GLG News by Movie Distribution Experts

The home digital video recorder (DVR) is expected to double to 35% of all households by 2012, according to this report by JupiterResearch.  While I don't often offer predictions, I think it will happen sooner, possibly by late 2010.

Landmark Communications the privately held entity that owns The Weather Channel has reportedly decided to auction the channel. Big media companies like GE's NBCU, News Corp., Comcast and others are expressing interest.

Faced with the prospect of a long cold winter without work, film & TV writers are rejecting the hands that have traditionally fed them. Many may never return to the trough -- with consequences for the long-range future of the Hollywood unions.

The precipitous decline of the traditional music industry holds important lessons for the film & TV industries, which are next in line for a crash-course in new media survival tactics. The legendary David Byrne spells it all out.

Facebook will follow Myspace and launch a German version of its service, some time in the first half of 2008. While Facebook has faced criticism in the USA for the way it introduced a new model of targeted advertising (Facebook Beacon), the issue of monetizing the user behavior of its...

1.  Sharp recently regained the number one spot for sales of HD LCD TV’s from Vizio.  2. 60% households who are planning to purchase a new television in the next six months are planning to buy an HDTV set.      3.  DIRECTV is achieving strong HD growth.

Bills to provide a performance royalty on the radio industry were introduced in both the House and Senate; if passed the measure would mean millions of dollars in fees paid by the radio industry.

The FCC voted to amend the long-standing newspaper=broadcast cross-ownership rules to allow combinations in the top 20 markets subject to certain conditions being met. The action was met with disdain by just about every stakeholder involved.

True, the people meter introduction was supposed to have moved faster by now, but changing to a new measurement system is complicated.  It is better to pause and get things right than it is to plow ahead and commit more mistakes.

The once-vaunted IMAX Corporation has hovered near bankruptcy in the past, only to be rescued by its capitulation to displaying upconverted 35mm movies on large format screens. Now, with digital 3D promising a compelling event-type experience for movie-goers, the IMAX folks need a new trick. The obvious...