What’s In A Network Name? Linear TV Brands Still Looking for Traction Online
Cord-cutting and OTT may be sapping networks of brand equity as well as viewers Read More …
Tag: Disney
Retransmission Discontent
FCC chairman Wheeler seems determined to rebalance the scales between content and carriage. Read More …
Miscalculating movie release windows
Speaking of windows, Disney has touched off quite the firestorm in Europe over its plan to release “Alice in Wonderland” on Blu-ray and DVD just 12 weeks after its March 5 worldwide theatrical debut instead of the usual 16 to17 weeks. Holland’s National Board of Cinema Owners is up in arms, and has organized a boycott Read More …
Is DECE about to get Lala'd? (Updated)
Updated to fix the bad link: MP3tunes CEO (and former MP3.com CEO) Michael Robertson has an interesting guest post on TechCrunch today about Apple’s emerging cloud strategy and the possible role in that strategy for Lala, the subscription music service it recently acquired. According to Robertson, the Lala acquisition does not presage the launch of a subscription Read More …
Getting nowhere on TV Everywhere
The Media Wonk is en route to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show as this is being written, where I expect to be inundated with all things 3D. Between taking off from Washington, DC and a stopover in Minneapolis, however (there’s a reason Delta Airlines went bankrupt awhile back, by the way), my BlackBerry Read More …