This year, interactive TV dreams become a reality

During 2010 the emergence of the OTT market garnered incredible trade press, even with nary a content library agreement, except Netflix

Reinvention Process: Revitalize

Part Five in a Six Part Series: Several weeks ago we started this series on reinvention.  With the dramatic changes in the broadcast landscape,...

2011 Forecasts: New technology to keep the ad ball rolling

RBR-TVBR Exclusive: In this, our seventh yearly forecast from the 4As, RAB, TVB, CAB, IAB, NAA, SNTA and OAAA, RBR-TVBR asked major industry organization heads...

CES focus on smart TVs + mobile, tablet devices and new content sources

Las Vegas:  “Smart TVs” will be all over the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, although exactly what makes a TV “smart” will still be a...

Social media's value extends beyond ad sales & CRM

The Financial Manager’s Perspective: Most of us value social media technology for its ability to support the “360” selling environment and customer relationship management...

RBR-TVBR Fearless Forecast for 2011

As we have noted on many occasions, here at RBR-TVBR we are better at writing about what happened than we are at guessing what...

Reinvention Process: Reposition

We are now on part four on the topic of reinvention in a six part series that started several weeks ago. Now is a good time to think of

2010 RBR-TVBR predictions: How we did

19 stabs at prognostication, we were correct 10 times: 1. Media companies selling new bond issues-RIGHT 2. Clear Channel and Citadel will shed non-core stations-WRONG.

Forrester Studies Online Behavior

Forrester Research released a new study Understanding the Changing Needs of the US Online Consumer 2010. It

13 More Insights on the Future of Mobile Content

Part 5 in a web series on the future of mobile technology: Don't hire desktop computer programmers to build mobile apps.  Have a dedicated...

Reinvention Process: Re-Assess

Part Three in a Six Part Series: The past two weeks, we've been covering the topic of reinvention because it's a time of year when companies are planning

Digital doesn't mean death to radio: Five strategies

Five strategies for today’s radio organizations to take more digital dollars: Speculation is rampant about the “dying” medium of commercial radio in an evolving...

Evaluating the effectiveness of ratings special reports

A lot of stations are doing rating period postmortems right now.  Smart stations will gather all the ratings special reports and promotion, then compare...

Part 2: The Process of Reinvention–time to reflect

Part Two in a Six Part Series: Last week we introduced the idea of reinventing yourself or your business as it's a time of year when people and companies

Prt 3: Traffic & Rev Mgmt Systems: Dashboards or data-mining tools that can be...

An anonymous television client asks if the software systems offer a dashboard or