Year: 2013

By: Jimmy Schaeffler Dec 05 2013 – 03:03pm In several unique ways, it’s a great time to be a content producer/distributor, especially if you are a studio stakeholder or someone connected with the advertising industry. Plus, with more and more remarkable movies, TV shows, and even online streaming content coming from those content makers to users’ video monitors, smart phones,… Read More

That means I watch a lot of graphics whirl across the screens of the world, and especially those of the news I watch most. My news viewing would be a combination of a lot of what one might call “informational variety”i.e., …. Fox, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Comedy Central, and my local Monterey-Salinas, CA stations, KION and KSBW. Yet, in the… Read More

By: Jimmy Schaeffler Nov 05 2013 – 09:07am WISP Lite, WISP Classic, and WISP Turbo are three nicknames I recommended to identify the types of video service packages North America’s Wireless Internet Service Providers should be offering their roughly 3 million mostly rural subscribers, as part of a keynote speech I was asked to deliver October 16, in Las Vegas.… Read More

Among the 18 official U.S. cable industry trade groups , the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing trade group, AKA CTAM, is one I hold most dear to my heart. That is, in part, because, for a long time now, it has had a great person at the helm, one who makes people around her want to do business with… Read More

At its core, San Mateo, Calif.-headquartered Google, and its Google TV service, resemble those of almost every other new media/online/Over-The-Top/broadband/streaming video provider I have written about during the past seven months (see, Mixed Signals for a listing of stories about Microsoft, Apple, Vudu, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, and Intel). That is, the folks at Google are trying a lot of moves… Read More