FX will stay where it’s at, but a new channel called FXX will debut, with an emphasis on broadcasting comedies aimed at young people, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The network currently has nine original comedies (Always Sunny, The League, Archer, Louie, Wilfred, Anger Management, Brand X with Russell Brand, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, and Legit), more comedies than any other cable channel except [...]
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If you don’t watch sports you shouldn’t pay for cable television. An interesting corollary is that even if you’re not watching shows like ‘Mad Men’ or ‘Breaking Bad’ (it stands to reason many of you are not), you are subsidizing those shows and networks and raising the overall quality of television. Networks have effectively entered [...]
One way to read this Bloomberg story is at face value: that cable companies are making console video games irrelevant because they are “gearing up” to offer video games directly to customers. The other way to read the article is to laugh and suggest that Bloomberg got duped by the three major cable providers in [...]
Farhad Manjoo makes the interesting observation that Microsoft’s Xbox is already ahead of the curve when it comes to bringing television into the Internet-era. Over the last few months, Microsoft has turned its video-game console into your TV’s best friend. Late last year, the company revamped the Xbox’s interface, adding a wonderful voice-search feature through [...]
“Showtime is gaining on HBO, says the New York Times: Showtime’s subscriber numbers have gone from 13.8 million in 2005 to 21.3 million today, while HBO has stayed right around 29 million, and Homeland is much beloved. But HBO still has at least one major advantage in that it brings in “slightly more than $1 [...]
Boxee has just updated their media player device (I love their Windows media player even if I find it ultimately superfluous) to offer the ability to stream live television. The downside is you’ll have to buy a $50 dongle to plug into the device and a set of digital rabbit ears ($15) to get broadcast [...]
From Forbes: “AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group is preparing to launch a live over-the-internet video channel modeled on the 24-hour cable news networks. The project hasn’t been announced yet, but Huffington and AOL chairman Tim Armstrong have been dropping hints about it in their public remarks, which haven’t gone unnoticed. It will be called the [...]
It’s a trend we’ve been advocating for — ditching cable tv and going internet-only — quite some time, but the Financial Times looks at cutting the cable cord and the second digital tv conversion. 1. Viewers are pulling the plug on cable tv in record numbers: The number of people subscribing to US cable television [...]
