Cable Turns To Oatmeal
cover in olive oil and sea salt, preheat oven to 375 degrees… What’s in a name? Kentucky Fried Chicken spent a fortune to become KFC, mostly so they could get rid of 2/3rds of their name that had become...
Read moreAnd Now… Google TV
Around here we have been having an internal discussion about changing the name of the company. Rosenblumtv. It’s the TV part (though some would like to change the first part as well, I am currently opposing that move). TV...
Read moreConcentra Prize Nominees Announced
Could you use $15,000? On May 6th, in Antwerp, we will award the Concentra Prize for Videojournalism. $15,000 for the best VJ piece in the world. Yesterday, Concentra, a Belgium based media company, announced the finalists. The Winning Hood...
Read moreGood Bye Floppy Drive
My first computer was an NEC APCIII, the APC standing for Advanced Personal Computer. And for its time, which was 1983, it was advanced. It ran on floppy disks. I had trays of them, each carefully marked. Word Processing,...
Read moreThis Day in History
The iPhone of its day… It was small, it was electronic, you could hold it in the palm of your hand. It allowed you to be connected to anyone else, anywhere in the world instantly. It had however only...
Read moreBritain Plunges Headlong Into 1960
Who looked better? Fifty years ago, politics in the US changed forever. Nixon and Kennedy debated live on TV. Television was then a relatively new medium, but by 1960 it had penetrated most American households and most American lives. ...
Read moreFlying High With Yaroslav Kofman
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiydUnzTyEY[/youtube] Not bad for a first client… For those of you who took the Travel Channel Academy in Santa Barbara or Los Angeles, or who were in the Radio Free Europe bootcamps in Prague, Yaroslav Kofman will be a...
Read moreWEtv Film Academy
Lisa explains where to shoot Today we begin our pilot WEtv Film Academy project with WEtv. It’s a new partner and a new location for us – we’re at their HQ just across the street from Penn Station in...
Read moreA Travel Channel Academy Success Story
From cop who watches TV to TV cop… About a year ago, Jay Russell, a former South Carolina State Trooper appeared at one of our Travel Channel Academy classes in NY. He was the kind of State Trooper who...
Read moreSupreme Ignorance
Say it ain’t so… Net neutrality? File sharing? Privacy? The limits of copyright in a digital world? And lots more. New technologies tend to move faster than the law, which causes all sorts of conflicts. Fortunately, we have the...
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