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As I Was Saying
As I Was Saying
By: Gary Arlen
Oh, Grow Up: Digital Oldsters Rock
When you head over the river, through the woods, past TSA screeners and/or tollbooth lines, and you finally get to Grandmother’s house/condo for the holidays, check out how she and gramps are plugged into digital media. They (or maybe it’s you) are likely prodigious users of digital
Capital Letters
Capital Letters
By: John Eggerton
Google's Gaffe?
Show of hands, here. How many people are still looking for the indignity and outrage from the online privacy and “open and transparent digital business practices” worlds about Google’s data harvesting gaffe/mistake/scandal? Does anyone here think that if Comcast or Charter or
MCN Guest Blog
MCN Guest Blog
By: Ken Roulier
And the Golden Globe for Best New TV Show Goes to…Amazon!
Whether you hate Game of Thrones, love Mad Men, get irritated by Suits or were annoyed when Arrested Development was cancelled, don’t you sometimes wish that you could be given the chance to decide which TV shows actually get made?
Mixed Signals
Mixed Signals
By: Jimmy Schaeffler
Pay TV Customer Service: It Demands Improvement
Perspective relative to the bigger and smaller views has always been a critical part of good business. And the U.S. TV business is no different.In the TV business, that sometimes means not only comparing yourself and your performance to others in your same class or industry subsector. It also means
My Turn
My Turn
By: Kent Gibbons
He's Not a Cop, Or An Actor, Though His Name Is Seamus
I was almost out of the room when I thought I spotted Michael Chiklis, and ambled over to chat. It wasn’t too surprising to see the star of The Shield at last Thursday night’s event, a reception thrown by Fox Cable Networks for local advertisers in the New York City area. Actors,
On The Money
On The Money
By: Mike Farell
Help From an Unsung Source
Sometimes it takes a disaster to bring out the best in people, or just to open their eyes to the kindness and compassion that is already there. In the past few days, newspapers and TV newscasts in New York and New Jersey have been full of stories of local residents helping people in areas that
Picture This
Picture This
By: Thomas Umstead
Nickelodeon Demystifying 9/11 For Kids
The cable industry will air more than 30 specials documenting the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks over the next two weeks, but only Nickelodeon will present one targeted to children. Nickelodeon’s Nick News: What Happened? The Story of September 11, 2001 will talk to kids
REYNOLDS RAP
REYNOLDS RAP
By: Mike Reynolds
Series, Nets and Nielsens
When you talk to network executives about which teams they want to win NHL playoff series from ratings perspectives, they become PC and say they’re just rooting for highly competitive encounters, for Games 6s and 7s. Well, national carriers and corporate linemates NBC and Versus for the puck
TV Crush
TV Crush
By: Mary McNamara
Colbert Nation Is Called to Duty: Download Olympic Poster & Follow Instructions
It’s here and it’s awesooooome - Stephen Colbert’s commemorative Olympic poster, designed by Shepard Fairey. Click here and jump to Colbert Nation, to download a poster of your own. Here are your instructions, Colbert Nation, ripped from the website: Nation! Join Stephen on his
Translation Please
Translation Please
By: Leslie Ellis
EBIF in the Wake of Canoe Shakeup
Over the past few weeks, since the dramatic resizing of Canoe Ventures, one question keeps coming up, over and over (and over). It is this: In a world with a much smaller Canoe, what happens to EBIF? Is it - gasp - dead? Since EBIF was invented in 2005 as a way to shoehorn more interactivity into
Viewpoint
Viewpoint
By: Mark Robichaux
Disconnected
When the 108-year-old hickory tree came crashing through our family room on Monday night, the house shook as if mighty Thor had swung his hammer down on our roof in Stamford, Conn. We were all awake — my wife and the two kids — and, only seconds before, as the wind roared through the
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