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April 5, 2012
Quipol As online video services like Hulu, YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Video, and iTunes continue to grow, do you think good old-fashioned cable TV is “on the way out the door?” Let us know what you think in this poll!
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We love TV. In America alone, more than 60% of households who own a TV have at least three in the home. Of the US households that have a broadband internet connection, only 6% don’t pay for television service. So 94% of us are still tuning-in to standard TV when we’re not browsing around YouTube [...]
There are several people who stand on a brightly-lit stage and answer questions, one after the other. The answers these people give can define their future, can make or break their success. Millions of people from around the Nation tune-in to see what’s going to be discussed and judge the candidates based on their answers [...]
There are more than 140 million people tuning-in to watch something on television nearly every day.* And yet the attention viewers are giving their television is shifting. Now more of us are browsing the web on our laptops or iPads or phones while the TV plays on in the background, if it’s on at all. [...]
The L.A. Times has some very interesting things to say about the show “SpongeBob Squarepants impairing little kids’ thinking.” Amongst some of the points the Times article hits on is this: “Connecting fast-paced television viewing to deficits in executive function … has profound impacts for children’s cognitive and social development that need to be considered [...]
“You can’t look at this business in the same unsophisticated way you did a decade ago,” said Andy Kaplan, president of Sony’s channels operation in a recent New York Times article on Sony’s pursuit of the new prime time on television. Sony Pictures – which is responsible for some of the undisputed best TV programming [...]
Technology is changing, and with it the stories we see and tell on TV are changing too. But what exactly do the changes we’re seeing mean for storytelling in entertainment? Quora user Mike Sellers provided this insight to give us some idea of what we might expect, as well as how storytelling has been changing [...]
What has happened over the past decade to the entertainment industry is little more than a peek of what’s to come in the next few years. Is it true that the internet has destroyed TV? Close. Though, if we look at the full picture of what’s happening with cable TV we’ll see that the internet [...]
What’s the deal with network channels sticking their logo in the corner of the screen during a show? When CableTV.com blog reader Samia wrote in to ask us about that little logo, we figured it was interesting enough to post about here for everyone to read. Samia writes: “Is there a particular corner of television [...]
Slowly but surely we are entering a very scary time, where every day someone you know will be announced dead. Are you ready? With the recent death of Ryan Dunn – one of the stars from the infamous cable TV show and movie series “Jackass” – we’re reminded of the pending age of “celebrity death.” [...]
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