Todd Mundt

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It’s been so long ago that I can’t even remember what US channel I first saw him on… was it an earlier incarnation of TLC?
James Barber was a quirky presence on television, in that era before Food Network remade the television cooking show into the slickly produced 22-minute food orgasm, for good and ill. He [...]

The 13th annual DTV Symposium is under way in Des Moines. Iowa Public Television runs the symposium, which has acquired a reputation for bringing together some of the best technological thinking in public and commercial media.
I wasn’t able to get out of Minneapolis (PRPD) until this morning, but I got in just in time for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Via Technology 360:
The BBC’s director of new media and technology has outlined the results of the 5,000 user test of the BBC integrated media player, which delivered a selection of BBC programs to users over a peer-to-peer network.
A couple of notable findings from the test: first, users lost access to many of the programs they [...]

via Lost Remote:
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports on a recent local panel discussion about TV news, in which a member of the audience challenged the use of terms like “breaking” and “severe.” Check out these defensive responses:
WPXI news director Corrie Harding said the breaking news bug afflicts TV stations because research shows that’s what people want [...]