It was way back in 1995 that the US start-up WebTV first began promoting its idea for a web-connected television experience. It probably wasn’t the first, and it certainly hasn’t been the last. But 15 years later, for most people their Internet and their TV set remain sadly isolated. There have been some attempts to …
Read more »Australia’s media ownership laws have long been contentious, placing barriers on cross ownership of media and restricting (for better or worse, depending on your point of view) the reach that media companies can have across Australia’s population. It’s long been touted that these restrictions become meaningless in a broadband age, where a TV station for …
Read more »Last week saw the return of the annual Media 2010 conference in Sydney, hosted by XMediaLab and Fairfax. As in the past two years Media 2010 featured a variety of speakers from across the international media and advertising industries. Highlights amongst the presentations included the chief executive officer from Associated Northcliffe Digital (Daily Mail and …
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