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Weekend readings for #pubmedia, 11/19/2019

Here is another collection of selected links from my @haarsager Twitter feed.  Happy Thanksgiving and don’t eat anything I wouldn’t. 

--Dennis

ATSC 3.0/HbbTV

Sinclair’s CEO: ATSC 3.0, the only avenue to growth.  TVNewsCheck 

http://www.tvtechnology.com/news/0002/nabs-smith-local-news-crucial-to-democracy/279857

must read  NAB CEO:  3.0 is crucial to local broadcast.  TVTechnology

ATSC 3.0 could pay off but retrans will be part of the gamble.  FierceCable

An open letter to FCC Commish Ajit Pai.  TVNewsCheck

must read  ATSC 3.0 and educational media.  TVTechnology

How ATSC 3.0 changes broadcasting for the better (it’s not just 4K).  Studio Daily

must read  ATSC 3.0 promises to level the playing field between broadcasters and OTT services.  The Drum

Broadband

Say goodbye to net neutrality.  InfoWorld

Chickens and eggs: The problem of the 5G use case.  FierceWireless

Cable/Pay-TV/Cord-Cutting

Pay TV subscribers churn, while cord-cutting rises.  MediaPost  …and…  Video cord cutting data: Telco TV losses contribute to record declines for pay-TV.  Telecompetitor  …and…  Cord cutting hits an all-time high.  Media Life Magazine

Digital Media/Mobile

Online measurement is a mess.  Wall Street Journal

must read  Social drives video to dominate mobile data traffic by 2022.  nScreenMedia  …and…  Mobile video to spur mobile data to grow 50% by 2022.  Rapid TV News

Radio/Podcasting/Digital Audio

must read  For WNYC, radio’s future is all about experimentation.  Fast Company

The Apple CarPlay conundrum.  Jacobs Media Strategies

must read  Listen deeply: The public radio mandate.  Laura Walker in Medium

Spectrum/Incentive Auction/Repack

Noncoms ask FCC to expand repack reimbursement catalog.  Broadcasting & Cable

must read  NAB: FCC needs to extend repack deadline.  TVNewsCheck

Television

A world without commercials? Contemplating the future of TV.  MediaPost

Will smart TV’s stay smart?  nScreenMedia

Weekend readings for #pubmedia, part 2, 3/27/16

Now, the remainder of the links that have piled up since March 6th.  Most of those relating to spectrum, incentive auction and ATSC 3.0 were posted yesterday.  --Dennis

Cable/Satellite/MVPD/Pay-TV

Adding OTT to the mix held cablecos’ position for all-IP future.  Rapid TV News

U.S. pay-TV missed 5M new subs since 2010.  NScreenMedia  …and…  Cord-cutting more than doubled in 2015; pay-TV lost 385K customers, Leichtman tally finds.  FierceCable  …and… Leichtman Research  …and…  Cord-cutting remains muted as major pay-TV providers lost 385K subs in 2015.  Video Nuze

The impending battle over skinny bundles.  NScreenMedia  …and…  Can CBS All Access become a competitive skinny bundle?  NScreenMedia

U.S. multichannel subs drop by more than 1M in 2015.  Rapid TV News

Digital Media/OTT

Adding OTT to the mix held cablecos’ position for all-IP future.  Rapid TV News

With Google Cast, are smart TVs on their way back to dumb-dumb land?  Video Nuze

U.S. millennials show huge appetite for SVOD.  Rapid TV News

must read  Deloitte has released results of its annual Digital Democracy survey.  Deloitte  …and…  What’s the state of TV? A step-by-step breakdown of what you need to know.  The Guardian  …and…  Streaming, binge-watching take hold in U.S.  Media Post  …and…  Deloitte: 70% of U.S. consumers now binge-watch.  NetNewsCheck

OTT emerges as fastest-growing source of ad views, accelerates redefinition of “TV.”  Media Post

TV usage falls in February; OTT grows overall.  Media Post

OTT softening demand for à la carte.  TV Technology  …and…  Digitalsmiths’ Q4 2015 video trends report: Consumer behavior across pay-TV, VOD, PPV, OTT, connected devices, and content recovery.  Digitalsmiths

Journalism

Jay Rosen: “Depends on your point of view…” These are weasel words for political journalists.  Press Think

must read  How the New York Times, Vox and other publishers adopt a product approach to news.  Digiday

