Ten Years Ago... Cable Dropping C-SPAN
Lamb to the Slaughter
[SOURCE: New York Times 2/5/1997, AUTHOR: Frank Rich]
February 2007
DTV Transition Update -- Americans Unaware Of Digital TV Switch
* For more info on the transition see "Getting to February 2009: Implementing the Digital TV Transition"
http://www.benton.org/index.php?q=node/1257
AMERICANS UNAWARE OF DIGITAL TV SWITCH
[SOURCE: TVPredictions.com, AUTHOR: Phillip Swann]
Television's Power Shift: Cable Pays for 'Free' Shows
TELEVISION'S POWER SHIFT: CABLE PAYS FOR 'FREE' SHOWS
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Peter Grant peter.grant@wsj.com and Brooks Barnes]
Dearth of Drama Despite Demand
DEARTH OF DRAMA DESPITE DEMAND
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: R. Thomas Umstead]
Kerry Wants FCC To Investigate Sports Exclusivity
KERRY WANTS MARTIN TO INVESTIGATE SPORTS EXCLUSIVITY
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Turner To Pay for Costs of Disastrous Marketing Campaign
TURNER TO PAY COSTS FOR DISASTROUS MARKETING CAMPAIGN
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
TiVo sees if you skip those ads
TIVO SEES IF YOU SKIP THOSE ADS
[SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle, AUTHOR: David Lazarus]
Lightspeed's Slow Start
LIGHTSPEED'S SLOW START
[SOURCE: BusinessWeek]
Five Questions for Jeff Chester
FIVE QUESTIONS FOR JEFF CHESTER
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Kent Gibbons]
A Q&A with Jeff Chester, Executive Director of the Center for Digital Democracy and author of Digital Destiny. "The biggest fear [about the future of the Internet] is that it’s being transformed into a perpetual, virtual Madison Avenue machine. That we will be bombarded with precision ads that will make us better consumers and not citizens." The solution: "There needs to be national legislation so that people can control all their information." See more at the URL below.
Teen exposure to online pornography common
TEEN EXPOSURE TO ONLINE PORNOGRAPHY COMMON
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Michael Conlon]
About four in every 10 U.S. youngsters age 10 to 17 report they've seen pornography while on the Internet, two-thirds of them saying it was uninvited. Many of the encounters with online pornography, both sought-out and accidental, were related to use of file-sharing programs to download images, a report from the University of New Hampshire in Durham says.