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A Little Bit of Hidden Newsy #TIS17
At a superficial view, it’s easy to confuse which assets are part of Discovery Communication’s acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive (SNI), given that SNI’s former parent, E.W. Scripps, also has some valuable online and cable television network properties. E.W. Scripps spun out SNI and its associated television channel in 2008, but has continued to build an online…
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A Conference Activity That Helps Bring Good News to those in Need #TIS17
A wise Church youth director once suggested that one can learn a great deal by helping those who live in faraway locales. In a sense, working in a shelter or a food bank in another town or state provides an opportunity to see things in a different light and, to some extent, benchmark and bring…
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UHD Isn’t Just More Pixels, It’s Better Pixels
Ultra HD is more than just 4 times the resolution, as it also offers the opportunity for greater color depth, so explains Steven Corda, Vice President of Business Development North America for SES. Providing a bit of a pre-NAB Show tutorial at the 2017 ACA Summit, Corda explains in the above video some of the…
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The 500k Combination of Consumers, Channels and Choice
With a myriad of new alternative cable solutions from established entities (e.g. Hulu, AT&T, Sony, etc.) how will traditional video service providers stand out from this onslaught of competition? This is a question that Jonathan Hurd and his team at Altman and Vilandrie sought to answer late last year and in doing so, looked at things such…
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The Season of Hope #TIS16
It was exactly five months before Christmas, but the message of hope and redemption, that Tracy and Darryl Strawberry (yes, the baseball great) gave at the Christians in Communications (CIC) breakfast at The 2016 Independent Show, is fitting for this time of the year. In the above interview filmed at TIS 2016, Jim Dickson and Joe Sloan…
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And the Winner of this Year’s Elections….
Whatever the outcome of the local and national elections, the media business will be a winner, according to David Solomon, Chief Revenue Officer for Viamedia. Viamedia manages advertising for over 60 cable and IPTV operators nationwide. Solomon suggests that the ability to target on a geographic basis will make this a winning year for cable and…