Here’s this week’s collection of selected links from my @haarsager Twitter feed. --Dennis
ATSC 3.0/HbbTV
- ATSC 3.0 achieves mainstream status at NAB. TVNewsCheck
- Most U.S. TVs connected to the internet. Rapid TV News
Cable/MVPD/Pay-TV
- Research: Over half of pay-TV subscribers used TV Everywhere in the past 6 months. Video Nuze
Consumer Electronics
- Home to exceed theaters as the gold standard for movies. nScreenMedia
Digital Video/OTT/VoD
- Takeaways from this year’s NAB show with Will Richmond and Colin Dixon [podcast]. Video Nuze or nScreenMedia
- Most U.S. TVs connected to the internet. Rapid TV News
- TV Everywhere users prefer apps to operator set-top boxes. nScreenMedia
- must read Research: Living room OTT use soars in past 7 years. Video Nuze
- Research: Over half of pay-TV subscribers used TV Everywhere in the past 6 months. Video Nuze
Radio/Podcasting/Digital Audio
- must read Local public radio: America’s last public square. Laura Walker in Columbia Journalism Review
- Upload Radio [UK] launches – now anyone can be on the radio. Media.info
Spectrum/Repack/Incentive Auction
- Prompted by auction sales, moves to low band VHF (ch. 2-6) bring both challenges and advantages. Current
- Channel repack takes center stage at NAB. TVNewsCheck
Strategy/Management/Financial
- 83% of ad buyers expect to increase online video spending in 2017. Video Nuze
- must read If ESPN can’t make it, who can? The age of media austerity. Digiday
- must read Curating cultural experiences in the digital domain. The Log Journal [h/t David Othmer]
Television
- Takeaways from this year’s NAB show with Will Richmond and Colin Dixon [podcast]. Video Nuze or nScreenMedia
- Retransmission fees boost local TV station revenues to $28.4B. TVTechnology
