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With viewers migrating to devices in ever greater numbers, and advertisers in hot pursuit, it’s a matter of when, not if, programmers go over-the-top. The problem, of course, is monetization. David Fannon, EVP of Screen Media Ventures, oversaw the launch of Popcornflix.com, an ad-supported VOD service in 2011 and offers one strategy for OTT success. […]

On September 28, The Africa Channel launched daily morning show Expresso, the first series ever to air live on the African continent and then on tape in the U.S. the next day. If you think that sounds like a major logistical challenge – you’re right. Narendra Reddy, SVP, Programming & Production for The Africa Channel, […]

National Geographic Channel has partnered with GE for Breakthrough, an anthology series premiering November 1 that focuses on leading scientists and their cutting-edge innovations, in episodes helmed by the likes of Ron Howard, Angela Bassett, Peter Berg and Brett Ratner. Nat Geo CEO Courteney Monroe talks about the unique collaboration, and what it’s like to […]

By Tino Carlo, founder and director of the Jolt TV Festival When you see the word “festival” written in trade paper headlines, you normally think of Cannes, Sundance, and recently Toronto. Festivals like those rival the Golden Globes or Oscars in terms of their celebrity sightings and taste-making influence. Those events carry some […]

By Randy Cooke, VP Programmatic TV, SpotX “Audience” is a term that has undergone radical transformation in recent years. It’s evolved from a general understanding of TV ratings and inferred demographics from sample-based measurement into a concept encompassing deep, data-driven insights, informed by a proliferation of first- and third-party datasets. The term has […]

By Randee Dawn Make it live, and they will come. It’s a fitting motto for one of the prevailing attitudes of how to draw eyeballs to small-screen content, whether on broadcast and TV channels or in the burgeoning online field of over-the-top programming. David Jammy, whose company Done + Dusted has been behind […]

By James Pooley, author of  Secrets: Managing Information Assets in the Age of Cyberespionage The Great Sony Hack of 2014 exposed a scary truth: information is now the currency of the 21st Century, and cyberthieves are just acting like bank robbers, going where the data is. But hold that thought while considering another news story […]

By Lynn Leahey The potential of the burgeoning Asian television market is huge – Asia accounts for 60 percent of the world’s population, and estimates have the number of pay-TV subscribers reaching upwards of 700 million by 2020. As Turner International Asia Pacific’s Vice President and head of Turner Entertainment and Factual Brands, it falls […]

  By Linda Ong, CEO and Founder, TruthCo. If you’re like me, you should plan on getting less sleep this fall. Not since the Jay Leno-David Letterman wars in the early 1990s has the late night talk genre been such a spectator sport. New entrants like Stephen Colbert (The Late Show, CBS), Trevor […]

By Randee Dawn On Sept. 3, truTV’s most successful series is going out on a limb. Or rather, a wire: In honor of its 100th episode, Impractical Jokers will air a live episode in which each of its four daredevils will attempt a high-wire walk five stories above New York City. Sure, it’s no Nik […]