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RFD-TV: How an Ex-Farmer Built a $25 Million Media Empire for Rural America

Ryan Blitstein — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Patrick Gottsch peers out the window of his rented private jet as it surges above the tree line. "That's our audience," says the squat, worn-faced founder of rural cable channel RFD-TV, pointing down toward the farms jigsawed together along the Iowa-Nebraska border. What people don't understand, he later adds, is that every one of those squares will generate roughly $300,000 this year.

HEAT WAVE: Castle’s Best-Selling Strategy

Barb Mackintosh — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:04:09 -0500

We’re witnessing a creative peak in the TV industry. And I don’t mean just great plotlines and characters. In the days of TIVO and Hulu, TV executives have had to get creative to make up for lost advertising dollars.

Google and TiVo Make a Deal: Your Commercials Are Going to Get a Lot More Personal

Kit Eaton — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:42:59 -0500

TiVo, everyone's favorite DVR maker, has just signed an agreement with Google to hand over tons of data on its users habits for analysis. The upshot: Advertisements are going to be even more targeted and personal. It's how Internet TV ads will work in the future.

CE Association Ruffles Feathers at the Mere Hint of Limiting Flat-Screen Sales

Kit Eaton — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:02:21 -0500

Ed. Note: This piece has been edited significantly from its original version to reflect factual inaccuracies related to exactly what the California Energy Commission has proposed. We regret the earlier error.

How Long Can Free Broadcast TV Last? Not Long, Perhaps

Kit Eaton — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:59:15 -0500

Though Time Warner's CEO Jeff Bewkes has his own agenda to push regarding the future of TV, speaking to the Daily Beast recently he mentioned the future of free-to-air TV. He thinks it hasn't got one, and he may have a point.

Rumor: Apple Wants to Route Your TV Shows Through iTunes

Kit Eaton — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:26:30 -0500

Apple rumors swirl practically every week, but there's rarely one that's as potentially game-changing as this one: According to insiders, the company's aiming to cut out the cable TV middle man, and serve up network TV to as many as 65 million users via iTunes.

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Seven Shows That Found a Second Life on Hulu

Dan Macsai — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:52:26 -0400

UK's Channel 4 Scores First Full-Length Programs on YouTube, Bad News for Hulu

Kit Eaton — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:11:47 -0400

You might not be as familiar with it as the 60 million people living in the U.K. are, but local terrestrial TV station Channel 4 has just scored a World's first: It's the first broadcaster to get its full-length program archive shown via YouTube.

Frog Designs' New iPhone App Lets You Talk TV

Chris Dannen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:19:30 -0400

Frog Design is releasing an iPod app that allows you to talk to your friends about shows as you watch them.

Called TVChatter, the app allows you to follow a Twitter stream about your favorite show and respond to other viewers with @replies. It also presents you with a list of shows that are most popular, judging by Twitter activity.

Online Ads Turn a Corner: More Spent on Internet Ads Than TV in U.K.

Kit Eaton — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:55:38 -0400

A new report by the Internet Advertising Bureau and Pricewaterhouse Coopers has revealed something amazing: The U.K. has become the first major economy to see advertisers spending more on internet adverts than traditional TV ones.

Panasonic Dips a Giant Toe Into 3-D TV With a 50-Inch Plasma

Kit Eaton — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:24:18 -0400

With lots of industry players working on 3-D TV, and the supporting HDMI 1.4 cable format on its way, 3-D television is guaranteed to be pushed on consumers during this holiday shopping season and the next. Panasonic certainly plans to promote the technology, and has just unwrapped a prototype 50-inch plasma unit that displays 3-D.

Will HDTVs Be Intel Atom-Powered?

Kit Eaton — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:40:57 -0400

We're all familiar with Intel's tiny, low-power Atom CPU--without it the netbook revolution probably wouldn't have happened. But Intel has just pulled the covers off its next-gen Atom system on a chip, and it has a new target device: Your TV.

iMac Rumors: Blu-Ray and Core i7 Chips?

Kit Eaton — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:23:03 -0400

Steve Jobs famously poo-poohed the idea of Apple adopting Blu-ray, describing the technology as a "bag of hurt." But with hot rumors of an imminent iMac redesign, the Blu-ray drive issue is again in the spotlight. Is Apple about to give in?

Does Hulu's Advertising Intimidate Women?

Chris Dannen — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:22:34 -0400

Comcast is betting it does. The cable giant's online TV portal, Fancast, believes that Hulu's ads alienate and confuse women, and they're planning to use their massive new ad push to tap that demographic for themselves. But is the premise flawed?

Blowing Up Cadillacs to Sell Cars

Chris Dannen — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:31:01 -0400

This fall, Cadillac will be running a new TV spot entitled "Re-ignition." The commercial is meant to show consumers that Cadillac and its woebegone parent are ready to come back into the luxury fray. Instead, it does something entirely different: it frightens us.

The ad, backed by an audio track that sounds like a NASA launch sequence, smacks more of an Iraq war newsreel on CNN than it does a "top-secret" automotive testing scene.

Will Anyone Use Interactive TV Ads?

Chris Dannen — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:07:11 -0400

Cablevision plans to begin showing "interactive" advertisements to its cable customers next month, according to the Wall Street Journal, and other cable companies are following suit. The push is to make TV a "lean-forward" medium, says one Comcast exec. But do we really want to lean forward in front of our TVs?

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Kit Eaton — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:45:48 -0400

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Gregory Patterson — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:08:50 -0400

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When Is Live Television Coming to Game Consoles in the U.S.?

Kevin Ohannessian — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:31:03 -0400

Microsoft and Sony both have plans to provide live television on their respective gaming machines this fall in Europe. Sony announced at GamesCom on Tuesday that it will bring BBC to U.K gamers, and other channels to various European countries. Similarly, Microsoft has announced it will be featuring Sky on Xbox Live in the U.K and Canal Plus in France. What are the plans for these services? And when are they coming to the U.S.?

AMC’s 'Mad Men' Season 3 Premiere

Clay Dillow — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0400

No show has so perfectly blended postwar Americana, raw sexual tension, office politics, and the five martini lunch quite like AMC’s Mad Men. Season 2 left viewers with enough questions to fill the trunk of a ’62 Cadillac, and while Season 3 doesn’t promise easy answers, it does promise more taboo trysts, more smoke-filled rooms, more lipstick-smudged deceit, and most importantly, more of the mysterious Don Draper, portrayed impeccably by Jon Hamm.

Finding Love From Your Couch, or Failing to

Chris Dannen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:26:04 -0400

A British tech blog is reporting that Match.com is making its services available on select TVs starting this month through a special DVR being sold by U.K. telecom provider BT (seen below). Which begs the question: why would you want to use Match.com on your TV?

What's Wrong With This Palm Ad?

Chris Dannen — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:46:42 -0400

Below, you'll find the latest television ad for the Palm Pre. It's simply shot, backed by soothing music, and consistent with Palm's other Beijing-opening-ceremony style ad from June. It's also bizarrely, pervasively creepy. What's going on here?

Netflix to Stream Movies Directly to Sony's Bravia TVs

Clay Dillow — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:50:48 -0400

The gap between the Web and television just narrowed a bit further. Starting this fall, Netflix users will be able to stream movies directly from the site to Sony Bravia Internet-enabled televisions. bringing Netflix's 12,000-title collection of on-demand cinema within a software update of big-screen viewing.