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...extremely confusing issue. Foreigners aren't allowed to own U.S. television stations, which is why Rupert Murdoch had to become an American citizen to create the Fox network. Is owning a TV station a greater threat to national security than managing a port? Let me make a fearless prediction here: the ports controversy will soon turn into an even greater battle over U.S. defense contracts going to foreign-owned companies, including-as the Washington Post reported last week-Dubai International Capital, which wants to buy a company that makes components for U.S. tanks and military aircraft. Lawrence Korb, a defense...
...FOOD PORN TURNS YOU ON ... The Food Network's website, foodtv.com features not only thousands of recipes from the likes of Bobby Flay, above, but plenty of quick video lessons too. Rachael Ray demonstrates a one-minute party punch, while Tyler Florence explains how to make a simple salad dressing in seconds. For beginners, there are basic lessons on subjects like chopping vegetables, cleaning shrimp and rolling dough. The site is free, but many of the videos are preceded by brief...
...used to be that hit shows aired once or twice on a TV network, then had an afterlife in seemingly endless reruns on local stations or down-the-dial cable outfits. Today, however, series such as Lost, Battlestar Galactica and The Office are treated to multiformat distribution: they are sold as downloads or video-on- demand, cut and clipped for cell phones and marketed via online video blogs or audio podcasts, sometimes hours after they air on television. Or sometimes before. Late last month, NBC debuted another new Wolf drama, Conviction, on Apple's iTunes weeks before its network premiere...
Those new distribution channels are reconfiguring the programming process. "You can't look at a program anymore in terms of just airing on TV," says Larry Gerbrandt, a senior analyst for Nielsen Media Research. "The network has become the first of multiple windows and screens that get exploited. They're now beginning to view themselves as more than broadcasters." An IBM Institute for Business Value study in January was even more blunt: "This is the beginning of the 'end of television as we know...
...levels, an ad-supported model can be most effective. Hopefully, a single model will settle in over the next months." But for Beth Comstock, president of digital media and market development at NBC Universal, flexibility is essential. "The imperative is speed," she says. "You have to be nimble. Every network has to be ready to move where the technology goes...