GurBlogs - tv

Taking It On Demand

admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:58:04 -0800

Today's younger viewers in the 18-to-39 age group regularly watch TV on an on-demand basis, with some watching TV programming only on their computers. Within seven years, that generation probably will consume 80 percent of its TV on-demand via broadband, DVR, iPod or VOD, said Kaan Yigit, analyst with Solutions Research Group in Canada, which issued the report "Digital Life America" to its TV network and studio clients last week. The report is designed to help them understand how TV viewing behaviors are changing.

"Students do not relate to newspapers at all--any more than they would to vinyl records"

admin — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:09:19 -0800

via CNET News

More U.S. teachers are using national and international online-news sites in the classroom, leaving behind newspapers that fail to grasp the Internet's importance in trying to reach students, a study found.

Fifty-seven percent of teachers use Internet-based news in the classroom with some frequency, said the study, which was based on a survey of 1,262 teachers in grades 5 through 12 in the fall of 2006 and released on Monday by the Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of Journalism Education.

That compares with 31 percent for national television news and 28 percent for daily papers. Local television news, at 13 percent, was at the bottom of the list, the study found.

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Across the Internets

admin — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:54:44 -0800

Linked Intelligence, Me Likey Your Boilerplate

Lost Remote, Bill Gates Say: TV Not Otay

Micropersuasion, You Shall (NOT?) Delete Thy Comment

The Long Tail, Record Label Hissy Fits

Across the Internets

admin — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:01:21 -0800

Lost Remote, Late Night News Blows & So Will The Cost of Yappin' On Your New iPhone

Communications Overtones, Living Your 2nd Life

Buzz Machine, On Defending Thyself

Why Not Just Make It The Rule?

admin — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:21:47 -0800

via The New York Times

Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of “Saturday Night Live,” cautioned in an interview that the strategy of treating Internet users to the equivalent of an authorized “director’s cut” of his late-night show “will be the exception” going forward.

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Can't say I'm following the logic of actively depriving an eager, ready-made audience on the new network!?!?!?? What am I missing?