Instead of multicast must-carry, broadcasters have retransmission consent by which they’re getting paid for carriage on cable and satellite systems. Who knew, right? If they’d have won multicast must-carry, would they be pressing so hard on retrans and ’splaining market forces to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.)? Things might look a little different on that front, but urgent needs evolve quickly in the fog factory that is Washington, D.C.
By Deborah McAdams on
11/19/2010 8:34 AM
Instead of multicast must-carry, broadcasters have retransmission consent by which they’re getting paid for carriage on cable and satellite systems. Who knew, right? If they’d have won multicast must-carry, would they be pressing so hard on retrans and ’splaining market forces to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.)? Things might look a little different on that front, but urgent needs evolve quickly in the fog factory that is Washington, D.C.
|
The purported justification for reallocating TV spectrum for broadband is predicated in large part on anticipated growth in wireless data traffic. The latest spectrum demand white paper from the Federal Communications Commission states that “mobile data demand is expected to
By Deborah McAdams on
11/19/2010 5:39 AM
The purported justification for reallocating TV spectrum for broadband is predicated in large part on anticipated growth in wireless data traffic. The latest spectrum demand white paper from the Federal Communications Commission states that “mobile data demand is expected to
|
Fox may have won its recent retrans fight with Cablevision but the skirmish represents just the beginning of a new era of access battles.
By Deborah McAdams on
11/17/2010 1:57 AM
Fox may have won its recent retrans fight with Cablevision but the skirmish represents just the beginning of a new era of access battles.
|
The Internet is becoming to television what Walmart was to small towns. Walmart represented a cultural shift within households from procurement to consumption. We bought stuff because we could, not because we needed it. Who knew the cheap-consumption mindset would become collectively pathological and translate into all-out anarchy online, particularly for TV?
By Deborah McAdams on
11/12/2010 6:02 AM
The Internet is becoming to television what Walmart was to small towns. Walmart represented a cultural shift within households from procurement to consumption. We bought stuff because we could, not because we needed it. Who knew the cheap-consumption mindset would become collectively pathological and translate into all-out anarchy online, particularly for TV?
|
Thanks to the Internet, humiliation can be doled out by
strangers across the globe within seconds. So it was for a news crew at KGTV-TV
in San Diego this week. A video clip from a somewhat disastrous news broadcast
made the rounds, prompting repeated speculation that it may have been the
“worst newscast opening ever.”
Granted, the one-minute clip is a comedy of errors.
And granted, working in media comes with complementary back targets. But what
if everyone’s work performance were
so conveniently public?
By Deborah McAdams on
11/5/2010 6:11 AM
Thanks to the Internet, humiliation can be doled out by
strangers across the globe within seconds. So it was for a news crew at KGTV-TV
in San Diego this week. A video clip from a somewhat disastrous news broadcast
made the rounds, prompting repeated speculation that it may have been the
“worst newscast opening ever.”
Granted, the one-minute clip is a comedy of errors.
And granted, working in media comes with complementary back targets. But what
if everyone’s work performance were
so conveniently public?
|