Mobile & Wireless

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. NBC took in $206 million on ad sales during the Super Bowl. With spots selling for $3 million, Jeff Zucker noted that NBC’s ability to sell out its ad spots is “a testament to the dogged determination of Seth Winter [SVP, Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. As quickly as the House defeated the DTV delay bill, the Senate approved an amended bill calling for the delay. An aid for Senator Jay Rockefeller has confirmed that the Senate passed a bill to delay the transition until June 12. Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After much debate, President Barack Obama will get to keep his PDA. However, reports are that he won’t be using a BlackBerry, rather a Sectera Edge, “developed for the National Security Agency’s Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic Device (SME PED)” Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Looking for the best ways to follow the Inauguration at work? Hulu will offer a live stream of the Inauguration of President Barack Obama, while both CNN and C-Span will offer streams on their websites. Facebook will also log updates Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. President-elect Barack Obama’s plan to delay the DTV transition may postpone the switch 90 days. Currently, Senator Jay Rockefeller is preparing the legislation, which AT&T, one of the telco’s who purchased spectrum to be available February 17th, endorses. However, Verizon Continue Reading →

As I listened to President-elect Obama‘s speech the other day, I was tickled that he chose this moment to promote my upcoming book, Get Digital: Reinventing yourself and your career for the 21st Century Economy (2009, Lake House Press). Actually, he wasn’t promoting my book, he was articulating some of his thoughts about how digital Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is expected to run out of money to promote the Digital Television Transition. The program, which provides subsidies for households affected by the digital transition, estimated it would be able to cover 51.5 million Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. In reaction to Jeff Zucker’s comment that the old TV business is dying, CBS exec Les Moonves is adamant that “the model ain’t broken. The model works.” Moonves also harped on the importance of local television, saying “We do not Continue Reading →

It’s official; we’re in a recession. Which is incredibly bad news to get at the opening of the holiday shopping season. Not that anyone needed the National Bureau of Economic Research (the private organization charged with making such determinations) to tell us that times are tough. We all know it too well. No matter what Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The WSJ is reporting that former AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller maybe purchasing Yahoo for between $28-30 billion, roughly $22 a share. Yahoo’s stock benefited from the rumor, up 7% to $11.50. While the rumor mill is heating up, it should Continue Reading →