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My new show launches Monday on Iowa Public Television. In the meantime, the new web site has launched, and it looks pretty good, with lots of options for watching video, and a (very small, for now) social media component.
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I had a great chat today with my favorite manager in public television… and while our chats tend to cover acres and acres of territory, we spent most of our time today on the subject of HD and TV’s digital bandwidth.
I’ve already offered up my snarky remarks on the 24 hour PBS HD feed - [...]

Sometimes I write posts here that are less public statements than “waves of thinking” about a particular issue that I’m pushing around in my head. This is one of them. In other words, this is mainly about gathering the wisdom of others and ruminating. Add your own thoughts if you’d like.
Dennis Haarsager consistently fires on [...]

Stephen Hill challenges us to re-think the business model - develop a competitive value proposition and a new financial platform, to address our vulnerable revenue streams.

Todd, Mark:I couldn’t agree more with the spirit, the tone and the specifics of of what you have written here and I have been convinced of the absolutenecessity of offering [...]

Moderator: Patricia Aufderheide. Participants: Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation; Diane Mermigas, The Hollywood Reporter; Dan Nova, Highland Capital Partners.
Because of a minor issue (let’s call it Autosave), these notes are adapted from Jessica Duda’s excellent summary on the Beyond Broadcast blog. I summarize them here not to pass them off as my own but to have [...]

Christopher Lydon, moderator; Bill Buzenberg, Minnesota Public Radio; Terry Heaton, Donata Communications; David Liroff, WGBH
Bill Buzenberg spoke about Public Insight Journalism: “for every story, someone in our audience knows more than we do”, their use of “idea generators” like The Future of Small Towns. Those ideas become reports and series on-air, become comments online, become [...]

Keynote: Reinventing the Gatekeeper
James Boyle, Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School
We’re bad at predicting the future of technology; we have to understand that and the policy implications of it.
The inability to see the potential of commons-based media: we are blind to the opportunities this kind of media offers at every [...]

I’ve spent some time digging around Gather.com and the Public Interactive Public Action beta and I’ve come away with somewhat more positive feelings about both.
I think the social networking aspect of these and other sites has less potential for public broadcasters - at least for now, while our main demographic is still late-GenX/Baby Boom. This [...]

BBC is spending 106 million pounds on an overhaul of its web operations - from Paid Content.
The money quote comes from Ashley Highfield, BBC’s director of new media and technology:
“We want to allow Internet users to go into their own BBC space containing all the content they’re interested in, all the TV shows they like [...]

One of the reasons I started this weblog after years of wondering whether I should bother with one or not was because I hoped that I could write something from time to time that people would read and find interesting. The second reason why I started this weblog was that I want it to be [...]

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 [...]

od Maffin has posted the full text of a speech that CBC President Robert Rabinovitch delivered in Toronto today.The speech gives a good sense of where the CBC is right now, but I think it’s particularly frank about the issues facing CBC English Television.
CBC’s English Television receives a little more than a quarter of the [...]