If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Sources say a deal between Disney and Hulu is “basically done.” If it happens, Disney will take a 30% share of Hulu for $50 million of marketing money. The deal would make Disney, NBCU and News Corp equal partners in the Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Despite selling its building, The New York Times sent a memo out to employees yesterday notifying them of an all around pay cut. The Grey Lady will cut newsroom salaries by 5% and will also cut an additional 100 jobs from Continue Reading →
Today’s thought experiment is going to help us visualize the future of commercial message management. Of course message management is just a way to describe the way content gets to a consumer. We have a bunch of other names for it: television, radio and newspapers, to name a few. Traditionally, these media have been used Continue Reading →
Hulu, the PR-darling video portal owned by NBCU and News Corp, pulled all of its content from CBS’s newly re-launched TV.com. They also removed their programming from the Boxee application (an open source social media player and content management platform). Everyone seems to think they know why this is a good idea or a bad Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Yesterday almost 40% of television stations in the United States made the switch from analog to digital signal. Despite a delay from the government, the transition went off without a hitch. Most major broadcasters are still set to cut their Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. 421 television stations are set to switch to digital television today. In total, 641 television stations, roughly 36% of stations, will have already made the switch, despite the government mandated delay. The FCC granted all 10 stations who pleaded financial hardship Continue Reading →
Earlier this week, I was invited to speak at Jeff Pulver’s Social Communications Summit #SocComm. It was one of the most fascinating events I have ever attended. First, there were a group of extraordinary speakers including: @garyvee, @jeffjarvis, @kenbot and @chrisbrogan. But, as extraordinary as the speakers were, the attendees were more so. Everyone I Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. FCC chairman Michael Copps noted that TV stations looking to make the digital transition before June 12th may be barred from doing so. As many as 690 local TV stations want to make the transition now to save thousands of Continue Reading →
Excerpted from my upcoming book Get Digital: Reinventing Yourself and Your Career for the 21st Century Economy (2009, Lake House Press) Feeding near real time news to the public has been around since the American Telegraph Company invented the first stock ticker. The device, which fed stock quotes over long distances, utilized the wired telegraph Continue Reading →
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 →