• Ted Forstmann & Television
    Ted Forstmann -- businessman, financier, "master of the universe" -- unfortunately passed away last month, at the not-so-ripe old age of 71. Many readers know Forstmann as Chairman of IMG, the sports- and media-management firm. But Forstmann's rich career as a leveraged buyout investor comprised so much more. From his founding of Forstmann Little & Company in 1978, he wielded enormous influence on every sector he touched. What's less widely known is the extent of Forstmann's impact on the television industry. If not for him, we might not be where we are today. Really.
  • 'Family Guy' Prompts The Question: Ten Years Later, Is It Okay To Have Fun With 9/11?
    Ten years later, is it too soon for television to have some fun with the events of Sept. 11, 2001? I've been wondering about this since the Nov. 20 episode of Fox's often controversial "Family Guy," a hugely popular animated comedy series that is known not only for its razor-sharp humor but also its merciless lack of sensitivity. In that episode, two of the characters took several trips back in time, at one point preventing 9/11 and at another making sure that it happened. Clearly, "Family Guy" goes too far on so regular a basis that a vague sense of …
  • Set-Top-Box Lexicon: Types of Anonymization
    In continuing in our discussion of privacy and anonymization, we examine the terms that involve the process of stripping and processing identifying information and creating these anonymized datasets for use in measurement. All of this helps to preserve and insure privacy of the individual.
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