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The Continuing End of TV
I’m sitting in a medical office (routine stuff) where a number of people, myself included, are doing our best to ignore the flat TV screen on the wall. Most of us are reading magazines, using our phones or tablets, or … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasting, Business, Future, infrastructure, problems, radio
Tagged Boomer Esiason, Cable television, Gerry Callahan, John Dennis, NBC, New England Sports Network, television, WEEI
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Thinking outside the Internet box
A couple days ago I responded to a posting on an email list. What I wrote struck a few chords, so I thought I’d repeat it here, with just a few edits, and then add a few additional thoughts as … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Future, Gear, Ideas, infrastructure, Past, Politics, problems, Technology
Tagged ABC, AM, Brett Glass, Broadband Politics, CBS, cloud, Erik Cecil, FM, fox, Hammarlund, Hammarlund HQ-129x, information service, internet, NBC, New Jersey, new york, Nicholas Carr, ota, PBS, projectvrm, regulatory capture, Richard Bennett, Sporadic E, telecommunication service, television, towers, uhf, utility, vhf, VRM, Wealth of Networks, Yochai Benkler
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Adventures in Value Subtraction
One of the reasons I liked Dish Network (to the extent anybody can like a purely commercial entertainment utility) was that their satellite receivers included an over-the-air tuner. It nicely folded your over-the-air (OTA) stations in with others in the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Gear, Past, problems, VRM
Tagged Dish Network, Sony, television, tv, ViP 622, ViP 722
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