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The Hollywood union strike between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is turning into an all-out war. Last week, the WGA made more threatening demands, but the Alliance refused to budge, choosing instead to reply with rhetoric aimed at turning rank-and-file writers against the union’s “power-hungry” leaders. [...]

If you haven’t noticed it yet, the TV industry is in a bit of trouble.Between the writers’ strike, Arbitron’s delay of the TV “piracy” — it’s tough to see a happy future for the traditional television business.
Like any giant industry in its death throes, the TV folks aren’t taking the end of their business model [...]

Little has been written about yesterdays announcement that Yahoo would be selling display and video ads for Comcast’s websites, in particular, Comcast.net.
What’s so special about this deal beyond the shear size of Comcast and the inventory it makes available to Yahoo to sell ? its the network stupid.
The one thing that Google doesn’t have is [...]

Comcast this week announced the creation of Comcast Interactive Media, a new division to develop and grow the company’s internet businesses, including the Comcast.net portal (via ReveNews). It will leverage Comcast’s advanced broadband network and technology, existing service offerings, extensive content relationships, and its customer and supplier relationships to build innovative new online services.
Comcast veteran [...]

Slingbox has emerged in the entertainment market by allowing users to watch their television service wherever as long as they had a broadband connection.
Now enters Sony’s LocationFree TV into the ring where a recent PSP firmware update allows it to act as a receiver for the LocationFree device. So can Sony’s LocationFree TV knock [...]

Kudos to AOL for the free TV site, chock full of classic TV episodes that can be streamed (no commercials) or downloaded for a limited time, free. This is one of the real fun sites to visit and a very pleasant diversion. A must to bookmark.
 http://geoff-caplan.com, email geoff@mail.org

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