Ice, The Olympics & NBC
This 1852 drawing, from Gleason’s Drawing Room Companion, shows ice harvesting on Spy Pond in Arlington, Massachusetts in the mid-19th century (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Ice used to be a big business. A very big business. Ice was harvested from...
Read moreThe Most Disruptive TV Technology Yet Has Arrived
The Real Meerkat Manor Has Arrived First it was Meerkat launching at SXSW. Then, a day later, it was Periscope. And there are surely more to come. Many more. The latest in the never-ending media/tech/video/TV revolution is ‘live streaming’....
Read moreUndefeated champion 1889-2012 Watching the Olympics here in the UK (where I get to see them in real time and not have to wait 6 hours for NBC to deign to let me see them), one cannot be struck...
Read moreZimbabwe Beats Out NBC On Olympics Coverage
OK I am sitting in my apartment in New York and it is 6PM in NY and 11PM in London. The, so I am told, spectacular Olympics opening Ceremonies, directed by Danny Boyle are over. They were, so I...
Read moreCreate Your Own London Olympics Video
For those of us watching from America, The BBC seems to have done a stellar job of covering the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. However, owing to that old addage that you can’t make everyone happy, The Beeb received 2,425 complaints...
Read moreReport from Travel Channel Academy@Sea
Two of our students head off for Mombasa ready to start filming…. When I was 21 and young and dumb I spent a year crossing Africa overland. I went across the Sahara Desert with the Toureg Bedouin then made...
Read moreBroadband Olympics?
Genius The Olympics are one of those things that only TV networks can do… or is it? In a world of broadband, as opposed to broadcasting, how might the Olympics be ‘broadcast’? The way NBC is doing it this...
Read moreOlympic Memories
The last time I had a ‘real’ job was 1988. I was working as a producer for CBS News, and my last assignment was to go to the Seoul Olympics. I was working with Bill Geist, a contributor for...
Read moreThe News From China
Time to start the coverage….. The summer deluge of coverage of the Beijing Olympics is scheduled to start soon, and the networks are poised to spend tens of millions, if not more, on getting the China story into our...
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