Remember the game show 1 vs. 100, where one contestant played against 100 people for a cash jackpot? As the lone contestant built up his/her end of the jackpot (through incredibly inane multiple-choice questions) host Bob Saget (later Carrie Ann Inaba) would call for a decision to play on with this question: Do you want the ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: Time to Cut the Space Waste
on 3.5.12
There's a lot of people out there out to create the next generation of television, a fair chunk of them through new TV networks. Witness the more than 100 channel proposals Comcast worked through to come up with four, all independently-owned and operated by people or organizations of color, going on their cable systems ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: Comcast Brings Diversity On
on 2.27.12
The journey to the outcome went longer than anticipated, but at last, Comcast has chosen the first players in its new assortment of independently-owned channels cleared among cable affiliates nationwide. The lucky quartet selected for national carriage, in order of their launch dates: BabyFirst Americas, a Latino-centric ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: Watch On Your Best Behavior
on 2.19.12
At some point growing up, many kids heard this advice from one or both parents: "Now ____, be on your best behavior." Quite soon, we TV viewers may have to heed that advice, when dealing with our relationship to TV sets. There's a huge disrupt ahead for that relationship, and thank Ralph Santana for the early ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: Spoon Up Anthology
on 1.23.12
Two genres ruled the primetime roost on broadcast networks as I grew up. One was the Western, the other was anthology series. Both dominated lineups throughout the 1950s and into the late 1960s. Then primetime largely went the way of police, lawyer and medical series, burying Westerns and anthologies with them. Now that ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: First Observations from the 2012 Passing Parade
on 1.18.12
I know it's early to make declarations over what 2012 will be remembered for, but you get the impression that we may, yes may, look back at the week of International CES in Las Vegas as the beginning of the "controllable" TV era. By controllable, manipulating your TV set and what you watch off it with your hands, fingers, ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: The Great Takeaways of 2011
on 12.27.11
Sorry, but I'm not into best of/worst of TV lists as many of my fellow journalists are, as one year completes and next year draws close. Trends and mileposts that develop over a year, impacting times ahead, are more my cup of tea. Early on, I noted in different places that what transpires in 2011 would set up the rest of ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: TV Times Ahead, Netflix-wise
on 12.12.11
A few thousand people spend their early December in part inside the Grand Hyatt hotel, watching UBS' annual global media conference. They've been doing it for 39 years, catching presidents, chief executive or financial officers from major media ventures discourse over accomplishments in one year and projections for the ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: Time to Break 3D’s Chicken and Egg
on 12.5.11
Looking for the current example of chicken-and-egg communications dilemma? Look no further than 3D television. With less than a month remaining in 2011, 3D's on track to add between 3.5 and 4 million households to the community with such a set to watch, according to Consumer Electronics Association stats. Set prices are ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: A Glance at the New Tube
on 11.28.11
In past television lives, Larry Aidem ran Sundance Channel and Michael Hirschorn led the programming charge at VH1. Both accomplished plenty in their respective tenures. Now they're connected, along with dozens of enterprises big and small, headed by big names and no-names in media, out to create the new generation of TV ...
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