There is no end to the number of cross-medium experiments being done. Here is more proof: Sony Pictures Television will launch the Jeopardy! Google Daily Challenge on June 4. This is a play-at-home...
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TNT and TBS will stream all seven of their original summer series on TNT.tv and TBS.com. Episodes of The Closer, Heartland, Saving Grace, The Company from TNT and House of Payne, The Bill Engvall...
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ABC will test an hour-long user generated news show i-Caught on TV for six weeks from August 6 in an attempt to get the YouTube generation interested in tv news. I suppose that the main distinction to...
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Here is more evidence that newer forms of media are gaining traction in the marketplace. Walt Disney Internet Group is expecting revenues of $1.5 billion this year. Contributing to that growth is...
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Season three of Top Chef is set in Miami with Bravo and Telemundo teaming up to produce a multi-faceted partnership for it. The new deal will span platforms, with both digital initiatives and in-show...
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Here is an informative chart that appeared in the WSJ a little while ago.......
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Lost last week amongst all the fall television show announcements was this little nugget from NBC Universal: Law & Order Criminal Intent will continue its run but on the USA cable network and...
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Our mediocre numbers are proof of our success. Last week, Forbes asked an interesting question "do TV ratings matter as much as they used to for a media conglomerate like Viacom?" "......
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Are you ready to be a Network Television executive? If so, maybe Acceptable.TV is the site for you. Never heard of it? Here is the scoop. You may have been hearing about "upfront week"...
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Nineteen cable and telephone providers in the United States provide about 94% of broadband access to the Internet. And according to Leichtman Research Group, Inc., they "acquired over 2.9 million...
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we still like what you are doing. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Sumner Redstone is today's case in point. He is the majority owner of Viacom, the largest critic of...
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Advertising Age points out "that [the] three-hour slice of the evening [called prime time] last year attracted $15 billion in TV ad spending." Back in the day, networks used to refer to that...
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Bending spoons and laws Ah, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was meant to extend the reach of copyright laws while limiting the liability of online providers from copyright infringement by their...
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Sony Pictures Television plans to repurpose old TV shows, cutting them down to three and a half to five minutes long for online play. As the president of Sony Television described it to The New York...
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Nearly one-third of U.S. households do not have Internet access, nor do they plan to get it, according to a new report from Parks Associates. At this point, these people, representing 29 percent of...
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I summarized an article from Variety below because some of you are interested in newer technologies. A cell phone with an HD screen that tricks your brain into thinking it's watching a 48-inch...
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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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I have a problem with Nielsen Ratings for each commercial aired on television. Philosophically, the media provider is responsible for delivering an audience and the advertiser is responsible for...
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