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Un-TV - Moving Image Source
Leah Churner of the Museum of the Moving Image provides a history of public access TV in Manhattan.
TV  history  publicaccess 
may 2011 by McChris
AP: Haysbert thinks his ‘24’ role helped Obama
President David Palmer may have paved the way for a President Obama or Clinton, according to the "24" actor.
TV  thereal  race  elections 
july 2008 by McChris
Valleywag: NBC contractor broke Tim Russert death on Wikipedia first
An outsourced contractor working on-site at NBC posted about Russert's passing on Wikipedia before the news was otherwise released to the public.
wikipedia  news  TV 
june 2008 by McChris
Attytood: Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary's "Archie Bunker" strategy for Pa.
This post argues that Hillary Clinton constructs Archie Bunker as the ideal Democrat for the twenty-first century, noting Geraldine Ferraro represented a New York neighborhood much like the one in "All in the Family."
politics  racism  popularmemory  TV  class  NYC 
march 2008 by McChris
AIGA Journal of Design: This Is Not Only a Test
Phil Patton examines TV test patterns and other media tests in this essay.
TV  history  design 
february 2008 by McChris
Bubble 2.0: The 10 most memorable tech Super Bowl ads
This Valleywag puff piece features YouTube videos of memorable technology commercials.
video  TV  linkbait  advertising 
february 2008 by McChris
TV Land Video Player: Hi Honey, I'm Home!
Streaming episodes of the self-referential sitcom are available at this site.
TV  TVontheWeb  video  nostalgia  to:watch 
january 2008 by McChris
Internet Archive: Computer Chronicles
There might be some chuckles in this collection of a TV show about computers that began airing in the 1980s.
archive  history  geek  TV  technology 
january 2008 by McChris
Sesame Workshop Video
Children's Television Workshop now has a site with streaming Flash video of some classic "Sesame Street" clips.
archive  TVontheWeb  TV  education  puppets 
january 2008 by McChris
You're Not My Father
Treewave's Paul Slocum re-enacts a scene from the TV show "Full House" several times with different actors.
art  video  awesome  TV 
january 2008 by McChris
Multichannel News: Comcast Founder To Be Paid After Death
"Comcast will pay the beneficiary of co-founder Ralph J. Roberts an amount equal to his 2007 base salary for five years after his death, whenever that occurs, the company said in a Dec. 28 securities filing."
creepy  cable  TV  business 
january 2008 by McChris
Tuned In Strike Watch: This Week at 30 Rock
Tina Fey is seen protesting outside 30 Rock, but she will be on set this week shooting "30 Rock." It will be interesting to see if they can write the strike into the show.
TV  labor  production  TVontheWeb 
november 2007 by McChris
Deadline Hollywood Daily: Showrunner Explains Why He’s On Strike
Shawn Ryan, creator of The Shield and The Unit, discusses his decision to dis-honor his production contracts during the TV writers' strike. The self-righteous rhetoric gets to be cloying, but the comments provide an interesting view into the opinions of t
TV  labor  production  TVontheWeb 
november 2007 by McChris
K-WHAT? Unbuilt Maui TV station lands questionable call letters
I used to wonder why UNT's jazz station's call letters were KNTU instead of... Apparently folks in Denton are smarter than folks in Maui
TV  broadcast  FCC 
july 2007 by McChris
Consumed: Hello, Kitschy
Rob Walker discusses how NIcktoons is leveraging the internet popularity of NHK mascot Domo-Kun and runninig Domo-Kun cartoons in the fall.
animation  japan  TV  cable  meme 
july 2007 by McChris
10 Zen Monkeys: Venezuela: Dispatch from a Surrealist Autocracy
This personal essay explains Hugo Chavez's history with the media and his current efforts to control it.
TV  politics  media  Venezuela 
june 2007 by McChris
The FCC Implications of Fred Thompson's Possible Presidential Bid
The Broadcast Law Blog suggests that Thompson's presidential campaign may force seasons of "Law & Order" off the air.
politics  TV  FCC  celebrity 
june 2007 by McChris
Cinematical: Director Mike Figgis Detained for Threatening to "Shoot a Pilot"
I think it's worth posting this story from the weekend, but I suspect the TSA agent wasn't so stupid as he or she wanted to be a jerk. It was LAX after all.
stupid  homelandsecurity  TV  surveillance 
may 2007 by McChris
Time Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason
Al Gore uses a tacit "strong effects" argument in this piece blaming television for eroding public discourse.
politics  journalism  TV  publicsphere  technology 
may 2007 by McChris
Broadcasting & Cable: The Groaning of Al Gore
Responding to Al Gore's anti-TV editorial, the trade magazine contends that journalism across the board is responsible for the quality of public discourse.
politics  journalism  TV 
may 2007 by McChris
BitTorrent in Focus: TV-series are Hot
Data gathered by SumoTorrent indicates that TV dominates what users download on BitTorrent.
