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  • 5% Off-Air After the DTV Transition?

    Jeff Zucker, President and CEO of NBC-Universal hearkened back to a NATPE speech some 13 years ago given by his predecessor, Bob Wright, who suggested that NBC was not in the television business, but instead was in the video-in-the-home business.  Today, Zucker added to that by saying that NBC is in both the video-in-the-home and…

  • Show Me: Marketing With Video on the Internet – The Viodi Book Review

    “Before long, video on a website will be an expectation, not just an edge,” writes Jessica Kizorek in her new book, Show Me: Marketing With Video on the Internet. This book provides a strong argument that video is becoming something that needs to be an innate part of virtually any business. Just as the web…

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  • Redefining SIP for TV

    Will Richmond of VideoNuze wrote a good article today as to how people are consuming media differently than in years past.  He gives an example of how a not-so geeky friend of his is using his new HDTV monitor to consume multiple media types (video, text and audio) from multiple sources (e.g. the PC, Internet,…

  • Juniper CEO Scott Kriens Thoughts on Leadership and Corporate Culture Transformation

    By Alan J. Weissberger, contact alan at viodi.com for information on his telecom consulting services.   On Jan 8, 2008, I was privileged to hear Scott Kriens talk at the SCU Business School (I was a Professor in SCU EE Dept for many years).  Here are the key points of his talk:   Juniper has…

  • Will SPRINT Scale back its WiMAX deployment?

    By Alan J. Weissberger, contact alan at viodi.com for information on his telecom consulting services.   The January 14th on line WSJ states that SPRINT plans to lay off several thousand employees, as newly installed Chief Executive Officer Dan Hesse seeks to show investors a new commitment to efficiency and cost discipline. Regarding WiMAX, the article…