Apple purchasing TV-on-demand service Hulu would alter television distribution to a degree that we’ve not yet seen before. It would also practically confirm the rumours that Apple are set to launch an actual Apple TV, says Dan Barrett.
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Is TV dead? Cable chief talks future of the idiot box
During the weekend’s US National Cable Show, Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt claimed “there is no such thing as TV anymore.” TV blogger Dan Barrett discusses Britt’s remarks and the future of TV and online distribution.
It’s time to revisit media diversity laws
Our national media has been reduced to six dominant groups. In the face of shrinking media diversity and an evolving media environment, it’s time to reconsider how and why we regulate media ownership.
Daily Proposition: Peep at Britain’s most horrible couple
Peep Show, one of the best shows on TV that you’re not watching, is about the decline of civility in modern civilisation. It’s British cringe comedy at its best, and it’s showing on the ABC, writes Dan Barrett.
NBN takes Australian media to its post-Packer epoch
$43b will buy us a genuine media revolution.
Shock! Horror! Home and Away lesbian kiss will make your kids gay!
The outraged nonsense over the lesbian kiss on Home and Away has nothing to do with a fear that our kids are being indoctrinated into becoming gay, writes Duncan Fine.
That was the year that was in TV. Next year will only be worse
2008 will gone down in the annals of Australian TV history as the year before the money crunch hit, writes Glenn Dyer.
Last night’s TV ratings
The Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.
US previews Kath & Kim, asks WTF
We didn’t particularly want to see Kath & Kim remade for a US audience, and it seems American reviewers feel the same way.
Last night’s TV ratings
The Winners … the Losers … News & CA … the Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.
Media briefs: Hole in the Wall, Tamsyn’s drug message
ITV revenues plunge while the battle for Adelaide rages on at WIN.
A shuffling of senior seats at Seven
Seven’s head of program development is on the move, and observers are nonplussed, writes Glenn Dyer.
Dark days indeed for Eddie ‘Nowhere’ McGuire
Eddie McGuire’s tenure at Channel Nine looks shaky, and the travails at Collingwood FC could make his presidency dicey there too, writes Stephen Mayne.