TV  TVontheWeb  bittorrent 
may 2007 by McChris
Black and White: 1958
"African American high school girl being educated via television during the period that the Little Rock (Arkansas) schools were closed to avoid integration."
image  history  education  TV  race 
may 2007 by McChris
NCTA: HBO's Zitter Says DRM Is Misnomer
HBO Chief Technology Officer Bob Zitter doesn't think the doublespeak in "Digital Rights Management" goes far enough and wants to change the name to "Digital Customer Enablement" or DCE.
cable  TV  intellectualproperty  DRM 
may 2007 by McChris
Austinist: Friday Night Lights Still On, and Staying Here
Yay hooray! NBC has ordered twenty-two more episodes.
TVnetworks  TV  austin 
may 2007 by McChris
NYTImes: Usual DVR Fare Is Not News and Sports
Narrative programming dominates TiVo hard-drives, while live programming is still watched live.
DVR  TV  advertising 
april 2007 by McChris
Bloomberg: TV Networks Adopt Anything-Goes Ad Rates as Shows Shift to Web
The networks are abandoning the half-century model of selling uniform blocks of ad time to deals tailored to advertisers' needs.
TV  advertising  TVnetworks  TVontheWeb 
april 2007 by McChris
Lost Remote: Households to receive digital TV coupons
Each household is eligible for two coupons for DTV conversion boxes worth forty dollars when the DTV transition takes place.
TV  FCC 
march 2007 by McChris
Friday Night Lights photoset on Flickr
Fellow Sooner Omar Gallaga has posted images taken at a shoot for the best new show on TV.
image  austin  TV  sports  Flickr  football 
february 2007 by McChris
Glark.org: My Name Is Meta
"My Name is Earl" producers planted postings on Television Without Pity over a year ago and referenced them in last week's episode.
TV  TWoP 
january 2007 by McChris
Most popular time-shifted TV shows
This post contains many of Nielsen's top-10 ratings for the past year, including top-10 product placements. NBC dominates the top-10 time-shifted shows, which probably means it has a prestige audience desirable to but unreached by advertisers.
TV  advertising  ratings  audience 
december 2006 by McChris
TV Networks YouTube Clone Has Bigger Problems Than Antitrust Concerns
Fox, Viacom, and others are thinking about creating a YouTube clone for hosting clips from their properties. Similar experiments with cable led to anti-trust rulings, but TechDirt believes that market forces would encumber this more.
TVontheWeb  anti-trust  business  TV  cable 
december 2006 by McChris
AlterNet: Keith Olbermann Proves That Dissent Has An Audience
If only more news shows were like "Countdown." I do tire of the celebrity news in the second half of the program.
TV  news  cable 
december 2006 by McChris
BitTorrent Partners with TV and Movie Companies
The BitTorrent Store will offer content via BitTorrent from studios like 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, MTV Networks, and Palm pictures when it launches next year.
bittorrent  TVontheWeb  TV  whoa 
november 2006 by McChris
CBSNews.com teams with Answers.com
Alt-clicking on a word at CBSnews.com will pull up an Answers.com entry, most of which are pulled from Wikipedia. I sort of doubt users will catch on to this design trick (and I couldn't get it to work on my Mac), but it's interesting nonethel
wikipedia  design  TV  freeculture 
october 2006 by McChris
Wikiality
A wiki chock full of truthiness. I'm not sure why we need this when there's Uncyclopedia, but maybe those "Colbert Report' fans aren't as Web-literate as I might hope.
wiki  satire  wikipedia  TV  cable 
october 2006 by McChris
PC World's Techlog A Brief History of Computers, As Seen in Old TV Ads
PC World rounds up old TV ads on YouTube. Apparently the dude-you're-getting-a-Dell are nowhere to be found.
advertising  business  history  TV  TVontheWeb  Dell  Apple 
october 2006 by McChris
subversive cross stitch: Truthiness!
Here's a Stephen Colbert-themed cross-stitch pattern.
TV  fandom  DIY  craft  humor 
october 2006 by McChris
Suspending Officials? A business lesson
Mark Cuban sounds off on the Pac-10 ref's bad instant-replay call in the Oklahoma/Oregon game. He blames the referees' managers rather than the refs themselves.
sports  TV  football  oklahoma  business 
september 2006 by McChris
TIME.com: Why the Future of Television is Lost
James Poniewozik credits online communities and technology like DVRs and streaming episodes for the commercial success of "Lost."
