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Television Broadcasting and Production

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Sorry, Twitter, if You're in the Media Business, You're a Media Company

    ​Given how Silicon Valley moguls flee from the term "media company," you'd almost think it was as bad as "child-porn merchant." But whether they like it or not, companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are media companies. They don't have precisely the same business models as News Corp., Disne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    MySpace Says It's Bringing TV to the Web -- But It Isn't

    ​Specific Media, now the owners of MySpace, took Justin Timberlake on stage with them Monday night at the Consumer Electronic Show, and with a lot of fanfare, they announced ... essentially nothing. The purported big news is that MySpace is revolutionizing television by bringing it to the Web an ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 19, 2011

    Kirkman Amyx: "Probability, Chance, and Temporality"

    ​Specific Media, now the owners of MySpace, took Justin Timberlake on stage with them Monday night at the Consumer Electronic Show, and with a lot of fanfare, they announced ... essentially nothing. The purported big news is that MySpace is revolutionizing television by bringing it to the Web an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Why Are Tech Journos Suddenly Interested in News Corp. Scandal?

    ​When I was a staff editor at the tech-news site CNET News.com in the late '90s, one of the top editors there used to insist that we "localize" big news events by writing about how they were being covered and discussed on the Internet. So, for example, the death of Princess Di and the impeachment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Does Jobs' No Mean Yes In The Case of Apple TV?

    Apple TV, the final frontier.​ At AllThingsDigital conference in Los Angeles today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs seemingly put the kibosh on Apple's foray into the television market, stating, "The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy ... Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us... ask ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 22, 2009

    Cinco, Not Drinko

    Apple TV, the final frontier.​ At AllThingsDigital conference in Los Angeles today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs seemingly put the kibosh on Apple's foray into the television market, stating, "The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy ... Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us... ask ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2008

    FCC Holding Public Hearing at Stanford this Week

    Apple TV, the final frontier.​ At AllThingsDigital conference in Los Angeles today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs seemingly put the kibosh on Apple's foray into the television market, stating, "The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy ... Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us... ask ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2008

    TiVo'd CSI Like Crack for the Ladies: New Nielsen TV Ratings

    Apple TV, the final frontier.​ At AllThingsDigital conference in Los Angeles today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs seemingly put the kibosh on Apple's foray into the television market, stating, "The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy ... Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us... ask ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    Breaking News: Ward H. Bushee Replaces Embattled San Francisco Chronicle EIC Phil Bronstein

    Apple TV, the final frontier.​ At AllThingsDigital conference in Los Angeles today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs seemingly put the kibosh on Apple's foray into the television market, stating, "The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy ... Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us... ask ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2007

    So Does That Mean Weeklies Were Ahead Of Their Time? Shit, They've Always Been Free

    Apple TV, the final frontier.​ At AllThingsDigital conference in Los Angeles today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs seemingly put the kibosh on Apple's foray into the television market, stating, "The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy ... Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us... ask ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2007

    MySpace To Open SF Office -- Emperor Murdoch Visits System

    Apple TV, the final frontier.​ At AllThingsDigital conference in Los Angeles today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs seemingly put the kibosh on Apple's foray into the television market, stating, "The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy ... Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us... ask ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2007

    Dark Lord Murdoch's Multi-Tentacled San Francisco Takeover

    Apple TV, the final frontier.​ At AllThingsDigital conference in Los Angeles today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs seemingly put the kibosh on Apple's foray into the television market, stating, "The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy ... Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us... ask ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 29, 2007

    Summer Lovin'

    Apple TV, the final frontier.​ At AllThingsDigital conference in Los Angeles today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs seemingly put the kibosh on Apple's foray into the television market, stating, "The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy ... Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us... ask ... More >>

  • Music

    December 13, 2006

    Charting Hits

    A year on the Public Enemy roller coaster

  • News

    April 12, 2006

    KRON's Last Gasp

    How a once-proud San Francisco television station became ground zero in the nation's most controversial experiment in local TV news.

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Best Chronicle Columnist

    How a once-proud San Francisco television station became ground zero in the nation's most controversial experiment in local TV news.

  • Culture

    May 26, 2004
  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004
  • News

    April 2, 2003

    alt.war

    Traditional media mislead the public about the war in Iraq as a media revolution makes traditional media increasingly irrelevant

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Best Grungy Art Factory

    Artists' Television Access

  • Culture

    February 20, 2002

    Flunk You

    If Fox expels Undeclared, blame everyone but Judd Apatow

  • Culture

    September 6, 2000

    School's Out

    When Fox-TV canceled American High, the network hit a new low

  • News

    May 31, 2000

    South to the Future

    Fox to Air Presidential Pageant 2000

  • News

    October 20, 1999

    Might See TV

    Joel Engardio picks his way through the political minefield around ITVS, the San Francisco group that Congress created to put the edge back in PBS

  • News

    June 2, 1999

    Boob Tube

    No one's watching CNET's high-tech television shows, and for good reason

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