Digital Media
must read The looming shakeout in digital media. Michael Wolff in USA Today
Digital Video/VOD
SVOD in the mainstream, TV Everywhere still in the minority. nScreenMedia
must read Study: YouTube and linear TV help each other. Adweek
Cord-havers are happiest with streaming video services. Wall Street Journal
New data muddy US home entertainment picture. nScreenMedia
must read Why TV content owners should stream on multiple platforms. The Wrap
Journalism
This is what’s missing from journalism right now. Mother Jones
Gifted and haunted: Remembering David Carr. Columbia Journalism Review
Radio/Podcasting
must read Podcasting, once a niche labor of love, now can open doors in TV and more. Adweek
must read You’d better worry about connected cars. Jacobs Media Strategies
How important are your HD Radio signals? Radio World
Radio and the culture shifting audience. Jacobs Media Strategies
must read Public radio and millennials. Jacobs Media Strategies
Spectrum/Incentive Auction/Repacking
Not to anyone’s surprise, the first stage (126 MHz in the reverse auction, 100 MHz in the forward auction) of the FCC’s television incentive auction failed to meet the $88.3B target set up by the results of the reverse auction. Here are some links: Multichannel News …and… Comm Law Center …and… Wiley On Media
My quick take: In the next stage(s), reverse auction compensation will need to shrink dramatically. And for each additional stage (assuming they don’t skip a band plan), the forward auction spectrum will be 10 MHz smaller. Less spectrum doesn’t exactly incent greater forward auction investment.
must read Repack update. TVNewsCheck Part 1 Part 2
The pessimist on the block, Wells Fargo, is starting to seem optimistic. TVNewsCheck
Television
Nielsen’s TV universe is up by 2 million. MediaPost
