Todd Mundt

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I moderated a really fascinating session today - “Building Audience Beyond Broadcast” - which, despite the title, looked at the new broadcast technology, HD Radio, as well as the strategic assessments that stations are making as they consider an array of non-broadcast channels to reach their audiences.
Robin Gehl of Cincinnati Public Radio, talked about the [...]

Dave Winer tosses around the idea of a podcast player - one that not only gets podcasts, but creates and uploads them. His list of requirements:
1. Self-contained, untethered synchronization, much the same way a Blackberry gets email. 
2. Read-write, two-way, should be able to record and connect with a publishing system for automatic upload and feed [...]

At the NCTA show, TW President and COO Jeff Bewkes, told programmers they should offer their entire schedules on VOD - free. Bewkes todl those attending that they’d make their money from advertising revenues; and he pithced it as a way to preverve cable from newer platform competitors. Bewkes told the networks they should do [...]

via Dennis Haarsager, over at Technology 360, a piece of wisdom that should be a wake up call to all of us in public media - from Yahoo’s Tom Coates:
“… I think we’re approaching a world in which a near-live media distribution environment will be a major partner to broadcast TV within five-ten years. This [...]