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Sun Valley: Jane Goodall and the primary primates
It’s day three of the Sun Valley media conference and the event has started to feel like a Jane Goodall documentary, in which we’re Jane and the moguls are the apes who have become comfortable letting...
View ArticleNBC Universal creates new sports marketing agency
It’s no secret that sports has been the brightest star of broadcast television lately. It pulls big audiences, and those viewers watch live — a combination that advertisers drool over. So NBC...
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When it comes to NFL, TV executives put on brave face
NFL players association members arrive for negotiations with NFL in Washington Mar 11 2011 Shrewd? Prescient? Delusional? Tough to know, but top TV executives this week all seemed relatively confident...
View ArticleWho wants a college sports TV network? Who doesn’t?
Click here to view the embedded video.Sure it was obvious, but I applaud the decision by whoever organized the IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum to pipe The Cars “Shake It Up” through the...
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Howard Stern’s TV judging stint a boost for Sirius XM
Howard Stern is going to be a judge on the NBC show “America’s Got Talent,” this summer and Wall Street is already betting this is going to benefit the shock jock’s satellite radio home, SiriusXM...
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In Super Bowl streaming deal, Verizon scores again
What a delightful week this is turning out to be for Verizon. First, archrival AT&T decides it will ditch its $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA (as if they weren’t grinning madly in the halls of...
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ESPN’s John Skipper doesn’t see any benefits in new TV models – yet.
ESPN chief John Skipper is happy to talk to any of the so-called new over-the-top Web video players surfing around the fringes of the cable TV business. But he doesn’t see any major deals happening...
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Archery is the ‘new’ curling? I don’t think so, NBC
Alan Wurtzel, NBC’s president of research and development, said on the network’s Olympics conference call Thursday that archery is the new curling. As a former “vice skip”* on my high school’s curling...
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Data shows thousands circumvented NBC Olympics coverage
At least one company benefited from Olympics fans in the United States who tried to circumvent NBC’s television coverage during the London Games. AnchorFree, the Mountain View, Calif.-based startup...
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British TV app Zeebox comes stateside
Are your Facebook friends or Twitter followers tired of your incessant posts about The Voice or Game of Thrones? Enter Zeebox, a new app available in the U.S. catered to the most avid TV watchers to...
View ArticleBoxee CEO on the future of TV: Aereo, Cloud DVRs, Netflix and Apple TV, oh my.
Boxee CEO Avner Ronen recently sat down with me for a wide-ranging video interview on the state of television, and its future. His company just released a $99 device that uses the Amazon cloud to give...
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