Tribune Acquires CastTV
Wade Roush12/17/10
CastTV, a four-year-old video search site in San Francisco backed by investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Ron Conway, and Marc Andreessen, has been acquired by Tribune Media Services of Chicago, according to an announcement yesterday. Tribune sells access to a database of TV and movie information that’s used in media guides published by Microsoft, Google, TiVo, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Amazon, The New York Times, and other companies. Tribune said the CastTV acquisition would enhance this database and give customers “access to all the metadata necessary to create entertainment-discovery guides that direct consumers to programs available on linear, on-demand and online video platforms.” Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
