Just read this about Australian TV and newspapers in the New Zealand Herald On Sunday… “This week the Seven Network confirmed it had cut the value of its 47 per cent holding in the Seven Media Group from A$793.9 million to zero, following Packer’s similar valuation of PBL Media when he dumped his residual holding…
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks pixel deep in reports on TV- subscription, pay, SMS, IP, download,upload and what not. From Paul Budde to Reeltime to EroticStarSearch to What’s New. Off to the Astra conference and the So You Want your own TV Station panel. Listening to Kim Williams on Foxtel, John Porter on…
Current.tv has launched in the UK this week, picking up another 25 million subs. They are on Sky (Ch 229) and Virgin (Ch 155). For those who don’t know, Current.tv has 28 million subscribers in The States, runs on Comcast, DirecTV and TimeWarner networks, is user generated content driven – including the ads – and…
I’m off to Astra in a couple of weeks – March 15 actually – I really want to ask about the Current.TV model and if it’s applicable in Australia: The ASTRA Conference 2007 is the leading conference to draw together subscription television in Australia. The ASTRA Conference 2007 provides the opportunity to showcase subscription television…
Strange how some things change and others stay the same. We now have an old guard in Internet and they resist change fairly strongly. Particularly if they didn’t see it coming. I fell over this article in SMH today – Teenage habits – and was, well, gobsmacked at Paul McIntyre’s predictions for World Internet Project’s…
Fer Shame. Mr Murdoch from Newscorp talking to, I think, his son-in-law’s press paper thingie, is giving up already on his mastheads. Pffft.Rupert Murdoch has forecast a gloomy future for newspapers with the growth of the internet, saying he doesn’t know “anybody under the age of 30 who has ever looked at a classified ad”.The…
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