Grant McCracken has a good post about Katie Couric,news and CBS. He suggests that there's a big oppoortunity to fuse news and entertainment or to bring the best of TV idolization to the news format."Perhaps it's time to move away from the "journalism" model and start again. The...
The Beatles are inescapable; Paul McCartney just released a new album almost to the day of the 40th Anniversary of the release of Sgt Pepper’s and in Las Vegas, Nevada, Cirque du Soleil’s “Love”; an interpretation of The Beatles music, has been playing to sell out crowds....
Last week, Ben Silverman was made co-chair of NBC Entertainment. In an interview with TV Week he was asked what kind of projects the "community should be bringing to the network.This is his reponse."I want to be aspirational. I want to be positive. I think people are so busy and overwhelmed...
What happens when talent hijacks your spot and turns into something else entirely and then throws it up on YouTube? This fake Nissan spot is one example.
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Techcrunch has a post about a new online media company Next New Networks that plans create new “micro networks”. However, it appears that many of its channels appear to fall into fairly macro topic areas-There’s an indy film channel that will find itself going head to head with...
The Guardian reports on three pilot concepts for reality shows being considered by the networks.RealityLASIK - a show following models as they go through laser surgery to improve their eyesight;Wedding SOS, featuring betrothed couples stressed out about their pending nuptials and in need of a...
Mobile phones turned the mob into photojournalists, now its transforming them into broadcasters, thanks to Kyte TV.
This letter appeared in the Financial Times newspaper today. Dear Economist,Having recently acquired a personal video recorder, I find myself using the time-shift facility when watching commercial TV.ADVERTISEMENT ( a web advertisment appeared here!!)I
start watching a programme around 15 minutes...
Janko Roettgers over at NewTeeVee has a great post about Joost and its killer app, metadata."Imagine a personalized TV channel that only serves you shows your friends are literally talking about. Or think about the way this could transform programming itself. What if the Lost folks didn’t do...
Observers of the media and entertainment scene understand the tremendous power of torrent sites to wreck domestic havoc for the networks. It’s well known that 720p copies of Fox’s 24 find their way onto torrent sites 20 minutes after the show goes off the air.However, most people tend...
YouTube is a billion channel universe, but explore it by brand and you quickly notice that this ecosystem has different component parts. Influx went through a hypothetical exercise; we tried imagining a “channel” for Sony’s PS3. Exploring some of the 44k videos on the site and...
Here are 7 new rules for brands wanting to play in the new landscape of online video, it's a follow up to the previous post on big brands experimenting with online video.1. Creativity Rules- The bar has been raised to 11In the past, when brands used to look at creativity, they...
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