4 posts and columns on congressional hearings

Boxee: Either Jeff Zucker or Jason Kilar Is Lying About Booting Us Off Hulu

in Media on February 4, 2010 at 2:21 pm PT

Little Boxee, the much hyped Web video service, played a cameo role at today’s Congressional hearings on the Comcast-NBCU deal. And as sometimes happens when Boxee and big media intersect, controversy ensued.

Stern Leave Satellite for Internet Radio? Over Sirius CEO’s Dead Body.

in News on February 3, 2010 at 6:15 am PT

With Howard Stern’s five-year Sirius XM satellite radio deal set to expire in January 2011, there’s been a fair bit of speculation that he might return to terrestrial. Given Stern’s obvious affinity for the permissiveness of satellite, it seems unlikely that he’d ever give it up to return to “regular” radio, but would he decamp for Internet radio? Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin doesn’t seem to think so.

Online Ad Snoop NebuAd Gives Up the Ghost. Who’s Next?

in Media on May 18, 2009 at 2:47 pm PT

Talk to online ad folks for any amount of time and you’ll walk away thinking that behavioral targeting–whereby marketers track and chase Web surfers based on which sites they visit and what they do there–is both old hat and the wave of the future. But I’m still convinced that there’s a very big gap between the way the ad industry views this stuff and the way politicians and average Americans do. For a reminder, head on over to NebuAd’s Web site, which no longer works. That’s because the targeting firm, which once employed 60 people, closed up shop on Friday.
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Mr. Newspaper Goes to Washington, Comes Back Without a Bailout

in Media on April 22, 2009 at 4:46 am PT

The newspaper industry wants help from Washington. But it’s not going to get it anytime soon. That’s the takeaway from a Congressional hearing yesterday, where some industry executives pleaded their case–specifically, that they need a change in antitrust law to survive. But if they were thinking that the Obama administration would be receptive to that sort of thing, they got a swift rebuke.
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