Techno-politics

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Slumdog Millionaire and HBO lead the way at the Golden Globes last night. Danny Boyle’s film about a game show contestant from Mumbai took home four Golden Globes, while HBO took home seven for shows like John Adams, In Treatment and 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. President-elect Barack Obama has joined the Consumers Union in asking congress to delay the digital television transition. Obama noted “inadequate funding” for the program as a prime reason to delay the transition, which is scheduled to happen 28 days after Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. CBS CEO Les Moonves got Time Warner Cable to pay higher fees to broadcast CBS. Time Warner Cable now will be able to broadcast CBS, as well as its Showtime networks, through 2013. Moonves also told a Citigroup conference that Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Auto sales in December were the worst in 15 years, with sales falling 36%. While US manufacturers are hurting, Toyota actually had the worst sales report, with a 37% decline in sales. With Automotive accounting for as much as a 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. The FCC has canceled their December 18th meeting meant to discuss the future of Chairman Kevin Martin’s proposed free nationwide Wi-Fi. After receiving letters from Senator Jay Rockefeller and Congressman Henry Waxman, the FCC lacked a consensus to move forward Continue Reading →

The Bush Administration is opposing FCC Chair Kevin Martin’s proposed free nationwide Wi-Fi network. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said a national Wi-Fi network “would likely lead to congested and inefficiently used broadband, and it would be inconsistent with the Administration’s view that spectrum should be allocated by markets rather than governments.” Time Warner CEO Jeff Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The House Energy and Commerce Committee released a scathing 110 page report titled “Deception and Distrust: The Federal Communications Commission under Kevin J. Martin.” The report claims Martin manipulated findings on FCC reports on “a la carte” channels, as well as Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. President-elect Barack Obama announced that broadband availability would be a major part of his public works project. In a video distributed over the Internet, Obama declared “It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband Continue Reading →