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"Pick-and-pay will come down to a promotional pit fight."
“We know that some channels won’t make it,” said Phil King, president of CTV, sports and entertainment programming at Bell Media, on the future of specialty TV during the company’s media day prior to its 2015 Upfront presentation. “Everyone has four or five [channels] that won’t survive, or will be what they used to be. That’s the way CRTC wants to run it, so we’ll try to win.” Shots fired.
The fight for specialty channel survival
Watch: "Young Harlan Ellison Speaks"
Paul Gallagher;
In every generation there is a moment when some writer, artist, politician or whatever comes forward to announce that their generation is at the start of a revolution—some seismic shift in culture and society that will change everything for the better—forever. It’s rather like the way each generation appears to think it is the first to discover sex or sexuality and flaunts it through clothes, songs or horrendously written books.
A case in point is this roundtable discussion with a young Harlan Ellison from sometime in 1969-70, when the author declared “We’re in the midst of a revolution.”
HARLAN ELLISON IS REVOLTING: SPECULATIVE FICTION AND THE REVOLUTION OF THE MIND
Part 2, Part 3
"In-house Troma films are by definition low budget. In a world where almost $1 million is the going rate for indie film production, Kaufman is generating films for half of that."
"Further down the carpet, I saw someone interviewing a dog. The dog, I later found out, is Instagram famous"
"The vast majority of web advertising may never actually be seen by end users"
From an end user perspective, moving from a free service to a paid one would actually be a good thing because it would make the relationship between the user and companies like Google more explicit. It is hard to argue that it is acceptable to secretly track users and capture their personal details when the user is paying for a service. Whether this model is going to be as financially lucrative for Google as selling ads is yet to be seen.
Will ad blocking deal the final death blow to already failing online advertising?
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