Management/Strategy

28 years of stock market data shows link between employee satisfaction and long-term value.  Harvard Business Review

Testing its pay-per-article model in English, Blendle launches in the U.S. with 20 publishers.  NiemanLab

must read  Jeff Jarvis: “Video is a social token.”  NetNewsCheck

Does fair use knowledge change practice? (Pat Aufderheide research).   American University

Vendor Relationship Management: The next step for customers in control.  CMO

The BBC micro:bit education initiative.  BBC

Globalization, technology, customization and overparenting – meet the millennial generation.  Gigaom

Radio/Podcasting

must read  Adam Davidson (Gimlet Media, ex-NPR) on podcasting and public radio.  Facebook  …and…  Fred Jacobs: Radio’s digital dilemma: Opposing viewpoints.  Jacobs Media  …and… NPR decides it won’t promote its podcasts or NPR One on air.  NiemanLab  …and…  Elizabeth Jensen: Why NPR changed how it talks about podcasts.  NPR ombudsman

must read  The Infinite Dial 2016 report is out.  Edison Research  …and…  The Infinite Dial: Pandora down; Spotify, iHeartRadio, Apple Music up.  Radio World

Spectrum/Incentive Auction/ATSC 3.0

Why Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint investors should care about spectrum auctions.  Motley Fool

Life beyond today’s set-top box.  Videonet

[For additional links in this category, see yesterday’s post.]

Weekend readings for #pubmedia, Jan. 16, 2016

This weekend’s selected readings from my @haarsager Twitter feed.

Auction/Spectrum/ATSC 3.0

must read  Cash-strapped U.S. carriers may bid just $33B on spectrum.  Blooomberg Business  …and… Wireless Week  …and…  Chicago Tribune

Sprint finalizes plans to trim network costs by up to $1B.  re/code

must read  Report on ATSC 3.o tests at CES.  TV Technology

ATSC 3.0 brings flexibility of IP to broadcast.  TV Technology

Cable/Satellite/MVPD/Pay-TV

Against all odds, cable sector gets on the upswing.  Rapid TV News

Pay-TV’s relationship with OTT continues to evolve.  Rapid TV News

Consumer Electronics

Six things to know about HDR, 4K TV.  EE Times

Multiple 4K HDR options begin to emerge.  HD Guru

Digital Media/OTT

Predictions for 2016 (podcast).  VideoNuze

Traditional TV is over: YouTube habit is permanent.  The Telegraph

2016, year or connected TV.  nScreenMedia

Pay-TV’s relationship with OTT continues to evolve.  Rapid TV News

Journalism

must read  The problem with journalism is you need an audience.  Gawker

Management/Strategy

must read  Media companies and leagues shift more sports programming to the powerful pull of broadcast television.  Sports Business Journal

must read  Innovation, local inspiration key to content growth on TV, SVOD, online.  Rapid TV News

What Washington has in store for broadcasters in 2016.  Broadcast Law Blog

We need to expand the definition of disruptive innovation.  Harvard Business Review

U.S. content markets set for more consolidation.  Rapid TV News

must read  When television is more than an “idiot box.”  The Development Set

Radio/Podcasting

must read  To attract new listeners, podcasts need to move beyond sound.  Wired

Serial goes missing.  Antenna

Nielsen 2015: Radio reaches, streaming soars, consumers spend.  RAIN News

NPR One: The app that wants to be the “Netflix of listening” gets more local.  Nieman Lab

“Turn On-Turn Offs” dominate radio listening occations.  Coleman Insights

must read  The transmitter mindset: and why we need to get out of it.  The Media Online

What Fair Use Is–And How It works #pubmedia

The title says it all about this helpful overview of DCMA fair use provisions by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan in MediaPost’s Online Video Insider blog.  Thanks to Patricia Torres-Burd of Houston PBS for the tip.

Link:  MediaPost.

