Das Privatfernsehen in Deutschland entstand in den 1980er Jahren aus einer historisch gewachsenen Mischung wirtschaftlicher Interessen mit politischen Wunschvorstellungen. Als es endlich soweit war, rieb sich das Establishment angesichts des tatsächlichen Programmangebots verwundert die Augen.
Continue Reading...News consumption is a function of the education level of a society and of citizens’ sense of ownership of the public sphere. Forcing media businesses to dangle news as a carrot in front of an apathetic audience will not help.
Continue Reading...The Second Annual Conference of the Association of Commercial Television in Europe (ACT), which took place on 4 November, 2009, was supposed to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the ACT. But it was more of a swan song for commercial television as we know it.
Continue Reading...RTL Group CEO Gerhard Zeiler: “We have to face up to the fact that the heady days of the television industry that we’ve all known and loved, are gone at least for a while.” If not for good, one might add.
Continue Reading...Frequently, cross-media projects are contrived proofs of concept rather than a truly entertaining and inspiring experience. But are there successful models?
Continue Reading...Many hardware manufacturers willingly cave in to demands from the film industry rather than providing consumers with the best usability and compatibility of their products.
Continue Reading...The annual event, trying hard to bring some glamour to the somewhat bland German television scene, was recorded in order to be broadcast only one day later. But the organisers of the ceremony made, as it turned out, a huge mistake.
Continue Reading...Giving Gil Scott-Heron’s famous late 1960s song title a new twist, Amanda D. Lotz examines American television in the post-network era.
Continue Reading...After an endless preparation phase and numerous unkept launch dates, German mobile TV is now being terminated before it even really started. This is hardly surprising, because the commercial players’ business optimism was neither matched by an appropriate regulatory environment, nor a clear notion as to what kind of content should be distributed.
Continue Reading...In the first part of this article, I summed up how television and online video audiences choose what to watch. In these concluding, remarks, I will cast a glance at how EPGs work today and what the future may have in stock for them.
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