Random observations and opinions from the CBS affiliates convention last week in Las Vegas: CBS Interactive President Quincy Smith, CBS Corp.’s fast-rising, fast-talking new-media star, may finally be the casually dressed, running-shoe’d dude who can get the network and its…
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The producers list for “Why We Fight,” the Peabody-winning documentary on the United States military-industrial complex, runs to more than a dozen organizations, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to the United Kingdom’s BBC, Estonia’s ETV and numerous European broadcasters. Conspicuously…
In IFC’s documentary short series “Beyond Borders: Personal Stories From a Small Planet,” 10-year-old Mohamed Sidibay talks about how he escaped life as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. In the film he’s a fourth-grader who likes to play soccer,…
Exec Shift Should Not Affect This Upfront
Documentaries are enjoying a renaissance these days, at least on cable and in theatrical release, but that wasn’t the case a few years back in Great Britain when the concept of the Web site FourDocs (www.channel4.com/fourdocs) was formed. There was…
I am not thrilled by the politically controlled Federal Communications Commission and the rules that it has either implemented or wishes to have available to implement. I support the notion instilled in me as a child, which I have modified…
The player: Ted Briscoe, CEO of Vibe Solutions, parent company of video service Pyro.TV The play: Vibe Solutions recently introduced Pyro.TV, a site that organizes, aggregates and syndicates Web video. Online video creators can pair up with Pyro.TV via its…