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.  

A key decision came down Monday in a closely watched legal case that many see as a showdown between traditional media and online streaming. Television broadcasters lost some ground in their battle against Barry Diller's Aereo, a service that streams local TV content via the Web for $12 per month, according to The Hollywood Reporter.U.S. District Court Judge Alison J. Nathan on Monday dismissed an unfair competition claim that was part of the...  

TV broadcasting executives have spent the better part of a week threatening legal action over Dish Network's new Auto Hop feature that allows users to completely skip commercials. But while that has been happening, a federal judge in New York has been ...  

TV broadcasting executives have spent the better part of a week threatening legal action over Dish Network's new Auto Hop feature that allows users to completely skip commercials. But while that has been happening, a federal judge in New York has been ...  

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...  

BloombergDiller Beats Google With World's Best Web Stock: Riskless ReturnSan Francisco ChronicleMay 23 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, the owner of dating website Match.com and search tool Ask.com, delivered the best returns of any Internet media company worldwide, trumping Google Inc. and Baidu Inc. Diller's ...Diller Beats Google With World's Best Web StockBusinessWeekall 3 news articles »  

Billionaire Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI), the owner of dating website Match.com and search tool Ask.com, delivered the best returns of any Internet media company worldwide, trumping Google Inc. and Baidu Inc. Diller’s collection ...  

Billionaire Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) (IACI), the owner of dating website Match.com and search tool Ask.com, delivered the best returns of any Internet ... primarily because of its recent price appreciation.  

May 22 (Reuters) - Aereo Inc, an online television start-up backed by billionaire Barry Diller, has won the dismissal of part of a lawsuit brought by a group of broadcasters seeking to shut it down. The dismissal of an unfair competition claim ...  

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 ...  

All of the major TV broadcasters are fighting a legal battle against Aereo, an upstart company backed by Barry Diller that seeks to distribute stations online to paying customers. If Aereo is successful in fending off the lawsuit, will cable and satellite distributors shake up their own approach to delivering TV to consumers? (Read on Source)  

Friends of the High Line hosted their annual Spring Benefit on Tuesday, where some of the park's biggest fans including $20 million donors Diane von Furstenberg and husband Barry Diller, Spike Lee, Edward Norton, and many more came out in support.  

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?  

Former News Corp. executive Barry Diller, who was the architect of the Fox network ... Diller's IAC/InterActive Corp. also led Aereo's $20.5-million round of financing. In March, News Corp.'s Fox, along with CBS, NBC and ABC, filed a suit ...  

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 ...  

Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Morning Media Newsfeed via email. TV Broadcasters Warn of Huge Industry Shakeup If Barry Diller's Aereo Isn't Stopped (THR) All of the major TV broadcasters are fighting a legal battle against Aereo, an upstart company backed by Barry Diller that seeks to distribute stations online to paying customers. If Aereo is successful in fending off the lawsuit, will cable and satellite distributors shake up...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 20, the ...  

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...  

Mark Lacter: One of the perks of being really rich: You get money you don't need for work you never did.  

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 ...  

It's amazing just how desperate the TV networks appear to be getting. We've already discussed how they've sued Aereo, the company that sets up individual antennas to get over the air broadcasts, and then streams them over the internet to people's homes. But, now they appear to be going after Barry Diller personally for investing in Aereo. They've subpoena'd info from him directly including: All documents concerning Aereo or the Aereo...  

Late Friday afternoon, Barry Diller got a troublesome e-mail ... including IAC, FirstMark, First Round Capital, Highland Capital Partners, Lauder Partners, and SV Angel Management Holdings, attacked the subpoenas, saying they "exceed all rational bounds ...  

“Too much television programming is crude and a poor reflection of our society,” the senator said. In a statement of response to Diller's testimony, Dennis Wharton, a spokesman for the National Association of Broadcasters, said: "NAB strongly supports ...  

DIANE VON FURSTENBERG witnessed a near-disaster concerning long-term friend Calvin Klein during an adventure holiday to Peru a few years ago, which included a hike of the Inca trail. "We didn't have the boat that year, so Barry [Diller, von Furstenberg's ...  

