- The Democratization Of Content - A Snapshot Of Snapshot
MediaDailyNews, Frank Maggio - Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Snapshot Publisher was developed initially to create a streamlined means of curating and publishing content to social-media channels of businesses and digital agencies (and their clients). Over the course ...
- Amazon's Mayday: OnStar For Your Kindle?
Real-Time Daily, Frank Maggio - Thursday, September 26, 2013
Amazon recently announced a new family of Kindle devices, and with them, a potentially game changing enhancement called the "Mayday" button. Similar to the OnStar services offered by GM ov ...
- Can Apple Guarantee Your Fingerprint Data Remains Secure?
Online Media Daily, Frank Maggio - Wednesday, September 11, 2013
There's just something... unsettling about the parade of news that's come out over the last five days. On September 7, the New Yorker online reveals that the NSA and Briti ...
- T-Minus 1 Million, And Counting
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Thursday, August 29, 2013
It's 6:13 AM EDT.One million seconds from the moment this column posted, the face of TV game shows - and possibly television as we know it -- could change foreve ...
- 'A' Is For 'Television'
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Monday, April 22, 2013
If Apple's impact on the mobile phone industry is duplicated - even partially - when Apple enters the world of television displays, then cable and broadcast networks, as well ...
- Give Me Control Of Your Currency, And I Care Not Who Makes The Laws
MediaDailyNews, Frank Maggio - Thursday, December 20, 2012
Nielsen is acquiring Arbitron. It's also partnering with Twitter. Welcome to the Nielsen World Order. ...
- 'Checking In' On TV
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Tuesday, August 23, 2011
On June 24, location-based social network Foursquare trumpeted an infusion of $50 million in VC capital -- a piece of news that deservedly received the attention of hundreds of ne ...
- I'll Take a Sony on the Rocks... With a Nokia and RIM Chaser
Online Media Daily, Frank Maggio - Friday, August 19, 2011
On the heels of Apple's ascendency to the market cap throne, and Google's brazen proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobile, one must ask: "Where is Microsoft?" ...
- Beware The Ideas Of March
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Thursday, March 31, 2011
At last June's D8 Conference, Steve Jobs made some astute remarks about the TV industry's seemingly insurmountable roadblocks to innovation. Critics and fans alike posited that Jobs was posing ...
- Put Down The Remote, And Step Away From The Couch
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Wednesday, March 16, 2011
The virtual pages of the TV Board blog are used, from time to time, to define some of the phrases and terms unique or germane to the TV industry. Rarel ...
- Beck Backers Beckoned Back
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Mainstream media has been all atwitter over the recently reported ratings decline of Glenn Beck's popular TV news program. Year on year results appear to indicate that approximately 75 Niels ...
- Censure The Censors
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Last Wednesday's intentionally provocative John Hancock post, concerning Al-Jazeera's efforts to penetrate MSO's with their English-speaking spin-off, generated a record number of responses. The column's unofficial "sentiment tally" would ha ...
- I'll Take 'Game Show Guillotines' For $600, Alex
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Wednesday, February 16, 2011
This evening, the world learns the answer to the burning question on everybody's mind: "Are the TV game shows of the future safe for humanity?" Personally, I believe all ga ...
- Wednesday Morning Quarterback -- On Culture, Kids, And Cola
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Somewhere along the way, the media masters that have kept the football portion of the Super Bowl content fairly safe and "super" have unfortunately learned to slowly look the oth ...
- Who Wants To Play?
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Wednesday, February 2, 2011
There's something about the Super Bowl that brings out the underdog in all of us. It even makes some of us want to make a bold, disruptive proclamation -- a ...
- Thanks, Steve
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Wednesday, January 19, 2011
small group of disruptive technologists and I spent the day yesterday in Ft. Myers, Fla. where we had the chance to dine at the Edison House. Pictures of Thomas Edis ...
- The MRC Pulls Nielsen Accreditation -- Now What?
MediaDailyNews, Frank Maggio - Thursday, November 18, 2010
As we are seeing in the more important currency market -- the one our whole global economy relies upon -- accreditation does not a valid or legitimate currency make.MRC's decisi ...
- Ansin, Party Of 2: Your Table's Ready
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Friday, May 1, 2009
I just received word that Sunbeam Television Corp., owner of WSVN, the Fox affiliate in Miami, filed a complaint against Nielsen Media Research, Inc. in Florida federal court in Florid ...
- The President And The Press
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Monday, April 27, 2009
My post last Thursday seems to have stirred a bit of controversy, but it also helped to galvanize a common belief: We as a nation require a more vigilant a ...
- When News Is News
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Thursday, April 23, 2009
John F. Kennedy once observed that "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion, without the discomfort of thought." In its most lethal form, comfortable opinion often comes packaged ...
- Jim Halpert, Whistleblower?
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Thursday, March 19, 2009
I recently watched an episode of "The Office" on Hulu, and also found that I could purchase the same episode on Amazon.com. Both services were quick, and painless. I wondere ...
- This Is Your Captain Speaking
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Thursday, February 26, 2009
Step outside of our industry for a moment, stick your head outside of a window, and feel that cool, unrelenting breeze blowing in your face. You're not alone. Recognize i ...
- Industry Autopsy Or Consumer Biopsy: Tracking The Newspaper Killer
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Dave Morgan's Jan. 8th Online Spin post, "My Last Column On The Newspaper Industry," delivered an insightful postmortem on our brethren media industry's supposed demise. But I don't entirely agr ...
- Peace over Propaganda - 50 Years Later
MediaDailyNews, Frank Maggio - Thursday, December 18, 2008
The folks at DirecTV, Dish Network, and Sirius and XM owe a debt of gratitude this morning, to a secret satellite project that celebrates its 50th Anniversary today. ...
- The Forest From The TVs
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Friday, December 12, 2008
Question: If a TV were to be plugged into an outlet, next to the proverbial tree falling in the forest -- you know the one; the one that nobody hea ...
- Found: The Missing 50 Million Viewers
MediaDailyNews, Frank Maggio - Friday, October 31, 2008
NOTE: If you're able to get through this post, I'd like to ask you to visit a website that every American with a passion for numbers (and life), needs ...
- Red Vs. Blue, Circa 1972
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Thursday, September 25, 2008
I'm just barely old enough to remember what was, at the time, the most heated election in history. The year was 1972. At stake--tens of millions of dollars, and certa ...
- Reading The TV Leaves
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Friday, August 29, 2008
ABC would have us believe a Geena Davis feminist would be our modern-day president. Fox's 24 had us imagining Dennis Haysbert epitomized the first African-American president. By reading the ...
- Let The Games Begin
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Monday, August 11, 2008
For the next 12 days or so, we'll be dining at an Olympic smorgasbord; a veritable all-you-care-to-eat timesuck of epic proportions. NBC promises us virtually constant access to the Olympi ...
- Televisual, It Is!
TV Board, Frank Maggio - Monday, June 9, 2008
Over the last year I've noticed the frequent use of the word "televisual" by fellow TV Boarder Mitch Oscar. Something about the way the word was being used gave ...