Jimmy Kimmel Live has become the first late night "Shazamable" show, meaning it supports the company's second screen app, which uses automatic content recognition (ACR) technology to trigger interactive apps that sync up with the live program.
Aereo CEO Che Kanojia defends the New York-based startup, which retransmits broadcast signals over tiny antenna arrays for streaming to subscriber's devices, while Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, whose company owns NBCUniversal, differed with Kanojia over Aereo's premise, drawing parallels with the recent retrans battle between CBS and Time Waner Cable.
Kid Rock, who made quite a splash at the start of his 2013 Best Night Ever Tour by working out a deal with ticketing agencies that guaranteed $20 tickets for regular fans, played recently at the Sleep Train Amphitheater in Wheatland, Calif.
Sunday night's finale of Emmy award-winning series "Breaking Bad" didn't just break a viewing record for AMC. The episode also drew a record-setting number of pirated downloads for the series.