All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Media

Spectrum is a commodity that has risen and dropped in value. Overall, spectrum has assumed an important role in the commercial marketplace and its impact is far reaching. Its impact is being felt throughout the traditional voice business, the traditional film industry, the emerging wireless content...

Throughout Asia, the transition to digital broadcasting is taking place at varying speeds. In those countries that are developed or seeking to achieve developed status, the transition is rapid and sometimes difficult to keep track of. It is slower in other Asian coutries that have to focus on other...

All the implications of the transition to digital television (the shutting down of analog over-the-air broadcasts) – currently scheduled for February 17, 2009 – have only been grasped by a minority of the population. There is a significant risk that this transition will turn into a disaster reminiscent...

1. iTunes is cannibalizing NBC home video sales.    2. Apple’s solution: open an iTunes rental / Video-on-Demand platform.

New forecast from the Television Advertising Bureau (TVB) predicts possible double-digit growth for advertising. Report could help push through some station sales by the end of the year.

In a new media buyer survey: More than 75% of media buyers expect declines in newspaper circulation to accelerate.  64% expect broadcast ratings to decline this season.  Among magazines, teen, celebrity, women’s and business titles are at most risk.

Google News has cut the digital cord between newspapers and their AP articles.  This gives Google a new ad revenue opportunity – and only increases the need for newspapers to deliver relevant, involving and original content of their own.

How quickly we forget. Apple lost the computer operating system war when it chose to try to “force” customers to buy its hardware to utilize its clearly superior operating system. Microsoft took the opposite approach. In this example, we have the benefit of history to tell us who was right. But Apple...

A recognition by one of the leading market analysis and trends reporting services is an indication that Hispanics are here to stay and prosper. The inclusion of the Hispanic community into the main Nielson rating system could simply be rationalized as a cost cutting and efficiency measure, however,...

Apple has a very simple outlook on content delivery, music 99 cents, video $1.99. But the owners of the content want a different compensation package. The war has started in earnest.