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Daily Archives : Nov 30, 2008

Ad Frequency Irks Viewers

Ubiquity Indicates Marketers May Be Making Fewer Spots

Column: Give Broadband a Sporting Chance

On any given Sunday, millions of Americans sink into their couches and watch football on their gigantic plasma-screen high-definition television sets from morning until night. So what’s a sports fan to do if you want to go cable-free, as I…

Directories Lead the Way for Early Adopters

With Vast Volume of Online Content, Users Target Help

Sell-Off Speculation Swirls Around CBS

Analysts See Interest in Viacom, Due to Cable Properties, but Not Network

The TV Ad of the Future Begins Now

Far From Near Extinction, 30-Second Commercials Can Be a New Frontier

Stations’ Car Trouble

In the past decade, New York’s TV stations have survived lousy network programming, a vanishing prime-time audience, media fragmentation, the economic fallout of Sept. 11 and the writers strike. Whether they can make it through Detroit’s collapse is another story….

Editorial: A Bad Time to Choose: Why SAG Should Delay

Once again, the gun is loaded, cocked and pointed straight at the television industry’s head. Will its leaders once again pull the trigger? Will a labor union and the media companies again fail to compromise, harming not only themselves but…

Diverse Voices: Multicultural Casting Thrives in Sci-Fi Shows

When it comes to stories about the strange and unusual, nothing beats science fiction. Whether it’s exploring the mystery of life on other planets, in other dimensions or in our own backyards, this is one genre where there are no…

TV Plays Music in New Ways

From ‘Idol’ to Interactivity, Music Programming Has Come a Long Way Since MTV Launched Music Video

BET Looks Ahead

Aims to Keep Music Programming in Tune With Technology