Can Star Wars Save Disney? Can Mel Save Viacom? Will You Stream Your Fridge?...
This week on Hacking TV, Special Guest Host - Bernie Gershon. First up, Star Wars and Disney - Will Luke Save ABC? Then, the CBS/Viacom Saga - is the clear path to new leadership now set? We'll see...
View ArticleThe Crystal Ball – Looking Ahead To 2016 - Hacking TV
This week on Hacking TV, a look into our crystal ball to see who the likely top 10 video players will be in 2016. Follow us at http://HackingTV.News Send your feedback to hackers@HackingTV.News
View ArticleCES recap. The big keynotes and how they impact Internet TV. - Hacking TV
This week on Hacking TV, Steve takes a trip to CES in Los Vegas and discovers some ways that the future of TV may change in 2016. Follow us at http://HackingTV.News Send your feedback to...
View ArticleCrashing and Burning: Local TV Stations, Al Jazeera, TV Commercials, and ESPN...
Hacking TV Podcast | January 17, 2016 Many of the pillars of the old TV order are cracking. Local TV stations secretly agree to sell their broadcast frequencies. Half of cable subscribers would...
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Stormy Weather: Headwinds for Charter-TWC… Forced detour for FiOS Custom…And...
Hacking TV Podcast | January 24, 2016 * After Steve apologizes for 10 years of pollyannism, he explains why documentary makers will find gold in the Utah mountains at Sundance this year. * Why there...
View ArticleDecoding Facebook, Apple & Earnings… The FCC vs Set-Top Boxes… Watching the...
Hacking TV Podcast | January 31, 2016 Learnings from earnings: Now that 1 billion people are using iPhones, Apple’s growth slows as Facebook mints money from mobile ads. The FCC wants to free you from...
View ArticleComcast Survives Cord Cutting, The Fine Brothers Melt Down, Viacom’s Redstone...
Hacking TV Podcast | February 8, 2016 We’re back with another edition of Hacking TV. This week, Comcast is not being strangled by cord cutting, and more news from the world of earnings. Then, YouTube’s...
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Apple’s Simulates Sex… Twitter Wants To Go First… Facebook Does It...
Hacking TV Podcast | 2/14/16...
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Augmented Reality…Virtual Reality…TED Reality: What Steve Saw in Vancouver -...
Hacking TV Podcast | 2/21/2016 Steve went to TED in Vancouver and reports on some mind-blowing demos Meta [with video of Steve’s interview with the CEO] Microsoft HoloLens VRSE Void Yahoo bails out of...
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Is YouTube’s Fair Use Policy Unfair… Big $$ Flows to Video Startups…Video...
Hacking TV Podcast | February 28, 2016 The #WTFU (Where’s The Fair Use) protest at YouTube. NowThisNews closes its website, BuzzFeed launches a video app, and New York Magazine beets on Facebook...
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Saul and Steve’s Debate: Does Size Matter… For AT&T’s New Internet TV...
Hacking TV Podcast | March 6, 2016 To honor our great political tradition, Saul and Steve disagree about everything this week: 1) AT&T says it will introduce three over-the-top video bundles...
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SXSW. Steve’s Journey To The Center of the VR Universe - Hacking TV
Hacking TV Podcast | March 14, 2016 This Week – Steve creates a video journey to South By Southwest SXSW as it’s called, and shares what he found. Follow us at HackingTV.News Send your feedback to...
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There’s no place like home… to debate virtual reality. Plus Snapchat, Nowthis...
Hacking TV Podcast | March 20, 2016 And we’re both back in town… Steve tries again to overcome Saul’s doubts about Virtual Reality with tales from SXSW. Snapchat does a deal with Nowthis News. What’s...
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Longing for Tivo but repulsed by cable bundles? - Hacking TV
Hacking TV Podcast | March 27, 2016 With spring in the air, the mind turns to love. Steve sings an ode to Tivo and frets about rumors the company is for sale. [Saul says good riddance.] Saul...
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Has the Chaos Scenario come true? Apple commissions a video series…Everybody...
Hacking TV Podcast | April 4, 2016 http://hackingtv.news/Audio/HackingTV-0037-video.m4v This week the chaos ccenario. Not the GOP primaries but the prescient 2005 book by Bob Garfield, the host of...
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The new [video] world order… Verizon, Facebook, Mashable, Buzzfeed. - Hacking TV
Hacking TV Podcast | Apirl 10, 2016 Hacking TV #0038 The new world order… Verizon, Facebook, Mashable, Buzzfeed.1 What if Verizon swallows Buzzfeed?2 YouTube multichannel networks on the decline while...
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Quick before the bots take over the podcast… Facebook takes over everything…...
Hacking TV Podcast | April 17, 2016 At its F8 conference, Facebook announced a 10-year plan in which we will do business by chatting with artificially intelligent bots. We will use all the time this...
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Where have all the movies gone? From Netflix to Amazon. The battle escalates....
Hacking TV Podcast | April 24, 2016 The NAB Convention: Yawn. Who cares about improved over-the-air HD? Not even broadcasters. Tribeca Film Festival: Wow. Steve is blown away by innovative VR...
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When the will to live ends: TiVo, DreamWorks Animation and Time Warner Cable...
Hacking TV Podcast | May 1, 2016 New owners for TiVo, DreamWorks Animation, and Time Warner Cable. Cable isn’t dead yet, but AT&T is reeling. YouTube defends how little it pays for music rights....
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Newfronts Lite: Same Booze; Less Content - Hacking TV
Hacking TV Podcast | April 8, 2016 There wasn’t that much new at this year’s Newfronts, the boozy Bazaar in which web video makers try to lure rich brand advertisers. This year some of the biggest...
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