In the Details
An Industry Wish List
by Neal Weinstock 12.23.2008
REWRITE | There Ought To Be a New Law More...
Pockets of Joy
by Neal Weinstock 7.11.2008
Columnist Neal Weinstock takes an unusually optimistic view of broadcasting and the media landscape... More...
Put Paid to Digital
by Neal Weinstock 4.11.2008
Analyst Neal Weinstock parses station financing in an economic downturn. More...
The Lesson of Philo Farnsworth - by Neal Weinstock
by Neal Weinstock 1.16.2008
Farnsworth's real-life story was also a tale of the triumph of West Coast venture capital. Although I am told that Sorkin's play has Farnsworth backed by William Crocker of Crocker Bank, actually it was a bank executive who came More...
Just Get The Engineers To Build It
by Neal Weinstock 4.5.2007
This column will be about TV, not music, but bear with me for a moment...
By now, most of you know that Steve Jobs came out with a public letter to the record labels in February, explaining that DRM has failed, that his More...
Now Internet TV Truly Begins
by Neal Weinstock 2.15.2007
I admit to being surprised at last month's Consumer Electronics Show. All the pre-show signs indicated this would be yet another year dominated by the same old new stuff: home AV networking that never, for most buyers, goes More...
A Forrester Went Apple-Picking And Found A Vista
by Neal Weinstock 1.11.2007
We got some intriguing news out of Forrester Research just before Christmas. They analyzed charge slips over a two-year period (I thought that was a bear rifling through my garbage, turns out it was Josh Bernoff) and concluded More...
M&A Happens
by Neal Weinstock 12.19.2006
Well now we know where the investment dollars are going in broadcasting. Clear Channel, and probably Tribune (and possibly one or more of the other broadcasting behemoths by the time you read this) are setting the pace. More...
ESPN Mobile Stops Moving: Any Portents Here?
by Neal Weinstock 11.10.2006
The Walt Disney Co. cut the life-support cord on Mobile ESPN at the end of September, with the service scheduled to wind down by year’s end. This makes Mobile ESPN the first of the “mobile virtual network operators” (MVNOs, as More...
Fast-Forward Dinosaurs
by Neal Weinstock 10.13.2006
Much has been written in this space bemoaning the failures of traditional broadcasters to try to grow their businesses into New Media opportunities. But there is a flip side to this failure: Well-justified fear.
As I write, I More...
Moo
by Neal Weinstock 9.14.2006
How does it feel, getting milked? A friend who grew up in his father's dairy business in Maryland showed me just how contented those cows are with the process. Moo!
And how do you like being a cash cow? Well, it may be comfy, More...
The Net is Not Neutral, And We Like It Like That
by Neal Weinstock 8.24.2006
Have you been following the political battle on “net neutrality?” This is the legislative battle in Congress over whether or not to force broadband Internet service providers to provide equal quality for any service, no matter More...
Digital Signage Fails Over And Over Again Until...
by Neal Weinstock 7.20.2006
This is Can TV Save Itself By Becoming An Out-Of-Home Medium? Part II, The Prequel and Maybe The Sequel.
(Kind of like how in The Godfather, Part II, Francis Coppola so artfully went back and then forward in time. Except this More...
The Technology’s Really Cool. And It’s Where The Industry’s Going
by Neal Weinstock 6.29.2006
Usually we resort to big metaphors when we try to describe a National Association of Broadcasters convention. But Mrs. Glaser drilled into me the meaning of “synecdoche” when I was in her ninth grade English class, and the NAB More...