Politics

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Nielsen is reporting that nearly 40 million Americans watched the Inauguration of President Barack Obama on television. While the largest television audience recorded during an inauguration came for Ronald Reagan in 1981 (41.8 million viewers), a pure TV rating is Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Inauguration of President Barack Obama effectively spiked web traffic yesterday and put a lot of stress on many sites who were streaming the event. CNN said that it had over 21.3 million video streams during their nine-hour online coverage. 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. It looks like the transition to digital television is going to be delayed for 90 days. My sources inside the Beltway tell me it’s a done deal. Fearful that an overwhelming crowd at the Inauguration may hinder cell phone service, Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. House Democrats have proposed injecting an additional $650 million into the digital TV coupon program. The government mandated program, which is set to run out of money, was originally given $1.34 billion for the coupon program. While the Bush administration 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. 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 →