Social TV Phone co. gets OK to ditch white pages. (YAY!) By Don Day on Jan. 10, 2009 - 8:34 PM I’ve had a few rants here at LR this year – but the one the got the (second) most attention was against phone books. I was even called elitist for my disdain… but apparently I’m not alone. The Cincinati Bel ...
Social TV Retransmission battles put customers in the middle By Don Day on Dec. 30, 2008 - 10:54 PM There’s been a spate of retransmission stories the last few weeks. Fisher Communications stations aren’t on Dish Network, Belo stations almost left Charter, KPHO could be yanked from CableOne in Phoenix — and the ...
Social TV MSNBC.com’s top 08 vid? It came from YouTube… By Don Day on Dec. 30, 2008 - 10:40 PM Beet.tv says the most-watched video on MSNBC.com in 2008 was this clip of two men being reunited with a lion. It garnered 2.4 million views for the site. The video’s source? YouTube. The Today Show ran the clip as part of a ...
Social TV KRON cancels on authors of TV-critical book By Don Day on Dec. 30, 2008 - 10:29 PM Put this in the file of things not to do. KRON news director Aaron Pero drop-kicked a scheduled TV interview with the authors of “No Time to Think: The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-hour News Cycle.” Apparently the ...
Social TV Live, from a hotel room… it’s Tuesday afternoon! By Don Day on Dec. 27, 2008 - 10:32 PM With Boise State’s football team traveling to San Diego for a bowl showdown with TCU, we looked for a way to combine our interactive capability with video – and capture the mid-day traffic spike. The solution was a liv ...
Social TV State legislator wants to require use of real names online By Don Day on Dec. 14, 2008 - 10:23 AM Idaho legislator Steve Hartgen doesn’t like some of what he sees on the Internet. Anonymous bloggers and commentors who can say whatever they want, while hiding behind a mask of secrecy. So he’s working an a law that w ...
Social TV NBC takes Lost Remote’s advice By Don Day on Dec. 8, 2008 - 8:10 PM We proposed a little idea here on LR a few months ago: give Leno the 10/9c slot on the network – move Conan to 11:35pm on NBC and save a boatload of cash. Well guess what, NYT says it will happen, with an announcement coming ...
Social TV Snark alert: A crack in the glass house By Don Day on Dec. 7, 2008 - 12:45 PM BC-APNewsAlert,0058 NEW YORK (AP) — NBC names named David Gregory as new host of “Today” program. (Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) APNP 12-07-08 0753MST I’m sure that was news ...
Social TV Andy Rooney defends newspapers, disses TV By Don Day on Nov. 17, 2008 - 1:07 PM Ohhh the things I could say…
Social TV Why story comments are destructive By Don Day on Nov. 15, 2008 - 11:34 PM It’s all the rage these days. Story comments. Aren’t they neat? Joeblow2938 said the story is great! JaneinOmaha said the story sucks. BlueFriend found a way to tie the story to George W. Bush and the downfall of socie ...