In the late 1940s, coin-operated televisions seemed like the wave of the future. Post-WWII startups with names like like Covideo and Televista, along with established players like General Electric, ...

These days, paying for TV programming is a fact of life. You pay your cable company or some streaming service and the only question is do you want Apple TV and Hulu or would you rather switch one out ...

Paramount Pictures Corp., which has invested more in television than any other moviemaker, last week invested another estimated $250,000. It bought a half interest in International Telemeter Corp., ...

Pay TV will get a thorough test in the U.S.—and soon. The fact seemed inevitable last week, as another “free” but dismal TV season was running out, and more and more plans were firming up for what the ...