Discovery Makes Game of 1549 Flight
Discovery Channel has made a video game out of US Airways Flight 1549’s crash landing in the Hudson River, the New York Post reports. On the network’s Web site, users also try to safely land a jet in the water,…
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In-Stat: Consumer Spending on Broadband May Drop This Year
Consumers could cut back their spending on subscription television, broadband and mobile services by $5 billion in the next 12 months in response to the economic downturn, research company In-Stat reports. For TVWeek’s comprehensive coverage of how the recession is…
Everyone’s Making Online Video
Everyone from giant media companies to individuals with a little time and a camcorder are joining the competition for attention of Web video watchers, USA Today reports. The paper sites projections that 187 billion videos will be streamed this year,…
Column: Spinning the Web on the TV Set
Welcome to the wild orgy of content. The media ecosystem of Internet video, mobile entertainment and traditional television is turning into a mad, beautiful mess where everyone is a competitor and everyone is a customer. As Maurice Sendak famously wrote…
Amazon Deal Boosts ‘Over-the-Top’ VOD
Roku Delivering Content via Broadband, Bypassing Cable
Guest Commentary: Stations Must Embrace Internet to Stay Relevant
“I will never break a story on the Internet.” —anonymous local news director It was 2004, and Jonathan Leess had just started the interactive division of the CBS Television Stations group. With a vision of integrating content and advertising on-air…
NBC Goes ‘Nonstop’ on Subchannel
Stations Try Various Genres to Fill Additional Channels on Digital Spectrum
Telling the Never-Ending DTV Story
Finding New Ways to Cover the Transition Poses a Challenge to Newsroom Staffs
Mixed-Up Signals
Broadcasters Still Need to Inform Confused Consumers About DTV Any Way They Can
NBCU on Online Branded Content
According to NBCU digital studio VP Cameron Death, “there’s a challenge and an opportunity within the next two years, where the brand can become the content” in online advertising projects, MediaPost reports. Death spoke at the 4A conference this week…