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07/25/2005
Summit Happenings
VOOM will host a screening lounge to preview its content offerings. Rainbow promises a "major announcement" in the coming weeks regarding HD content tiers. — WE will hype "Bridezillas" by handing out Philly pretzels and branded water bottles to commuters at 30th St Station Mon (9am-1pm). — Q TV is using Summit to kick off […]
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05/23/2005
Guest Column
by Marc O. Smith Industry of Acquiescence Washington D.C.’s, surrealism never disappoints. The latest installment arrived courtesy of the White House Correspondents Dinner and the CTPAA Forum a few weeks back. The night before cable flaks gathered at the Ritz to fine-tune their strategy of indecency acquiescence, the First Lady brought down the Hilton with […]
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05/09/2005
MaxFax…
Commentary By Paul Maxwell Check Out http://www.lightover.com/epic/ … right now. Really. Go watch this provocative, short, online film by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. Watch it, then come back … [8-minute break … presuming you’ve got a cable modem connection.] The "movie" – called Epic for Evolving Personalized Information Construct – purports to be a […]
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04/18/2005
TV Critics Review VOD
For some of the country’s top TV critics, VOD’s a good, if not spectacular, option. If their cable operators had more programming (and if the service were easier to use), they might even start writing about it. We asked a few members of the Television Critics Association for their opinions on VOD programming based on […]
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04/08/2005
Deals
Now we know why YES Net’s Ray Hopkins and Time Warner Cable’s Melinda Witmer didn’t make the trip to San Francisco this week. They were holed up in their offices working out a carriage renewal that will see TW Cable launch YES’s HD feed. Neither side would comment on specifics of the deal, but sources […]
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04/07/2005
Schizophrenia: Programmers Bracing for Ad Model Challenge
Some of the top minds in media are concerned about disruptions to the revenue TV receives from advertising in light of devices that block ads. They’re also aware that the ubiquity of content could be a double-edged sword, particularly if consumers are able to bypass ads. TiVo users currently don’t skip many ads, "they’re true […]