TV  TVontheWeb  audience  business  fandom 
september 2006 by McChris
The Best of Television: The Inaugural Flow Critics' Poll
Flow releases a poll of TV scholars' favorite TV shows. I'll give away the ending and say that "Lost" won.
TV  academic  poll  list 
september 2006 by McChris
It all changed: a breakdown by industry and how to win
Steve Safran of Lost Remote discusses the impact the convergence of broadcast media and the web will have on various media industry segments.
TVontheWeb  broadcast  business  media  TV  radio 
september 2006 by McChris
Editorial: Nancy’s disgrace
Steve Safran sounds off on how CNN Headline News commentator Nancy Grace refuses to accept any responsibility after a woman committed suicide after an agressive interview.
TV  cable  crime  ethics  news 
september 2006 by McChris
Language Log: Relatable
Language Log examines the TV-industry jargon word "relatable." If audiences can connect with characters in a show it's "relatable." I'm not sure if there's such a thing as passive-voice thought, but if there is, "relatable" would be an example.
TV  audience  language  reception  business 
august 2006 by McChris
Crafts - Battlestar Galactica Cylon eyewear
"How to turn an old CD spindle case into Cylon visor." There are some things are even too nerdy for me, but if I were 22...
TV  DIY  geek  fandom  recycling 
august 2006 by McChris
Top 10 Overlooked Moments in MTV History
My friend Marjorie contributed to this list. I'd add Thurston Moore's interview with Beck on 120 Minutes. Beck responded to one of Moore's questions by taking off his boot and throwing it at a backdrop, producing an audible thud.
TV  cable  history  music  humor 
august 2006 by McChris
Hacking Hezbollah
"Last Sunday, the IDF's Intelligence unit managed to hack into Hezbollah's Al-Manar television station and several Hezbollah websites."
TV  war  hack 
august 2006 by McChris
Ad*Access
David Nunez points to this database of mid-century print ads. I'm particularly interested in the ads for radio and television receivers.
advertising  archive  radio  TV  history 
august 2006 by McChris
Tuned In: Fake-News Synergy? You Can't Make This Stuff Up
Viacom maybe interested in purchasing The Onion to complement The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report.
business  TV  newspaper  synergy  humor 
july 2006 by McChris
Piracy Or Promotion? Five Pilots Leaked
Via Waxy, three CBS pilots and two ABC pilots from the fall season are available on Bittorrent. I suspect they came from unscrupulous critics or ad-buyers, rather than insiders engaged in a little viral marketing.
bittorrent  TVontheWeb  TV  file-sharing 
july 2006 by McChris
Pervert's Guide to Cinema - Part 1, 2 & 3
A series featuring Slavoj Zizek and his ideas about film. According to Tom Coates, this has been playing on British television. I wish American TV was so cool.
film  academic  TV 
july 2006 by McChris
Secret Encoder Ring
This is an interesting interview with the administrator of a BitTorrent TV tracker.
TV  copyright  file-sharing  bittorrent 
may 2006 by McChris
Think Progress » Desperate for Supporters, DeLay Turns to Stephen Colbert
DeLay's legal fund features a clip of Colbert's interview with Robert Greenwald on its site. Can they really be this dumb?
stupid  satire  TV  texas  politics 
may 2006 by McChris
Encyclopedia of Religion and Society: Televangelism
Dry academic overview of televangelism.
TV  academic  evangelical 
may 2006 by McChris
panopticist: There Is Something Weird Going on With the Clock on "24"
Here is some flagrant typographic geekery, courtesty of bOINGbOING.
TV  geek  design  typography 
may 2006 by McChris
Telegraph: Farce that rose from the grave
A fan buys the rights to the show "Joking Apart" from the BBC to release it on DVD.
TV  intellectualproperty  DVD  fandom 
may 2006 by McChris
London 2006, Meet 1984
British surveillance camera footage to be offered live and on-demand to home subscribers.
TV  cable  whoa  surveillance 
may 2006 by McChris
Warner Bros. to sell movies, TV shows via BitTorrent
Wow, Warner Bros. is coming out with all kinds of surprising news.
business  TVontheWeb  TV  film  file-sharing 
may 2006 by McChris
Laugh Trackers
Excerpt from a recently declassified FBI memo concerning the 1960s skit comedy show "Laugh-In." Frankly, I would be more worried about the Smothers Brothers.
stupid  lawenforcement  TV  surveillance 
may 2006 by McChris
Why was Colbert press corps video removed from YouTube?
