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by martino on August 4, 2007
One of the smartest people in the television business that I have ever met is John Malone. Smart in a strategic sense - that is, knowing when to buy or sell an asset because the business was about to ...
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by martino on July 9, 2007
Movie studios do not like piracy of their content. To date, they have mostly used the "sue the bastards until they stop" strategy. As they gear up for a future of high-definition DVD release...
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by martino on July 8, 2007
south korea's LG Electronics signed a deal with YouTube to enable mobile phone users to upload, view and share video clips directly from their phones to the site. LG is planning to release handset...
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by martino on June 18, 2007
Sony is pulling the plug on the music and video component of its Connect service in the next couple of months choosing instead to focus on the PlayStation group's technical needs, according to pai...
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by martino on June 11, 2007
The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals overruled the Federal Communications Commission when the FCC decided that Fox was guilty of indecency for the utterance of two expletives in live programming. ...
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by martino on June 8, 2007
The "high-definition" powers that be are teaming up to bring you state-of-the-art HD presentation of a rock star worthy of showing off all that technological prowess. The star (I kid you not...
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by martino on June 4, 2007
Oh, for shame. The end of an era is rapidly descending upon us.
As its fans have feared, Sci Fi's Battlestar Galactica will end its run after this, its fourth season.
Executive producers Ronald...
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by martino on May 30, 2007
apple tv, barely 2-months-old, is already a dud. OK, that's not completely fair because as the picture clearly demonstrates, they can act as a furniture leveler.
"I think I see why," wri...
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by martino on May 21, 2007
says Google: it's not creepy if we have your best interests at heart
Today, let's look a little over the horizon at something that would very likely mutate into the digital television space: ...
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by martino on May 17, 2007
The history channel says it will move to high-definition (HD) in September with a 24-hour HD simulcast channel available on DirecTV.
"The History Channel HD will give our history fanatics an unp...
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by martino on May 12, 2007
For the first time ever, the Indianapolis 500 this year will be broadcast in High-Definition.
ESPN on ABC will air the 91st Indy 500 in high-def on Sunday, May 27 at 1 p.m. ET. The race will take pla...
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by martino on May 11, 2007
For all you fans of Heroes, NBC Digital Entertainment says it will launch an eight-episode Web series May 21 on nbc.com.
Broadcasting and Cable says the series, Inside Heroes, goes behind the scenes ...
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by martino on May 8, 2007
Here is something I would like to see more of: ABC's hit show Lost has a time limit to wrap up all its story lines. The show will stop at the end of the 2010 season. This means that there will be ...
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by martino on May 8, 2007
At the cable show in Las Vegas, Comcast disclosed that it may be investing another $6 Billion in system upgrades. That would fall in line with comments made by Comcast COO Stephen Burke. He said the c...
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by martino on April 24, 2007
I was unable to attend the NAB this year, but one story caught my eye - the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) announced plans to broadcast high-definition video from the moon!
Hirokazu Nishiyam...
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by martino on April 20, 2007
Josh Lovison, content manager for MediaPost, wrote a good article explaining High Definition (HD) TV for us common folk -- both for HD Televisions and HD DVD's. So, here is an edited down copy of ...
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by martino on April 15, 2007
The newspaper site WashingtonPost.com is high-def podcasts, designed to be viewed on HD television and computer screens. All are available on iTunes. The companies award-winning documentary videos are...
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by martino on April 13, 2007
Here is another story that re-enforces the idea that shows that cannot survive the economics of broadcast television can at least move online for fans. Sort of like demoting a ball player to the minor...
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by martino on April 5, 2007
by David Goetzl,
WITH COLLEGE RATINGS EMERGING AND a cadre of cable networks increasingly interested in capturing younger audiences who may view TV outside prime time, male-targeted Spike is launchin...
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by martino on March 23, 2007
"I made the "Vote Different" ad because I wanted to express my feelings about the Democratic primary, and because I wanted to show that an individual citizen can affect the process. The...
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by martino on March 10, 2007
By Garth Johnston -- Broadcasting & Cable
Embracing its Battlestar Galactica fan base, NBCU's Sci Fi Channel introduced a twist on the growing popularity of user-generated content to its Webs...
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by martino on February 27, 2007
BREAKING NEWS
I see that Apple shares are trading down in the pre-market. Driving that is the announcement that the company will delay the shipment of its Apple TV device until mid-March. Apple gave ...
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by martino on February 23, 2007
Hey, there are no protections in Life 2.0
You really must read The Media Guy at Media Works. Often hilarious. As a reader service, Media Guy fields imaginary questions from nonexistent readers. (no...
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by martino on February 16, 2007
Political Correctness Gone Amok
Don't ask me why, but this story amuses me. It turns out that General Motors has caved to pressure from a suicide prevention group and agreed to change an ad that...
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by martino on February 15, 2007
A new way to define niche audiences in a time challenged world
Om Malik at Business 2.0 writes about Mark Hall, a former executive with RealNetworks, and his decision "to address the growing nee...
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by martino on February 12, 2007
For all these decades, Nielsen has not included college students who live in dorms in its national ratings data. They have now reversed that, including roughly 2.1 million students. And according to t...
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by martino on February 12, 2007
Inquiring minds want to know. So here it is ...
The Super Bowl commercial with the highest-rated commercial minute belongs to Hewlett-Packard. It drew 99.5 million viewers at 9:25 p.m. while a Toyota...
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by martino on February 6, 2007
Amazon.com. CinemaNow. iTunes. Wal-Mart?
Yes. Today Wal-Mart is unveiling its video download Web site; the first traditional retailer to do so. We are talking about the download-to-own market not the...
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by martino on February 2, 2007
Multichannel News.
The explosion of a Dutch satellite may delay DirecTV's plans to expand its HDTV offering this year, at least according to one industry watcher. On Tuesday, a $300 million New S...
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by martino on January 25, 2007
During the last few elections, we saw how much political blogs played a part. But now Senator john mccain is testing using 30-second video ads on AOL. The campaign is also running video ads in Google&...
