The Media Drop

The WSJ’s Stephanie Kang has a story on Thursday discussing TNS Media Research’s move to pull info from 100k DirecTV subscribers to get some “new” information about how people are watching television.
Personally, I’m all for something that uses a slightly larger sample than one with five digits. And make sure an check out the […]

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The Onion has chosen to take out some frustrations on TNT for its random running of James Bond film marathons.

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Okay, so how did we miss this, TV-heads? Back on 10/4, MeFi had a great post pointing to the J! Archive, a huge compendium of “Jeopardy!”-related bits. You know you want to spend the next four hours there.

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Earlier this week, I caught this post from C.K. Sample about how his wife, Kristin, was now blogging over at TV Squad. Congrats, Kristin!

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I’m almost not sure what I wanted to say or do the moment that I heard that Hulk Hogan would be the host for the new and improved (?) “American Gladiators” on NBC. None of you should be surprise that this show will perhaps not do monster ratings, but will most certainly have the buzz […]

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While this most certainly serve as a replacement for the full on reviews that I’d been doing of this show over at TV Squad, and I will most certainly point you all over there, where Richard Keller picked up that awesome assignment, I figured I might, from time to time, share my thoughts on […]

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According to Variety’s Josef Adalian, Britney defender Chris Crocker has scored a TV deal to do a “docusoap,” whatever that really is.

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Oregon Public Broadcasting is opening up its source code in a way by asking anyone within its community to become a source of the media outlet. They’re teaming up with American Public Media to launch what will be called the Public Insight Network®, and will handle things in a different manner than what we’ve traditionally […]

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Over at Lost Remote last week, Michael Gay pointed out the ability for you to now drop video content from MTV’s Overdrive into your blog. Quite a big change from *ahem* these days, when Overdrive only worked for Internet Explorer users.
Instantly, MTV is actually relevant to significant numbers of people who’ve grown up addicted […]

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The Associated Press is reporting that the National Football League will be offering high definition replays to officials to utilize during reviews taking place in games. Why is this just happening now? Oh, wait, it’s not cheap. My bad.

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