Why #NBCFail Is #Doomed
This article originally ran on Digiday It sure sucks to be NBC this week. The Peacock Network is at the center of yet another Twitter-centric firestorm around a relatively minor First World Problem...
View ArticleDo We Really Need Another Movie Channel?
The latest from Laura Frankel of KIT digital Content Solutions Someone once said to me that there is not enough revenue to support all the content that exists today; not to mention what is coming...
View ArticleApple’s iTunes Problem
Apple does a lot of things right, but iTunes video isn’t one of them. I’ve rarely had a smooth experience with the service, and my recent experience shows they’ve not gotten any better. With Hurricane...
View ArticleFour Things Australian TV Broadcasters Could do to Become Better User-Centric...
2013 is shaping up to be a massive year in the Aussie broadcast TV industry. Online ad revenues are about to overtake free-to-air (FTA) TV ad spend, there’s talk of a consortium of FTA channels...
View ArticleWhy “Cord Nevers” Don’t Worry Me
The latest study to put the television business in a tizzy is a study from TDG that shows the number of “Pay TV refugees” — users who have broadband but not TV– growing from 9.5% to 12.5% over the past...
View Article“TV” or “Video”: A Rose By Any Other Name…
It is frequently debated nowadays whether “television” is still the right word for all the video entertainment we watch these days on a multitude of screens, given that so much of it comes from sources...
View ArticleThe TV Business: A Primer For The Uninformed
It’s a relentless drumbeat: the TV industry is dead. It’s just like the music industry. 20somethings are avoiding the cord. I want HBO a la carte. YouTube will kill cable. The TV industry is dead. And...
View ArticleTalking TV On TV: KIT’s Alan Wolk on The Brian Lehrer Show
KIT’s Global Lead Analyst Alan Wolk appeared on the Brian Lehrer Show last week along with Lost Remote blogger Natan Edelsburg and Tampa Bay Times TV critic Eric Deggens. Topics included the reaction...
View ArticleThe Meteor Cometh
So for a long time, we’ve been talking about the mythical meteor that was going to hit the TV industry and wipe out all the dinosaurs. Because there didn’t seem to be a logical out to the situation we...
View ArticleMaybe The Meteor Is Inside A Roku Box
We talk a lot about how it’s going to take a meteor to disrupt the way we watch television, so tightly bound are the legal arrangements that impede innovation. But maybe that meteor is already here and...
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