Products that enable Internet-based television will be one key spotlight at CES this week. The Wall St. Journal (sub. req.) takes a look at the big players in this potentially huge market — key excerpts

Paul Kedrosky comments:

What I find most interesting is how many of them I didn’t know until I saw this list… Some of my unfamiliarity is explained by the following bit of text attached to the figure: “Visitors age 12-24 are more like

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A short while ago, TiVo (TIVO) and EchoStar (DISH) announced initiatives to enter the portable media market, enabling their customers to download video files onto their PCs and portable devices. Now satellite TV company DirecTV (DTV) is joining them —

S & P analyst Tuna Amobi upgraded Spanish-language media company Univision (UVN) to ’strong buy’ and raised its price target to $38. Amobi’s notes on the upgrade:

We believe last week’s long-anticipated deal to include Univision in Nielsen’s National Television Index bodes well for improved long-term visibility of the company’s nation

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Carl Howe (Blackfriars Communications) submits: We wrote yesterday about New York state’s investigation into whether the music