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Tuning In on Mobile Digital TV January 26, 2010 
TV viewers who can't bear to be without access to news and programs from their local television stations will this year have new ways to be connected wherever they go. New devices that will carry local TV broadcasts will hit the market later this year. Some of these new mobile digital television devices debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month.
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FCC Gives Sports Fans a Win January 21, 2010 
Cable TV companies will no longer be able to use a federal loophole to withhold sports networks and other popular programming that they own from satellite providers and other rivals. The Federal Communications Commission voted 4-to-1 on Wednesday to close the so-called "terrestrial loophole" in a 1992 federal cable law.
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Sitting Kills, Finds TV-Habits Study January 14, 2010 
Every hour of TV viewing increases your chances of an early death, according to a new study by Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Australia. Every one-hour program you sit through raises your odds for dying from heart attack or stroke by 18 percent, from cancer by 9 percent, and from other health problems by 11 percent, the researchers found.
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Does 'Going Hollywood' Mean Going North? January 11, 2010 
In The Rise of the Creative Class, author Richard Florida describes his theories on how creative communities grow around two groups of people: 1) artists, media workers, and other classically bohemian sorts; and 2) university professors, service providers, and other highly educated professionals.
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3-D TV Gets Ready for Prime Time January 09, 2010 
This is supposedly the year 3-D television becomes the hot new thing: Updated sets and disc players are coming out, and 3-D cable channels are in the works. However, it's not clear the idea will reach out and grab mainstream viewers. Besides having to spring for expensive new TVs, people would have to put on awkward special glasses to give the picture the illusion of depth.
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All 3-D TV Net in the Works January 06, 2010 
Sometime within the next two years, you'll feel like ducking for cover the next time the Discovery Channel's "Mythbusters" team blows something to smithereens. Yet you'll be in the comfort of your living room, wearing oversize glasses while watching a new 3-D television channel whose very existence was first announced Tuesday.
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The Death Throes of Free TV January 02, 2010 
For more than 60 years, TV stations have broadcast news, sports and entertainment for free, and made their money by showing commercials. That might not work much longer. The business model is unraveling at ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, as well as the local stations that carry the networks' programming. Cable TV and the Web have fractured the audience for free TV and siphoned its ad dollars.
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Apple's iConcierge: Do You Feel the Ground Shaking? December 14, 2009 
The proposed $30 billion Comcast-NBC Universal deal has entered the labyrinthine process of winning Congressional approval from the antitrust gurus and the Federal Communications Commission. Small cable operators, which apparently still exist, fear that they will be driven out of business by the sprawling new company.
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Boxee Swings for Spot in Set-Top Box Ring December 09, 2009 
The Boxee video-on-demand software maker aims to change the way consumers get free movie and TV entertainment from the Internet with its first hardware venture, called "Boxee Box." The open source software company debuted its new hardware device at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Monday.
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Comcast Suits Up for a Brand New Game December 03, 2009 
It's official: Comcast has engineered what appears to be the biggest media joint venture of the year -- a multibillion-dollar merger that will combine General Electric's NBC Universal with Comcast's own cable networks. Once complete, Comcast will take majority ownership of NBC, ending GE's 20 year control of the network.
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Google, TiVo Share Couch to Watch User Habits November 25, 2009 
You may think it's annoying when you see the same commercial repeated during a 2:30 ad break in prime time, but have no fear -- there is a method to an advertiser's madness. They simply want to make sure you are exposed to that product's branding/logo even as you're fast-forwarding past it on a digital video recorder.
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Roku Channel Store Hangs Out Shingle November 23, 2009 
Roku is making additional types of content available via its set-top players with the introduction of the Roku Channel Store. Participants so far include Pandora, Facebook Photos, Revision3, Mediafly, TWiT, blip.tv, Flickr, FrameChannel, Motionbox and MobileTribe. Other providers are developing apps for the Roku Channel Store; as they are ready, they will appear there automatically.
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Clicker Cuts Through Web Video Chaos November 23, 2009 
Let's put this simply: If you want to stream free, professional videos online, Clicker makes finding the video easier than most other solutions I've seen. In fact, it's one of the few online television and video search guides that I've felt compelled to create an account with. Why? Easy. It targets the content I want.
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New Calif. Standard Nixes Energy-Guzzling Flat-Screen TVs November 19, 2009 
California regulators have adopted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions, a move that will eventually ban power-hungry sets from the state's store shelves. Wednesday's action by the California Energy Commission could lead the way in a general reform of standards for an industry increasingly focused on wide-view, flat-screen, high-definition sets.
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NBC's Sale to Cable Co. Signals TV Sea Change November 16, 2009 
Eight decades after pioneering the concept of broadcasting, NBC is on the verge of a startling move that illustrates broadcast television's decline. Cable TV operator Comcast is expected to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal, perhaps as early as this week.
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Clicker Charts the Seas for Online TV Surfers November 12, 2009
Clicker Media on Thursday publicly launched Clicker.com, its programming guide to Internet television. This comes less than a year after the company began building what it describes as the "ultimate programming guide for Internet television." Clicker catalogs the broadcast-quality movies, music videos and Web videos available online on more than 1,200 networks.
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