Indulge me for a moment. This weekend is the NFL Draft… an annual rite of passage for hundreds—if not thousands—of pro football hopefuls. ESPN has made it easier than even to follow each–agonizingly slow—selection. The draft is live on ESPN through the final pick around 7:30 p.m. Saturday. It’s being—for the first time ever–streamed live […]
With a little more space and some extra time, this would be a great opportunity to launch into a discussion about the Boston Tea Party, how the Sons of Liberty action against British tax policy helped launch the American Revolution, and how Aereo’s announcement today that it would be expanding its service into the Boston […]
They’re b-a-a-a-c-k. In case you were worried that broadcasters were planning to fold up their tents and let Aereo walk away with a clean court win… fear not. Claiming that an appeals court decision not to shut down the start up that uses tiny antennas to stream over-the-air content to consumers in New York City […]
So, today’s BIg Rumor is that CBS is threatening to take its ball and go home, pull the plug on its over the air signal and go the cable route, a la Fox. Well, there are a lot of words that could describe how likely either of those two companies are to put themselves behind […]
The first app, literally the first app, that I played with the morning I received my original Apple iPad (the weekend before NAB, by the way) was the ABC Player. And that was all it took, I was hooked. Simple, clean, easy to navigate. It was—and in many ways still is, the epitome of what […]