Update 2 January 2012: And, from a comment on this post, thanks to Dru Sefton for a heads up on Patricia Aufderheide’s excellent essay on the same topic in Current.  --Dennis

Jakob Nielsen study: kids don't use search

Liz Gannes reports on a study of 90 children age 3-12 in the U.S. and Israel by Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group of a wide variety of children's websites, including PBS Kids.  The study concludes that, unlike adults, children are more app oriented than search oriented.  Interesting reading.  Link:  GigaOM.  --Dennis

Digital archiving for indigenous peoples

Not all media efforts need large audiences for success.  Indigenous cultures are at risk throughout the world (UNESCO says ten languages die out each year) and the spread of mass media and digital connectivity has arguably accelerated it.  Dr. Kimberly Christen, a professor at Washington State University, however, is working to help indigenous peoples archive their own cultures using digital archiving.  See Aboriginal archive offers new DRM at BBC News and Digital archiving tool to give voice to indigenous peoples at WSU Today.  Thanks to Television Archiving for the tip.  --Dennis

Public Media, Public Education, and the Public Good

Henry Jenkins has a two-part interview with Heather Chaplin on these topics (both professors).  Chaplin is an advocate for a National Public Lightpath.  An excerpt:

[J] Your white paper opens with the provocative question, "what part of the Internet is going to be devoted to the public interest?" How would you answer that question?

[C] It's actually a really hard question to answer, based on what your notion of "in the public interest" is. I mean, NPR and PBS have presences on the Internet. And I suppose you could argue that there are probably millions of sites out there that serve the general public good. So, if I were to play devil's advocate against myself, I suppose I would argue that the very nature of the Internet - the anyone-can-publish idea - is in itself a public good.  ¶  But here's the thing, I'm not really the libertarian type. I don't believe that things will necessarily just sort themselves out if left alone. When I talk about creating a piece of the Internet in the public interest, I'm really talking about both public ownership of the infrastructure and content created specifically to educate, enlighten and enrich in the interests of genuine literacy and civic engagement. …

Link:  Confessions of an Aca-Fan.  Part One.  Part Two.  --Dennis

Congressmen: Higher ed must police file sharing or lose financial aid

Cory Doctorow writes:

Democratic legislators have introduced a bill that will tie university financial aid funding to universities imposing stiff penalties for file-sharing, and to universities subsidizing student subscriptions to failed DRM-based systems like Napster and Ruckus. This is about as ugly as pork-barrel politics can get: politicians are so in debt to four of five ailing giants from the entertainment industry that they're prepared to deny low-income children access to a college education if universities don't punish kids for listening to music and piss away money on a useless service that no one wants to use. ...

Link:  BoingBoing.  --Dennis

National LambdaRail + Internet2 merger off

News that the long-awaited merger between National LambdaRail (NLR) and Internet2 is off doesn't cheer most people in the academic/research advanced networking community.  For the story, see John Timmer, Internet2, LambdaRail can't even agree to disagree; merger called off (Ars Technica); John Fischman, Breaking Up, Internet2-LambdaRail Style (Chronicle of Higher Education); and Anick Jesdanun, Ultra-Fast Internet Networks Won't Merge (AP).  For analysis see Gordon Cook, A Sad Day as Emotion Drives R&E Networking in the USA (Cook's Collaborative Edge); Internet2 Responds (Cook's Collaborative Edge); and Some Unsolicited Advice: NLR Should Blow Its Own Horn (Cook's Collaborative Edge).  --Dennis

First Monday has moved

The excellent online peer-reviewed journal about the Internet, First Monday, has moved from www.firstmonday.org to Open Journal Systems at the University if Illinois at Chicago.  Its new (unmemorizable) URL is www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/ and it now requires a free registration.  Its archives have been moved here also.  In a big step forward, it now has RSS and Atom feeds, so I've subscribed in Bloglines and will be seeing new things as they're posted rather than every few months when I happen to remember I haven't visited the site in awhile. 

From the September 2007 number, check out Desperately seeking the consumer: Personalized search engines and the commercial exploitation of user data by Theo Röhle.  Here's the abstract:

With reference to surveillance studies theory, this paper critically assesses the role of personalized search engines as a mediator between advertisers and users. It first sketches the economic and technical background of online marketing and personalized searches. Then, it engages in an in–depth discussion of two examples of personalized search engines with regard to the data collection process used and the way in which this data is used for advertising purposes. The discussion shows that users’ information needs, as well as their personal data, are subject to a growing pressure in terms of commercial exploitation. Essentially, search engines now fulfill the task of translating information needs into consumption needs.

Link:  First Monday.  --Dennis