Here is the latest compilation of selected links from my @haarsager Twitter feed. Lots of good stuff this week. --Dennis
ATSC 3.0/HbbTV
- Will free-to-air mobile video succeed with ATSC 3.0? CSI
- Cooperation, compromise key to successful 3.0 transition. TVNewsCheck
- Sinclair, Nexstar set 3.0 transition agreement. TVNewsCheck
Broadband/Wireless
- End of net neutrality could affect broadcasters. Radio Magazine
- Zero-rated data – is it good news for radio? media.info
Digital Video/OTT/VOD
- Can the TV experience be fixed and compete with SVOD? nScreenMedia
- Report: Majority of broadband households watching internet on the TV. TVTechnology
- User experience is the new battleground for video providers. Video Nuze
- Mobile devices to lift online video viewing by 20% in 2017. Rapid TV News
Journalism
- must read Local TV news fact sheet. Pew Research Center
Radio/Podcasting/Digital Audio
- iHeartRadio’s podcasting SVP: Five podcasting predictions. Jacobs Media Strategies
- Zero-rated data – is it good news for radio? media.info
Repack/Spectrum/Incentive Auction
- Let’s hope reasonable FCC response to crash of its License Management System extends to repack deadline. TVNewsCheck
- must read NAB objects to Microsoft [unlicensed] spectrum request. TVNewsCheck
- What’s next for TV stations repacked as a result of the incentive auction. Broadcast Law Blog
Strategy/Management/Business
- must read How nonprofits can drive healthy growth using social return on investment. Stanford Social Innovation Review
- FCC deregulation threatens local broadcasting. Tom Wheeler in Brookings
- Bezos: Six ways traditional media can save itself. Jacobs Media Strategies
- must read Two essays on mobile strategy: Creation and consumption. Benedict Evans …and… Content isn’t king. Benedict Evans
Television
- must read Iowa PTV’s Bill Hayes has a thoughtful non-tech article asking, “What are we going to do with TV?” going forward. TVTechnology …and… also read an article that inspired it, “TV: An Interim Summing-Up,” from 1950. Saturday Review of Literature reproduced at UNZ.org
- Diginets should be safe in 3.0 transition. TVNewsCheck …and… Optimistic outlook on multicast prospects. TVNewsCheck …and… Economics of a diginet channel. TVNewsCheck …and… Pay-for-play is growing diginet strategy. TVNewsCheck …and… Classic TV diginets make the old new again. TVNewsCheck
- must read Can the TV experience be fixed and compete with SVOD? nScreenMedia
- Nielsen’s Q1 2017 Total Audience Report. nScreenMedia …and… Nielsen
