Category Archives: Television

Presidential Spectrum

John Edwards A presidential candidate sends a letter to the FCC about reallocating 700Mhz spectrum currently used by analog TV:
In recent years, the Internet has grown to touch everything and transform much of what it touches. It’s not the answer to everything, but it can powerfully accelerate the best of America. It improves our democracy by making quiet voices loud, improves our economy by making small markets big, and improves opportunity by making unlikely dreams possible.

— Edwards Calls On FCC To Make Internet More Available And Affordable, John Edwards ’08, 30 May 2007

The letter goes on to propose sensible concrete actions. So not only is this letter remarkable in that a presidential candidate sent it, but also that what he writes makes sense.

-jsq

PS: Seen on Art Brodsky.

Google + Cable TV

Imminent death of the Internet predicted:
Cable operators are set to return to capital investments of a modest 10 to 12 percent of revenues, but they can be forced to spend much more due to outside pressures from increased Internet consumption and from rival telecoms operators that upgrade their broadband Internet packages to fiber optic super speeds.

“Then, the world becomes cloudy,” Manby said.

Google and cable firms warn of risks from Web TV, By Lucas van Grinsven, European Telecoms Correspondent, Reuters, Wed Feb 7, 2007 6:56PM EST

Manby is “Charles Manby, Goldman Sachs’ global co-head for the telecoms, media and technology industries.” The article remarks that Google thinks the Internet at large doesn’t scale for putting mainstream TV on it, and google offers to provide search capabilities for cable TV instead. Continue reading →