Although I'm reluctant to point to articles on the most widely read blog, bOINGbOING, this thread about CSPAN's funding model and the status of its programming is really interesting.
cable  TV  intellectualproperty  TVontheWeb 
may 2006 by McChris
jeaniwpaper.jpg (JPEG Image, 1463x1091 pixels)
Surreal and slightly disturbing Joey Lawrence fan art.
whoa  camp  celebrity  TV  fandom 
may 2006 by McChris
wheresmy40? - i'm on fire.
Dang, it took me forever to find Mel's tribute to Joey Lawrence, so up to del.icio.us it goes. Now I know why LiveJournal added tagging.
whoa  camp  celebrity  TV  art 
may 2006 by McChris
Tuned In - Stephen Colbert and the Death of "The Room"
Great post suggesting that Colbert's White House press corp performance was playing to the Internet audience. "In other words, what anyone fails to get who said Colbert bombed because he didn't win over the room is: the room no longer matters."
satire  politics  TV  TVontheWeb 
may 2006 by McChris
Internet Archive: Details: Media Burn
I was looking around for this for a presentation tomorrow, and, sweet sassy molassy, Ant Farm's groundbreaking video Media Burn is available on the Internet Archive.
history  media  TV  video  art  archive 
may 2006 by McChris
Television reshapes its economy as technology advances
Good overview of the changing landscape for TV producers and distributors.
TV  business  advertising  TVontheWeb 
april 2006 by McChris
Cow cams roam on MooTube
Longhorns, WebCams, and bad puns, oh my!
texas  TVontheWeb  PBS  thereal  TV 
april 2006 by McChris
Arrested Development by Chase Black
Visual mashup of Star Wars and "Arrested Development."
humor  TV  film  fandom 
april 2006 by McChris
TV Networks, Stations Challenge FCC Ruling
Good for them.
broadcast  censorship  FCC  TV 
april 2006 by McChris
FOX TV Moves Aggressively to the Internet
FOX follows ABC's lead and makes plans to offer TV content on the Internets. They're negotiating deals with their affiliates, in order to mitigate some of the worries about lost revenue in local broadcast markets.
TV  advertising  Web2.0  TVontheWeb 
april 2006 by McChris
Future of Television II: the multiplicity play
More analysis of ABC's decision to stream "Lost" and other marquee shows online.
TV  TVontheWeb  advertising  business 
april 2006 by McChris
ABC.com to stream four TV shows
Oh sweet, now I can catch "Lost" legal on the Internets the day after it airs.
advertising  TV  TVontheWeb 
april 2006 by McChris
Onomatopeyas
Argentine site with screenshots onomatopeia from the 1960s "Batman" series.
TV  history  comics  archive  camp 
march 2006 by McChris
Wisconsin Wise Guys Plot TV Takeover
"Ex-Onion writers shake up A tired comedy landscape"
TV  media  humor 
march 2006 by McChris
MediaRights:Saving Access TV
Changes in FCC regulations are threatening the franchise agreements that fund public-access TV systems. The Manhattan Neighborhood Network system has developed a strategy for fighting back.
TV  citizensmedia  publicpolicy  politicaleconomy  power 
march 2006 by McChris
Pre-pixelated clothes for Reality TV shows
Too bad they're junky Cafe Press items. Pixels are fun.
TV  thereal  geek  humor 
march 2006 by McChris
Talk Shows and Soap Operas Make You Stupid?
Dr. Fogel says watching daytime TV "is a marker of something suspicious;" interesting medicalization of TV viewership.
TV  gender 
march 2006 by McChris
Broadcast Treaty has potential to grant unwarranted "protections"
Article decribing draconian provisions of WIPO broadcast treaty. The proposed treaty would give broadcasters control over content for 50 years after first broadcast.
copyright  TV  radio  globalization  freeculture 
march 2006 by McChris
Manufacturing Mystique: the Blog!: So...!
Jenn gives a rundown of strategies used in serial narratives to deal with inconsistent or superfluous characters.
TV  comics  narrative 
march 2006 by McChris
Your Tax Dollars, Analyzing Cartoon Butts
Rundown of FCC decency enforcement actions by the FCC
media  TV  FCC  regulation 
march 2006 by McChris
NBC Universal chief calls for 'Net-savvy TV pitches
Here's an interesting story about how Jeff Zucker is expecting pitches to take into account different modalities of TV watching.
TV  TVontheWeb  TVonSmallDevices  remediation  newmedia 
march 2006 by McChris
Stay Free! Daily: Smoke'em if you got'em...
Old cigarette TV commercials at Archive.org
TV  history  tobacco  archive  advertising 
march 2006 by McChris
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