We had posted about setting up a TV studio in your basement ala Leo Laporte a few months back and it has received a few hits from folks out there. This past weekend we brought our setup online and broadcast/webcast our first live show for Radio Free Red Deer – independent music from the heart […]
Read more "TV studio in your basement – update"Our local TV station – CHCA-TV faded to black at the end of August this year. Even though some folks felt that it stopped being a local station when Global made it a re-broadcaster of the E! network, it still provided some coverage of local news and events. Now there is nothing. In our house […]
Read more "Loss of local TV – feel the pain"The announcement that the Whitehouse.gov site will be moving to an open-source content management system (CMS) from a proprietary custom built system is more than a sign of the times. It is a major move in the right direction and an example that all of us can and should follow. Why go with a content […]
Read more "US Whitehouse goes for an open source content management system"The following info from eMarketer has Canada in seventh spot for internet penetration worldwide. Good news eh! This actually puts us ahead of the UK which we talked about in yesterdays post. What lead us to this article was a Tweet from eMarketer …. We ask…”Why SHOULD Hulu be looking to Canada?”. Don’t we have […]
Read more "Broadband booming in Canada – according to eMarketer"(BTW: the following rant in no way reflects the point-of-view of our sponsors!) If broadcast networks and cable providers are so concerned about the current sad state of local TV, then why have they done so much to kill it over the past decade? There is a battle between the networks and the cable companies […]
Read more "Local TV a pawn in the battle between networks and cable"
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