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Harrisonburg, VA – HELP PUT THE SPOTLIGHT ON RESULTS "Nimble, Adaptable, Entrepreneurial Describes you - AND your Clients. Whether they're a local business or a national presence, Clients need to reach their audiences in a more targeted, compelling and strategic fashion than the traditional mass market commercial. Comcast Spotlight, the leading ad-creation business in the ...
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Broadcasters should stick to program making
Red faces at the BBC as John Linwood, the BBC's chief technology officer, is suspended following the scrapping of their in-house project to develop a file-based production platform. The project had a troubled history, being handed on a plate to Siemens, their technology outsourcing provider. In 2009 the BBC took control of a project going nowhere and brought it back in house. Since then, ...
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BBC Cans Tapeless Production Project at Huge Cost
BBC Director General, Tony Hall, has scrapped the Digital Media Initiative (DMI) project saying it had "wasted a huge amount of license fee payers' money." The write off equates to the annual receiver tax for around 670,000 homes. Hall revealed, "I have serious concern about how we managed this project." The contract to deliver the DMI was originally awarded to Siemens ...
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DMI from beta to bust
approves 81m in funding and greenlights the first phase of the Digital Media Initiative (DMI).Future media and technology director Ashley Highfield describes DMI as "the single most important initiative we are working on. Without DMI, we simply can't deliver many of our planned exciting new on-demand ...
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Multiplatform World Wakshlag Says Industry Creating ‘Frankenmetrics to Measure Usage
New York - Turner Broadcasting System chief research officer Jack Wakshlag said the TV industry is creating a series of complicated, useless "Frankenmetrics" to measure viewer habits for linear television, online video and VOD when three simple questions would give advertisers and content providers the answers they want."There are three things we have to start with - how many, how ...
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Multiplatform World Ops Nets Need More Cooperation to Make TV Everywhere Work
New York -- Cable operators and content providers will have to work together to maximize the viewership and revenue opportunities for TV Everywhere, but the window of opportunity is fast closing due to competition, said executives speaking at the TV in a Multiplatform World conference here Thursday. Executives said the industry needs to develop better partnerships with regard to offering ...
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Multiplatform World Streamlining Second-Screen Experience DrivesUser Engagement
New York -- The second-screen market is in HTML 5 technology, and manufacturers need to "sync" up with this technology to better streamline the user experience. "The market is [in] HTML 5," says Jonathan Ruff, senior director, technology applications, ...
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Multiplatform World Comcasts Strauss Says VOD Poised for More Growth
New York -- Comcast's video-on-demand programming is poised for growth on several levels. Matt Strauss, senior VP of digital and emerging platforms at Comcast Cable, speaking at NewBay Media's "TV in a Multiplatform World" event here Thursday, said the platform's viewership, promotional and monetization aspects are accelerating. Whereas kids, music and movies have ...
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Walden Sees Aereo as Potential Marketplace Disruptor
Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) says Aereo could be a major disruptor in the marketplace -- as could Dish's Hopper -- and suggests he understands why Fox would warn that such disruption could move programming off the broadcast model. Walden, chair of the House Communications Subcommittee, was being interviewed for C-SPAN's Communicators series. Walden called both Aereo and Hopper disruptions ...
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Comcasts David Cohen U.S. Broadband Is World Class
Comcast executive VP David Cohen stood up tall for U.S. broadband Thursday, saying Americans "are getting world-class broadband from competing companies, and it's getting better every day." He ascribed to parochial agendas the "running down" of U.S. broadband build-outs by some critics and members of the press who he said use "selective statistics" to back ...
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