At NATPE earlier today, I spoke to Keith Richman, the CEO of LA-based online video site Break.com. The company just announced forming an online ad network called Break Media, and…

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Bob Pittman is striking the contrarian note at NATPE, something he mentioned in a pre-NATPE interview last week. Internet is replacing print, not TV, in terms of ad dollars, he…

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I am at NATPE, at the Mandalay Bay, listening in to Jeff Zucker, CEO of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), who is striking a mixed note of pessimism and optimism. --…

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Next week, I am at NATPE at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, for the big TV and video conference. Besides covering the session and keynotes (Jeff Zucker, Bob Pittman,…

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Bob Pittman gives a rare interview to our friend Will Richmond here, and some good insights into his thinking, on the investing side, as well as his view on video/TV/broadband.…

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That was the panel we organized within Natpe today, and I moderated. The one hour panel was packed and went well. The topic was broad (maybe a little too broad),…

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I am having too much fun on the show floor (click on the pic on the right to see some half-celebrities I saw today) to actually be attending the panels....that…

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Jonathan Miller was booked for the first NATPE superpanel long before he left AOL couple of months ago. In any case, he showed up for the “Long Tail” panel this…

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Well, we are a small partner, hence our small logo at the bottom left of the panel (it is also alphabetical too)...see pic on the right. We’re producing the panel…

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Both James and I are in Las Vegas this week for the NATPE conference. Tomorrow, the MLK day, is the Natpe Mobile day, and I am doing the opening keynote…

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Next week both James and I are in Las Vegas (Staci’s doing the rounds this week at CES, as you know) for the NATPE conference. Monday is the Natpe Mobile…

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: [Staci D. Kramer] I had the chance to sit down with Steve Wadsworth for a few minutes after he appeared on a NATPE panel with other top digital execs.…

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You know times are changing when not one, but at least two panelists at NATPE bring up metadata as something vital to the success of cross-platform media. Tagging made it…

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Bruce Eisen, president of online movie service CinemaNow, has been running the studio gantlet. Asked during a session on the future of TV if broadband television was making rights negotiations…

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Call it disintermediating, disrupting, discombobulating—whatever the verb, viewers evolving into programmers, users and producers are changing the game. Adam Bain, who is involved in strategy at FIM, talked about it…

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: [By Staci D. Kramer] During a session on branding in today’s multimedia environment. Peter Moore, Microsoft Corporate VP, interactive entertainment, business entertainment & devices division, mentioned how carefully the…

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The “Change Agents” panel—moderator Chris Gaither suggests it should be called “the elephants in the room”—is underway and Google’s Jennifer Feikin, director of multimedia search, already has tackled one of…

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: Gregg Spiridellis told a few dozen people this morning—and by extension, all of you—that JibJab Media is on the verge of introducing social networking functions as part of the…

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The folks at NATPE have done everything they can to keep folks here through the last day. Unfortunately, once again much of it overlaps. For instance, Dan York, AT&T EVP-programming,…

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New challenges for local TV station operators are popping up everywhere. The most dramatic recent example started last October when ABC affiliates found out they no longer would be the…

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I was chatting with Larry Kramer on the floor of the show Tuesday when we both were startled by the appearance of a woman who appeared at first glance to…

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An overlapping schedule for many of the panels makes it tough to stay through every session. I hit Josh Bernoff’s panel on making money from “new” screens long enough to…

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One of the better panels this week, moderated by Eric Frankel, President, Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution. No easy answers, though, as networks look for income beyond ad-supported prime time.…

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-- ‘Family Guy’s’ Stewie hosting talk show online: The tyrannical tyke in the Fox animated series ”Family Guy” will be the virtual host of a talk show being developed strictly…

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When your new network name becomes a punchline—as was the case when one batch of panelists started trading translations like The Chuck Woolery Channel, Country & Western. etc.—or it’s too…

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