Category: media

“Spanish-language broadcaster Univision made history last week, beating all other broadcast networks in the coveted 18-49 demographic for the first time ever. Univision also managed to beat both Fox and the CW in viewers for the week.”

“The key to the next generation of TV is likely to be search, and the biggest drag on search is going to be text entry. If Google TV is really going to be the “one screen to rule them all,” it has to solve that problem.”

At the American Computer Museum, “you’ll still find all manner of models, machinery and accessories that most of us long ago, or only yesterday, relegated to the junk heap” – from the Gutenberg press through telegraphs and enormous telephone switchboards to the Apple I, vintage 1976.

RightNetwork, whose first series, “Running,” follows the fortunes of some Tea Party-backed candidates for public office, is also trying a new model to establish itself.

Explains his partner: “He just told me, ‘It’s not the Oscars.’ At first he thought it was going to be part of the same ceremony, then he realised it was a separate thing in November. … Jean-Luc won’t go to America, he’s getting old for that kind of thing. Would you go all that way just for a bit of metal?” (He’s 79.)

“Cinema about ordinary people has become an art-house niche for an elite audience while popular engagement with cinema is summed up by the bored young woman he meets in Havana whose interest in film extends to Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic.”

“I do know of so many cases where executives would say ‘What we want is something new, something different, something extraordinary! And they’re brought something new, different and extraordinary and immediately the executive gets cold feet, falls back on something else and we end up with something incredibly bland.”

“After a decade of mishaps, in which sets were washed away by flash floods, a leading man was rushed to hospital, and the engines of swooping fighter jets ruined sound recordings, it finally looked as if Gilliam would realise his dream, having signed up Robert Duvall to play the chivalry-obsessed Quixote.” But now the funders have pulled out.

Founders Sam Hoffman and Eric Spiegelman created this website after a video of Hoffman’s mother telling a joke about broccoli went viral. “Just as folklorist Alan Lomax worked to preserve and collect folk music, Hoffman and Spiegelman have worked to preserve and collect Jewish humor.”

“As industry heavyweights, such as Time Warner and Disney, push ever more-expensive packages of their cable programming, the smaller networks will lose leverage to negotiate their own deals. As a result, they could see less favorable deals or risk being dropped altogether.”