Aereo is back in court with a brand new legal theory for why it should be allowed to continue to operate. If it prevails, the implications could be nearly as far-reaching as if it had won in the Supreme Court.…
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Why the Supreme Court just set TV innovation back a decade
The Supreme Court's decision to kill Aereo was bad from a legal point of view -- and downright horrible from a policy and innovation perspective.…
Read MoreNFL, MLB try the hidden-ball trick in Aereo appeal
The NFL and Major League Baseball are threatening to take their ball and go home if Aereo is allowed to continue streaming broadcast TV signals to subscribers without paying retransmission fees to broadcasters.…
Read MoreCablers eyeing Aereo-like service?
Reports that leading MVPDs are considering going Aereo on broadcasters to get out of retransmission fees read more like an exercise in corporate chain-yanking than a real threat.…
Read MoreBroadcasters to ask Supreme Court for early Aereo ruling
Broadcasters, alarmed by Aereo's technology that relays their TV signals, want to rush the issue to the Supreme Court. Their petition is likely premature.…
Read MoreFox station sues Aereo in Utah as TV streaming fight moves west
Hold onto your hat, pardners. The legal shoot-out between upstart Aereo and the TV industry has flared up out west; the outcome will determine if streaming TV (legal in New York but not California) will be allowed in six more states.…
Read MoreReckoning with retransmission consent
Despite broadcasters' trumpeting of the free-market principles they say are at work in retransmission negotiations, the current retransmission consent regime is truly a creature of Congress.…
Read MoreBoxing in Pandora
While Warner is the first major record label to sign such a broad royalty deal its arrangement with Clear Channel is already being looked to as a template for a broader detente between the record companies and broadcasters.But it may not be a template Pandora can follow.…
Read MoreFrom Cronkite to Couric: Internet Archive gets $1 million to expand TV news collection
The Internet Archive recently launched an ambitious project to collect and index all broadcasts since the start of television. This week it got a major boost.…
Read MoreSpoil sports: The coming showdown over TV sports
Over the last 20 months, national networks have agreed to spend $72 billion over the next decade for TV rights to professional and college sports, the Olympics, and other major sporting events, according to a study published by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Add in the commitments for local broadcast rights made by regional sports networks such as YES in New York and the total probably exceeds $100 billion.…
Read MoreAereo CEO: Our cheap TV wouldn’t exist without cloud computing
Aereo, a TV-on-the-go service that relies on small antennas, is getting a lot of legal attention. The bigger story should be how it is using economic breakthroughs in computing to offer a new form of TV.…
Read MoreAereo’s Barry Diller sues to squash copycat BarryDriller
Aereo, a technology that uses tiny antennas to let people watch TV on the go, has already generated a flurry of lawsuits. Now the man behind Aereo is suing a copycat service for using his name. The disputes highlight disruptions to the traditional TV industry.…
Read MoreWill Aereo be the next Slingbox?
Now that streaming broadcast startup Aereo is formally launching in New York, the litigation watch is on. From an operational perspective, the closest analogy to what Aereo is doing may be Slingbox's model. And despite occasional threats, no broadcaster or content owner has ever sued Sling Media (now owned by EchoStar), a failure that ultimately could weaken any case brought against Aereo.…
Read MoreToday in Connected Consumer
The talk of the town this morning is Aereo, a Internet-TV service backed by Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp and formally unveiled Tuesday, that…
Read MoreWatch Your Mouths, Brits: Media Monitoring Service Adds BBC
Companies can now monitor in real time what people are saying about them on various BBC programs, thanks to a new cooperation between the broadcaster and media monitoring service Critical Mention. The service already indexes more than 30 hours of audio and video content per minute.…
Read MoreToday in Connected Consumer
Get ready to rumble. The new National Broadband Plan has been released, and the griping has already begun. Expect the loudest gripes…
Read MoreAchieve Your Goals by Putting Them Online
Nothing will motivate you to achieve your goals like making other people aware of the specifics of what you’re aiming to accomplish.…
Read MoreBoinxTV Now Shipping
A few weeks ago I wrote about the beta of BoinxTV and provided a brief overview of the product. As a quick…
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