The average American currently spends about 146 hours a month watching traditional TV and about 4½ hours each watching Internet videos on PCs and mobile devices, said Susan Whiting, Nielsen’s vice chairman. About 91% of TV viewing is still do ...  

Television networks seeking to dismantle a startup that delivers over-the-air broadcasts via the internet want to know what the hell Barry Diller, the chairman of the IAC/InterActiveCorp media empire, was thinking when his company invested $20.5 million in to a legally questionable startup called Aereo.  

“Congress should be vigilant that the rules of the game favor entry, innovation and competition.” Diller was called to the one-day hearing, titled "The Emergence of Online Video," in part because of the March launch in New York of Aereo, his new streaming technolog  

Television networks seeking to dismantle a startup that delivers over-the-air broadcasts via the internet want to know what the hell Barry Diller ... when Bertelsmann’s chairman, Thomas Middlehoff, explained why the company invested $85 ...  

IAC chair will join execs from Amazon, Nielsen and...  

All of the major broadcasters sued Aereo in March for allegedly providing unlimited streams of television broadcasts over the Internet in direct competition with their own activity. Aereo defends its $12-a-month service by saying its limited to local ...  

The list also includes Blair Westlake of Microsoft; Susan Whiting of Nielsen; and Paul Misener from Amazon. Committee Chair Jay Rockefeller tweeted the witnesses, as he had promised Wednesday when announcing the hearing on the issue. A number of ...  

This week we're ... Who Was There: Anderson Cooper, Barbara Walters, Oscar de la Renta, Rachel Zoe, Rodger Berman, Molly Sims, Coco Rocha, Louise Roe, Barry Diller and Br...  

Diller was also asked about the legal challenge to Aereo, the new over-the-internet TV service IAC is backing. “Some broadcasters have said, ‘Just pay us retransmission money and we’ll let you go along your way,’” he said.  

These were some of the adjectives lobbed by two of the world’s most powerful moguls (and Donald Trump) on Tuesday in support of their friend Rupert Murdoch. Barry Diller and Jack Welch rallied behind Mr. Murdoch in response to a British ...  

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Ensuring continued unfettered access to internet content is crucial to the emergence of competitive online video service, Barry Diller, chairman and senior executive of IAC, testified at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Tuesday morning. "Net neutrality is absolutely mandatory, because there is no question that without it, you will see the absolute crushing of any competitive force," Diller told the senators...  

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 ...  

Consumer demand and technological change will drive stunning growth in online video for years to come, so long as Internet access is widely available to all, a Senate committee heard Tuesday."Online video is just beginning," Barry Diller, at 70 still a titan of the US entertainment industry, testified before the Senate's commerce, science and transportation committee."In the end, there is no stopping technical innovation," said Diller, who...  

Barry Diller plans to tell Congress that the future of online video is "simply 'more,'" more...  

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 ...  

Barry Diller, chairman of IAC, which is backing Aereo, a pay-TV subscription ... online video distributors," Diller said. Diller, whose long career in media includes stints as chairman and CEO of Paramount, chairman and CEO of Fox and owner of USA ...  

Netflix and YouTube draw millions of video viewers, and broadcasters battle Aereo TV, Barry Diller's online TV station distribution service (Diller is also a witness at the hearing), over what constitutes retransmission of a broadcast signal subject to FCC ...  

Today FilmOn TV Networks ( http://www.FilmOn.com ) unveiled its long awaited partnership with Minnesota based MSO, FTTH with a brand new OTT service available at http://www.FTTHweb.com Barry Diller (center) with FilmOn CEO Alki David (right ...  

IAC Chairman Barry Diller told a Senate panel Tuesday that he thought the same rules and...  

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 ...  

(Reuters) - Aereo Inc, an online television service backed by billionaire Barry Diller, filed a second countersuit against major broadcasters that want to stop it from retransmitting their programming. Tuesday's lawsuit against News Corp's Fox ...  

Aereo Inc, an online television service backed by billionaire Barry Diller, filed a second countersuit against major broadcasters that want to stop it from retransmitting their programming. Tuesday's lawsuit against News Corp's Fox, the Public ...  

