by Allen Weiner | October 17, 2010 | Comments Off
The news story has received national attention: Some 3 million Cablevision subscribers in New York and New Jersey are being deprived of Fox Network programming because Cablevision, the local cable MSO, and Fox cannot agree to terms on retransmission fees. Fox is looking for $150 million for the coming year for the 12 stations in [...]
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Category: Applications broadcasting Tags: Cablevision, Fox TV, Hulu, Hulu Plus, New York, News Corp, Sezmi, TV
by Allen Weiner | January 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
I won’t go into too much detail here, but my colleagues Andrew Frank and Mike McGuire and I saw a demo of Yahoo!’s new Connected TV widget-based service, and it was impressive. We will provide more insights in subsequent company research reports, but needless to say, Yahoo! has the first mover advantage when it comes [...]
Category: broadcasting Television Tags: CES, Connected TV, TV, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | October 28, 2008 | Comments Off
One video is worth a googol of words. Can you spot the UHF antenna?
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Category: broadcasting Television Video Tags: digital transition, Television, TV
by Allen Weiner | October 15, 2008 | Comments Off
So, when I asked Marissa Mayer at an analyst event a few years back if Google thought of itself as a media company, her answer was a resounding no. Poptub is proof she was right. This rather sad attempt to provide a video guide to the best videos playing on YouTube isn’t nearly as good [...]
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Category: blogging social media Television Web 2.0 Tags: Google, Poptub, Television, TV, Yahoo, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | October 15, 2008 | Comments Off
The former TV critic in me cannot help but recommend the new made-for-the-Web program, “Back on Topps,” featured the Sklar Brothers (Randy and Jason) of “Cheap Seats” fame (an ESPN Classic show that is truly a classic). The premise of the new show, which has new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday, is around the Topps [...]
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Category: blogging social media Television Web 2.0 Tags: ESPN, Jason Sklar, Randy Sklar, Topps. Michael Eisner, TV
by Allen Weiner | October 15, 2008 | 1 Comment
As an update to an earlier post, pioneering online TV service Joost is now fully operational converting from a clunky desktop installed TV 2.0 entity to a more consumer-friendly Flash-based site similar to Hulu. The similarity ends in that Joost has a wide variety of current and retro TV fare (where else can you find [...]
Category: broadcasting Television Web 2.0 Tags: Hulu, Joost, TV, TV 2.0
by Allen Weiner | September 24, 2008 | Comments Off
According to a story in The New York Times, General Electric is getting back into the TV manufacturing business, partnering with Tatung, a Taiwanese electronic company, creating a series of new sets that have Internet capability. The plan is to start with Internet access via a separate box migrating to in-set Internet access next year. [...]
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Category: blogging broadcasting Television Tags: cable, IPTV, NBC, satellite, telco, teleivsion, TV
by Allen Weiner | September 17, 2008 | Comments Off
In 2007, as the video marketplace began to expand with the entry of TV episodes, mashups and shows made specifically for web audiences (aka low attention span theater), it became evident a segment was evolving that was nestled between time-shifted episodes of “Desperate Housewives” and YouTube’s “swinging a cat in the backyard” fare. In a [...]
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Category: advertising broadcasting Television Uncategorized Tags: broadcasting, media, Television, TV
