Cablevision Sends Viewers to the Web on Oscar Night

UPDATED: Disney and ABC have apparently reached an agreement “in principle.” Access to ABC was restored on the Cablevision network at approximately 8:45 PM EST approximately 30 minutes into the Oscars broadcast.

The months long public battle between ABC and Cablevision over retransmission rights fees came to a head today when ABC pulled the plug [...]

Community Gets Renewed; Announcement Goes Viral

NBC’s Community will be back for another season and Executive Producer Dan Harmon took the opportunity to capture his announcement to the cast and upload it to yfrog. It’s since been picked up by Brian Stelter in The Times Media Decoder column and the news is all over Twitter.

Dan Frommer Comes Back to Cable...and likes it.

After an almost two year experiment, Business Insider’s Dan Frommer has plugged himself back in to the cable TV ecosystem. He explains why in an editorial over at AdAge and, of course, on his own Business Insider column.

Frommer was an early cord cutter, taking an early leap into the “Hulu Household” domain. I took [...]

Thoughts from NATPE: Chasing the TV Dragon

Back in the office after NATPE 2010, I’m struck with a lingering thought. Content producers are chasing a dying television dream. Its sad, actually. I’m no advocate for bad content, but if what you’re peddling isn’t the next Mad Men, you should have a significantly better understanding of your options than what I saw from [...]

DIRECTV Piloting Sunday Ticket Online for Manhattan Residents

A piece of news I hadn’t seen but which came in handy this weekend for watching my Patriots, DIRECTV somewhat quietly launched a pilot of its Sunday Ticket live streaming service for Manhattan residents at the beginning of this NFL season. For $349, Manhattanites who don’t have access to DIRECT either because their landlords don’t [...]