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Retransmission Consent as Awards Show

March 13, 2010
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Retransmission Consent as Awards Show

Beyond the awards meted out at the Oscars last week, what happened between Cablevision and WABC, and what does it tell us about retransmission consent?
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The Warner Archive Program and Hollywood History

March 12, 2010
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The Warner Archive Program and Hollywood History

The studio vaults have opened -- but is that a good thing?
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Network Branding, Convergence, and Hasbro/Discovery’s New Kids Channel

February 15, 2010
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Network Branding, Convergence, and Hasbro/Discovery’s New Kids Channel

What's in a name? Hasbro and Discovery begin branding efforts for their new joint venture cable network debuting later this year.
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What Does It Mean To Care About The Grammys?

February 1, 2010
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What Does It Mean To Care About The Grammys?

Clearly, people are once again watching the telecast, even if one cannot be certain that most viewers ‘care’ about the popular artists and their music in the same way that they did in days gone by.
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The Tester

January 31, 2010
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The Tester

Sony's new reality TV program on the PlayStation Network continues to raise questions about audience/player (mis)perceptions of labor and production in the games industry.
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Look at Your Hands: Computing, Embodiment, and the iPad

January 28, 2010
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Look at Your Hands: Computing, Embodiment, and the iPad

While much of yesterday’s Internet conversation centered on whether the iPad is a game changer for TV, gaming, publishing, and future of ebooks, I want to address the potentially unnerving aspects of how Apple constructed the user yesterday and point out that while Apple may be a global company, its users are definitely not.
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The Plight of the Rockstar Wife

January 24, 2010
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The Plight of the Rockstar Wife

In the past few weeks, a fresh controversy about the working conditions in the industry of game development has arisen, this time centered on Rockstar San Diego.
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THWIP!+CTRL+DEL

January 12, 2010
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THWIP!+CTRL+DEL

Only 8 years into the Spider-Man film franchise, Sony's decision to start from scratch seems a little hasty. Why reboot Spider-Man?
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“As the world turns”. . .it also stops

December 9, 2009
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“As the world turns”. . .it also stops

The world stops spinning September 2010! It's not the apocalypse, but it is the end of another Procter & Gamble, long-running soap opera with a loyal fan base. What does this mean for the future of the daytime "sudser"?
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Comcast-NBC-U-OMG

December 3, 2009
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Comcast-NBC-U-OMG

It's official: Comcast has purchased a majority share of NBC-Universal from parent conglom GE, owning 51% to GE's 49%. Today's New York Times reports that the papers have been signed and the deal has been made, though the purchase still needs to be approved by regulatory bodies--a process that could take up to...
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Aren’t Ratings Meant to Go Up During Sweeps?

December 1, 2009
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Aren’t Ratings Meant to Go <i>Up</i> During Sweeps?

With the first sweeps weeks of the television season now behind us, the numbers suggest that it was a pretty lousy month. Indeed, far more shows experienced their lowest ratings of the season than did better.
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