Media Related News from Around the Web

• Harmonic performs IPTV bypass for cable
  Source: www.fierceiptv.com   Date: 11-21-2009 17:57:02 GMT
  Harmonic has joined the ranks of BigBand Networks, Motorola and other vendors that are offering the cable TV industry a route to more advanced IPTV-like services via DOCSIS cable modem termination... Read more More
  
• 3M Launches Consumer Awareness Campaign on TV Energy Consumption
  Source: www.hdtvmagazine.com   Date: 11-21-2009 01:33:32 GMT
  3M’S Optical Systems Division today announced that it has launched a consumer awareness campaign in an effort to raise awareness of household TV energy consumption and what to consider when purchasing an energy efficient TV. Specifically, the company is hoping to provide valuable information to More
  
• ESPN Suspends Superstar Writer Bill Simmons From Using Twitter
  Source: www.businessinsider.com   Date: 11-20-2009 22:55:00 GMT
  Simmons Tweeted, "Hey WEEI: You were wrong, I did a Boston interview today. With your competition. Rather give them ratings over deceitful scumbags like you." It looks like he has since deleted the Tweet. More
  
• Stations Plot Life After Oprah
  Source: Broadcasting & Cable   Date: 11-20-2009 18:28:43 GMT
  Stations that have benefited handsomely—while paying handsomely—from airing Oprah Winfrey are ramping up the brainstorming on what to do with the vital time slot when the talk titan departs local television in September 2011. More
  
• YouTube pulls a Hulu -- yanking API access from Popcorn Hour, other TV-connected devices
  Source: www.engadget.com   Date: 11-20-2009 16:59:00 GMT
  Hope you weren't enjoying watching YouTube on the television screen, Popcorn Hour and other set-top box manufacturers have been given notice by the n More
  
• A Tearful Winfrey Explains Her Departure
  Source: mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com   Date: 11-20-2009 16:17:20 GMT
  Oprah Winfrey confirmed to viewers what she told her staff members on Thursday afternoon: that she is ending her successful daytime talk show in September 2011. More
  
• Response To California's Large-Screen TV Regulation
  Source: news.slashdot.org   Date: 11-20-2009 15:55:00 GMT
  An anonymous reader writes "It's great that unelected bureaucrats in California are clamoring to save energy, but when they target your big-screen TVs for elimination, consumers and manufacturers are apt to declare war. CEDIA and the CEA are up in arms over this. Audioholics has an interesting More
  
• Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Thurs., Nov. 19) -- tighter 'n' tighter at 10 p.m., electrical fire included
  Source: www.unclebarky.com   Date: 11-20-2009 15:44:02 GMT
  A fire knocked out NBC5's late night lineup Thursday. nbcdfw photo By ED BARK Oarsmen/women are rowing ever more furiously in the bowels of the big Ben-Hur boats. The headmasters are cracking their whips, demanding suck-you-in stories, killer promos, hooks, lines, sinkers –– whatever it takes. More
  
• 3 Reasons to Choose DIRECTV Over Cable TV
  Source: www.directstartv.com   Date: 11-20-2009 15:35:11 GMT
  The days of flipping through the same three or four channels and settling on one of the few major networks available are gone. Today, cable and satellite TV providers boast networks with hundreds of channels, On Demand programming and DVR recording capabilities. So how do you know if cable or More
  
• Foxlife comes to an end in France
  Source: www.broadbandtvnews.com   Date: 11-20-2009 13:59:27 GMT
  Fox International Channels decided to close down the French version of Foxlife on December 31sr. The channel was launched in 2005 but did not manage to find More
  
• TSL wins Royal Television Society award
  Source: www.audioprointernational.com   Date: 11-20-2009 11:51:57 GMT
  PAM2-3G16 professional audio monitor recognised for innovation TSL Professional Products Group has won a Royal Television Society 2009 Innovation Awa... More
  
• ESPN Tries Live 3-D Coverage of College Football Telecast
  Source: fullres.blogspot.com   Date: 11-20-2009 08:05:21 GMT
  ESPN will present a 3-D telecast of a college football game Saturday, Sept. 12, between the No. 4 ranked University of Southern California (USC) at No. 6 ranked Ohio State to specially equipped theaters across the country. More
  
• Time Warner Cable Calls MSNBC "The No. 2 News Network"
  Source: www.mediabistro.com   Date: 07-22-2009 22:12:16 GMT
  Jobs and recruiting for media professionals in journalism, on-line content, book publishing, TV, radio, PR, graphic design, photography, and advertising More
  
• Discovery brings back 'boom-de-ah-da'
  Source: community.post-gazette.com   Date: 11-20-2009 05:01:00 GMT
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette TV editor Rob Owen covers TV from a national and local perspective. A couple years ago, Discovery Channel introduced a winning image spot called "Boom-d-ah-da." Now the networks has revived it , using the same song and setting it to different images: *** I received an e-mail More
  
• GE And Vivendi Play 'Poulet' (at Forbes.com)
  Source: www.forbes.com   Date: 11-20-2009 01:56:42 GMT
  Both sides have reasons to talk tough over NBC Universal. Comcast will just have to wait. More
  
• Oprah Winfrey to Announce 2011 End to Her TV Show (at The Wall Street Journal Online)
  Source: online.wsj.com   Date: 11-20-2009 01:51:42 GMT
  Oprah Winfrey's iconic television talk show will end in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air, her production company said Thursday More
  
• CEDIA Outraged By California Energy Commissions (CEC) Approval Of HDTV Energy-Efficiency Standard
  Source: www.widescreenreview.com   Date: 11-20-2009 01:38:16 GMT
  CEDIA Outraged By California Energy Commission s (CEC) Approval Of HDTV Energy-Efficiency Standard, Widescreen Review Webzine features new blu-ray reviews, home theater equipment reviews, and updated news daily More
  
• Ikea retains Mediacom and Match
  Source: www.bandt.com.au   Date: 11-20-2009 01:03:03 GMT
  Ikea has decided to stick with incumbents Mediacom and Match for its media planning and buying following a global review. More
  
• YouTube Launching Automatic Video Captions
  Source: www.webpronews.com   Date: 11-19-2009 17:00:15 GMT
  YouTube is readying the launch of an automatic captions feature for the site's videos. This and a new automatic caption timing feature will make it easier for anyone to add captions to their videos, and will enable anyone to read captions on more videos. Since the original More
  
• ThePlatform touts TV Everywhere solution to programmers
  Source: Video Business   Date: 11-20-2009 00:00:00 GMT
  The On Demand Online trial, which Comcast is pursuing with various basic and premium cable networks, is based on using authentication technology to make sure that viewers can only see TV programs online that they are already paying for through their cable-TV subscriptions. More