By Research and Markets

The global internet TV market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 11% in the next five years, according to our new report Internet TV Market By Type of Content (Content-on-Demand and Live Streaming), By Revenue Source, and By Region – Global Forecast up to 2025.
The goal of the new report is to define, analyze, and forecast the global internet TV market based on segments, which include revenue source, type of contents, and region.
In addition, the global internet TV market report helps venture capitalists to better understand the companies involved in order to make well-informed decisions; the report is primarily designed to provide company executives with strategically substantial competitor information, data analysis, and insights about the market, development, and implementation of an effective marketing plan.

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Posted on December 11, 2019

By Linda Geddes/Mosaic

Pepi Nana stirs, and sits up in bed.
“Tiddle toddle, tiddle toddle,” she says, flapping her arms, and blinking a pair of enormous round eyes. She walks over to the desk, sits down, and, using the oversized pencil in her front pocket, scribbles a letter to the Moon.
“Tiddle toddle, please come to tea, and we can have a story. Yours lovingly, out of the window, Pepi Nana.
She steps onto the balcony of her toy house, kisses the letter and watches it flutter up into the night sky.
What Pepi Nana doesn’t know is that on the Moon lives a waxy-looking creature with coal-black eyes called Moon Baby. He has a fixed smile and a blue Mohican. He reads her letter, pulls up the hood of his dressing-gown, and flies out of his crater towards Earth.
Arriving at Pepi Nana’s house, Moon Baby rings the doorbell, hugs Pepi Nana, and wakes up all the other toys with his African thumb piano . . .
Most people have a favorite TV show from childhood. If you’re a parent, there’s also probably a show that your children adored but you found strange, or even a bit creepy. Right now, for many parents, that show is Moon and Me. It follows the night-time exploits of a mismatched set of dolls – including Pepi Nana, a soft pink onion called Mr Onion, and the milky, clown-like Colly Wobble – who come to life whenever the Moon shines.

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Posted on December 9, 2019

By The FBI

Welcome to the Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday segment. Today: building a digital defense with your TV.
Yes, I said your TV. Specifically your smart TV . . . the one that is sitting in your living room right now. Or, the one that you plan to buy on super sale on Black Friday.

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Posted on November 29, 2019

By Isaac Arnsdorf/ProPublica

Pete Hegseth, the Fox News personality who urged President Donald Trump to pardon service members charged with war crimes, is trying to influence the White House on another military-related cause.
An Army veteran who talks to Trump periodically and has dined with him at the White House, Hegseth traveled to New Orleans in June to address leaders of for-profit colleges at their annual convention.
They are pushing to enroll more veterans, a lucrative class of students – and Hegseth is the face of the colleges’ new campaign to defend a favorable carve-out in federal law.

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Posted on November 21, 2019

By Ernesto Falcon/Electronic Frontier Foundation

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has announced his plans to begin freeing up valuable airwaves within the C-Band, a part of the spectrum – the radio frequencies that our cell carriers, television stations, and others use to transmit services – historically used for satellite television. Once freed, the spectrum would be auctioned and used for 5G and other advanced wireless services. The FCC is making the right call here. This announcement puts the public interest ahead of the desires of the few private actors currently occupying the spectrum, who sought to leverage the hype around 5G to enrich themselves at the public’s expense.
Their proposal, known as the C-Band Alliance proposal, attempted to argue that the nation’s 5G coverage would benefit if they engaged in a private sale of public property, because it would be faster than the FCC conducting a public auction. But limited spectrum is not the main bottleneck to 5G deployment right now. What national 5G coverage lacks right now is dense fiber networks across the country to support high-speed wireless.
The FCC’s actions are a crucial first step. Congress should now take the potentially $60 billion the government is about to raise and invest it in an infrastructure that will last for generations, and propel millions of American households into the 21st century of broadband access.

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Posted on November 19, 2019

By Mike Conway/The Conversation

When the Berlin Wall was completed in August 1961, East German residents immediately tried to figure out ways to circumvent the barrier and escape into West Berlin.
By the following summer, NBC and CBS were at work on two separate, secret documentaries on tunnels being dug under the Berlin Wall.
The tunnel CBS chose was a disaster that resulted in arrests and court trials. NBC’s tunnel ended up being in one of the most decorated documentaries in American television history.
And yet, in the fall of 1962, NBC was under tremendous pressure from both sides of the Iron Curtain to scrap its documentary altogether.

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Posted on November 13, 2019

A Lesson In How It Is And Isn’t Done

The real news is delivered off-air.

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Posted on November 9, 2019

By Elliot Harmon/Electronic Frontier Foundation

The news of iconic children’s television show Sesame Street’s new arrangement with the HBO MAX streaming service has sent ripples around the Internet.
Starting this year, episodes of Sesame Street will debut on HBO and on the HBO MAX service, with new episodes being made available to PBS “at some point.”
“HBO is holding hostage underprivileged families” who can no longer afford to watch new Sesame Street episodes, Tim Winter of the Parent Television Council recently told the New York Times.
The move is particularly galling because the show is partially paid for with public funding.

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Posted on November 6, 2019

By Court TV

Court TV, the newly rebooted, multi-platform television network devoted to live, gavel-to-gavel coverage, in-depth legal reporting and expert analysis of the nation’s most important and compelling trials, launched Monday in the following 19 top-rated, major-market television stations:

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Posted on October 30, 2019

By Darío Fernández-Bellon/The Conversation

Expectations are high for the BBC’s new series Seven Worlds, One Planet, but do nature documentaries do enough for the environment?
The BBC and David Attenborough have been criticized for side-stepping environmental issues and portraying the natural world as a pristine wilderness in their shows.
Even the recent Netflix series Our Planet – which went further to highlight climate change, habitat loss and species extinctions – shied away from depicting the true scale of these problems, according to some viewers.

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Posted on October 28, 2019