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MYSPACE AND THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION PARTNER ON THE BROADBAND EMMY AWARDS MySpace Creates Unique Community Empowering Users to Submit Content for Consideration in the 2007 Broadband Emmy Awards LOS ANGELES – January 8, 2007 – MySpace, the world’s leading lifestyle portal, and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, presenters of the Continue Reading →

The crowd went wild as the first dot of glowing red light became visible from atop Stratton Mountain. It was the beginning of the traditional New Year’s Eve Torchlight Parade – about 100 ski instructors each holding a flare, skiing down the mountain in ever-larger synchronized S-turns. It was a truly beautiful sight. As they Continue Reading →

As 2006 draws to a close, I thought it would be fun to list some of the key insights, take-aways and questions inspired by the “year of online video” and highlight some things to watch in 2007. Self Expression: The big news is that “you” are Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.” In a stunning Continue Reading →

RIAA Seeks to Penalize Musicians for Industry Failures “Mechanical royalties currently are out of whack with historical and international rates,” RIAA executive vp and general counsel Steven Marks commented recently. “We hope the judges will restore the proper balance by reducing the rate and moving to a more flexible percentage rate structure so that record Continue Reading →

Welcome to the next installment of Shelly Palmer’s Technophobe’s Guide to HDTV focused on HD Camcorders. Everyone who owns an HDTV set has noticed that the quality of their home movies is somewhat wanting when viewed on an HDTV monitor. This is true. Although, to be honest, MiniDV or even Hi8 probably looks better played Continue Reading →

Aside from working in the TV industry, I am also a television fan and I use vast amounts of the product. In other words, I watch way too much TV! The year is coming to a close and owing to my ridiculous travel schedule, business and family obligations, I just haven’t had time to consume Continue Reading →

TiVo has announced some new services that it says will bring the concept of television/Internet convergence to a new level. You will be able to upload “home movies” (aka user generated content) to your TiVo box and create a “home movie channel” for other TiVo subscribers to watch. Through a relationship with One True Media, Continue Reading →

November 8, 2006 — It’s about 1:30am on the East Coast. Election coverage is winding down. The Democrats took control of the House and everyone is still waiting to see what will happen with the Senate. Of course today’s really big news is that Verizon will be offering YouTube content on its Vcast and FIOS Continue Reading →

“Like our peers in the media industry, we are focused on finding the right business model for professionally created content to be legally distributed on the Internet. We want our audiences to be able to access our programming on every platform and we’re interested in having it live on all forms of distribution in ways Continue Reading →

“Is There an Ad Supported Internet Video Business?” There are only three business models: I pay, you pay or someone else pays. In the media distribution business this is well understood. Networks and stations are ad supported (someone else pays). Premium networks charge a monthly subscription fee (you pay), etc. And, in case you are Continue Reading →