March 20 (Reuters) - Aereo Inc, an online television service backed by billionaire Barry Diller, filed a second countersuit against major broadcasters that want to stop it from retransmitting their programming. Tuesday's lawsuit against News Corp's Fox ...  

Barry Diller doesn’t carry any ID. That’s the sort of thing you learn when you are launching a radio program and have the luck to have one of the world’s most famous moguls as a guest on your first show. Special arrangements have been made to get him int...  

Barry Diller doesn’t carry any ID. That’s the sort of thing you learn when you are launching a radio program and have the luck to have one of the world’s most famous moguls as a guest on your first show. Special arrangements have been made to get him int  

The citizens include retired banker David Rockefeller, former Paramount Pictures honcho Barry Diller, ex-Seagram boss Edgar Bronfman and Facebook co-founder and New Republic publisher Chris Hughes. No pinkos here. Why are so many establishment figures (as ...  

Per-share earnings minus items were 51 cents, up from 37 cents in the year-earlier quarter. IAC Chairman Barry Diller sees innovation in firm's search brands. AP View Enlarged Image Analysts had expected 46 cents profit on sales of $593.5 million ...  

One top exec said a lawsuit should be expected within a month. (The industry already is fighting the Barry Diller-backed Aereo, which streams TV broadcasts online.) In the meantime, Fox and NBC have pulled ads for Auto Hop from their networks, and on a ...  

That comes as TV stations across the country are fighting Barry Diller's new Aereo TV, which they see as an effort to use Internet delivery to sidestep retrans payments for retransmitting broadcast signals over the Internet. The stations, in comments filed ...  

Barry Diller's upstart Aereo service, which lets paying customers record and watch over-the-air television stations online, could destroy the economic model behind television, an NBC-Universal exec said in a court filing. Aereo is being sued by all of the ...  

Washington Post. Hatching start-ups: In the past 18 months, Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp. has rolled out two incubator "labs" that between them plan to launch 10 companies a year. Crain's New York. Twitter demystified: Do I really need to use Twitter?  

As reported by Seeking Alpha contributor InsiderInsights here, director Barry Diller purchased 264,000 shares worth a total of $20.3 million. This purchase is noteworthy for a few reasons, firstly, the size of the transaction is important. Often insiders ...  

Donald Trump, billionaire Barry Diller and Jacob Rothschild, an investment banker who helped Murdoch buy the now- defunct News of the World tabloid more than 40 years ago, are among executives who sent out statements supporting the 81-year- old ...  

Founded in 2000, it was bought by media mogul Barry Diller’s InterActiveCorp and then spun off again in 2005 to fend for itself as a standalone travel brand. Once a pioneer, TripAdvisor now styles itself as the new kid on the block in terms of ...  

Aereo, which is backed by Barry Diller, claims it is providing remote individual antennas to each subscriber, then taking individual TV station signals off those antennas and delivering them over the Internet to computers, smartphones and tablets.  

Barry Diller and Francisco Costa. Bobbi Brown and Spike Lee Over dinner, an expansive three course meal served family-style, artist Jeff Koons, High Line board member Darren Walker and Goldman Sachs, represented by Chief Operating Officer Gary ...  

"There are usually anomalies like one big gigantic financing." In the latest quarter, the big money-grabbers were Aereo, a streaming TV start-up backed by Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp, and new media firm BuzzFeed, which raised $20.5 million ...  

The entire negotiation was smooth.” Aereo, which launched its service in New York City on March 14 and is backed by media mogul Barry Diller, declined to comment. Gary Kamenetsky, a broker at CBRE Group Inc., represented Aereo. Mr. Moskowitz ...  

Google doesn’t know what to do with the products it has. Yahoo just purged another 2,000 people. News Corp? Barry Diller? AOL? Please. And that’s assuming that there even is a market for your consumer technology startup’s product or service.  

Greg Blatt, the CEO of Internet conglomerate IAC ... Joey Levin, CEO of IAC’s Web search division, says he can hear Blatt through a foot of concrete from the office below his. “I’ve never heard another voice through that floor.”  

(Not to be confused with the Eclipse, which holds the current record for largest private engine-powered vessel.) EOS launched in Germany in 2006 and is owned by Diane von Furstenberg and husband Barry Diller.