Image via Wikipedia Canwest’s decision to ramp up the number of TV shows it offers online might prove to be the right strategy. It is going to stream more than 50 top series – including Knight Rider, 90210, House, Heroes, The Office and Deal or No Deal - on the web. Comments by Canwest executive Barbara Williams suggest the media giant has realised that the way people consume TV is
PDF News editors are slowly realising that video on the web is not TV. And interestingly, it is often newspapers that are leading the way. In this clip on Beet.tv, Vivian Schiller, general manager at the NYTimes.com, explains how she had to unlearn much of what she knew about video journalism after years in TV news at CNN and Discovery. For example, TV folks try to avoid having a talking head,
This cartoon from Rob Cottingham, president of a web community consultancy, Social Signal, says it all: (Via Inside the CBC) Print
Canadians are spending more time online and less time watching television, finds the CRTC’s annual Broadcasting Policy Monitoring Report. This is hardly surprising, given that the 70% of Canadian homes are now online, up by 6% from the previous year. And high-speed access is also on the increase, rising from 36% to 60% over the past four years. But the Internet is not killing TV. According to the CRTC report,
ABC’s Merry Miller interviews actress Holly Hunter about an upcoming TV show: (Via Lost Remote) Print
At a time when established TV networks are struggling to work out what their future might look like, Google has a radical idea of where TV is going. Speaking at at iTV Con, a conference about Internet TV, Vincent Dureau, Google’s head of TV technology, applied the net giant’s approach to television. As we all know, television is facing an identity crisis – lots more niche channels, Youtube, DVRs. This
It has been a bad couple of days for the BBC, with its admission that several phone-in competitions were faked. The response in the press has been outrage, with headlines such as “They’re bear faced cheats” in The Sun, or The Daily Mail talking about “The shaming of the BBC“. There is no doubt that this is a serious issue and BBC producers were wrong to have deceived audiences. But
An analysis of what people are downloading using the file-sharing Bittorrent system offers an insight into how the way people are watching TV is changing. A site called SumoTorrent gathered the information from more than 400.000 .torrent files on the net. It found that most people use Bittorrent to download the latest episode of their favourite TV show. Nearly 50% of people using Bittorrent go online to download a TV
One of the main TV channels in the UK is ITV, the main commercial competitor to the BBC. Or rather, maybe we should say it was one of the main stations in the days when there were only four channels on the box. Now it is just one of the many choices and its audiences are declining. So like so much MSM, ITV is going back to school to learn
Big news at one of the main US TV networks, with NBC announcing it is cutting hundreds of jobs and streamline its news operations as part of its plans to overhaul the company. According to Jeff Zucker, chief executive of NBC Universal’s television group, this is does not reflect less of a commitment to news: “The growth in news is in different places – it’s online, it’s on wireless.” As