp chairman Barry Diller testified before the Senate Commerce Committee today about the future of online video. We can’t believe someone thought this was a legitimate question in the era of Netflix and Hulu, but the hearing was actually called ” The Emergence of Online Video: Is it the Future ?” Then we remembered who was asking . “Incumbents have the means and incentives to ...  

IAC Chairman Barry Diller told a Senate panel Tuesday that the U.S. telecommunications law must be rewritten because of the advance of the Internet. Diller said changes in media brought about by online content have made the 1996 Telecommunications Act ...  

IAC/Interactive Corp. (IACI) Chairman Barry Diller, who is challenging cable and broadcast providers by distributing television channels via the Internet, urged U.S. lawmakers to help nurture the emerging online video market. Some established ...  

Rivers would later acknowledge that Fox Chairman Barry Diller and the show’s producer, her husband Edgar Rosenberg, did not get along, and that Diller immediately blamed Rosenberg when the show began to tank and held him up for public ridicule when ...