2.3 Minute Summary of a 56 video conversation During a recent presentation at the Paley Center in New York City, the president of ad revenue for Fox Networks Group Joe Marchese and the president and COO of Fox Sports Eric Shanks raised the following points. Sports Provide Mass Audiences for Marketers Shanks: In 1996, advertising […]
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“This is huge.” Eddy Cue is right. The death of the TV bundle is near.
March 9, 2015 
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TV insiders have always felt that HBO was one of the most important elements for holding the bundle together. Last fall, in a watershed announcement, HBO announced it would offer a direct to consumer OTT service. But there wasn’t much to comment about – since no details were released. Well, now we have commercial terms – and […]
Continue readingSteve Jobs has invented the Next Big Thing, death be damned — Human Computer Workflows, iPad & iPhone & the Singularity
January 17, 2014 0 Comments
Two weeks ago, Farhad Manjoo of WSJ wrote a great year-end round-up on tech. In it, he argues that pundits should stop lamenting the lack of a “next big thing” — because it’s already here. Namely, the smartphone and tablet. http://on.wsj.com/1kZLd2J But I found something else in the article that underscored his point — and […]
Continue readingVariety: “Big TV Killed the DVR”
January 17, 2014 0 Comments
http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/big-media-hopes-to-kill-the-ad-zapping-dvr-with-video-on-demand-1201061036/ Great article — including the sad truth that industry forces are partly to blame for the stagnation of DVR technology. (Witness TiVo’s current experience with the Comcast Xfinity Cable Card — it’s awful — e.g. watching VOD forces me to cancel in-process DVR recordings.) I’ve been in the TV technology business for many years […]
Continue readingHuman Computer Workflows — My First Blog Post on the Singularity
January 13, 2014 0 Comments
Two weeks ago, Farhad Manjoo of WSJ wrote a great year-end round-up on tech. In it, he argues that pundits should stop lamenting the lack of a “next big thing” — because it’s already here. Namely, the smartphone and tablet. http://on.wsj.com/1kZLd2J But I found something else in the article that underscored his point — and […]
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