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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Industry
Retransmission Consent as Awards Show
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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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