Hello friends – I’ve had this blog since 2003, but for the past three years it has been largely used to share links of interest to the public media community that I’d posted to my @haarsager Twitter feed. This link sharing actually dates from 1997, when I started to share them to an email list. So, for nearly 21 years, the value to me in all this has been as a discipline to force me to keep up on industry developments. I’m going to keep doing that, but putting this compilation together takes an additional hour per week. I’d rather use that time to do some related writing, which I intend to have appear here in place of these links, though most of them will be inspired by the reading I will continue to do. Thanks for the nice notes I’ve received from many of you about this weekly effort.
For now, here is the last compilation. You can continue to get these in “real time” from <http://www.twitter.com/haarsager>. --Dennis
ATSC 3.0/HbbTV
- Public TV urges FCC to exempt stations from ATSC 3.0 simulcasting rules. Current
Broadband/Wireless
- FCC’s new broadband map paints an irresponsibly inaccurate picture of American broadband. Vice Motherboard
Cable/Satellite TV/MVPD/Pay-TV/Cord-Cutting
- U.S. cable, satellite, telcoTV lost 3.5M subs in 2017. nScreenMedia
Digital Video/OTT/VOD
- Pay streaming households to reach 450M mark by 2022. Rapid TV News
- vMVPD customer base reaches 4.6M, but has only captured a third of cord cutters. FierceCable
Journalism
- must read ‘It’s going to end in tears’: Reality check is coming for subscription-thirsty publishers. Digiday
- must read There is no easy fix for Facebook’s reliability problem. Frédéric Filloux in Monday Note
- must read Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron delivers Reuters Memorial Lecture at the University of Oxford. Washington Post [thankfully, at the moment, this doe not seem to behind the Post’s pay wall]
Radio/Podcasting/Digital Audio
- Bose Ventures is the latest investor in RadioPublic. Radio & Internet News
