Tag: Television
Old Dominion University Working to Digitize Historic Local Television News Footage
From HamptonRoads.com: The black handwriting scrawled on the outside of the tin is visible 55 years later: “6-29-57 Children Come First.” Inside is film of an education special, aired a year before six Norfolk schools closed rather than desegregate. It’s one of nearly 2,000 reels documenting local and national history that were almost lost – […]
Reference: Media Information: NPR Labs New Mapping Tool
This interactive reference resource launched a little over a month ago and is free to access on the NPR Labs site. Here’s Some Useful Background: NPR Labs has launched a new interactive web-based mapping system that shows the reception coverage for all public radio and television stations in the United States. The Mapping And Population […]
New Stats: “Cross-Platform Report: How We Watch From Screen to Screen”
The Q4 2011 Cross-Platform Report from Nielsen is now available online. You can register (free) to download the full text. A summary blog post and infographic are also available. Game Consoles Now in Nearly Half of TV Homes Consoles have become strategically positioned as a secondary gateway to TV content, and can now be found […]
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Statistics: How Americans are Spending their Media Time… and Money
From Nielsen: Americans spend more than 33 hours per week watching video across the screens, according to the latest Nielsen Cross-Platform Report. But how they’re consuming content—traditional TV and otherwise—is changing. Demonstrating that consumers are increasingly making Internet connectivity a priority, 75.3 percent pay for broadband Internet (up from 70.9% last year); 90.4 percent pay […]
Update: Access More Than 14,000 Historic TV Clips From Across Europe (Free)
From JISC: Over 14,000 items of archived TV footage from 17 European countries are now available via the EUscreen online portal. EUscreen – the result of collaboration between 36 partners across Europe – provides a rich insight into Europe’s television heritage with content dating from the 1920s to the present day. The portal includes rare […]
Statistics: Consumer Media Usage Across TV, Online, Mobile and Social
From Nielsenwire: Almost one in three U.S. TV households – 35.9 million – owns four or more televisions, according to a new report on media usage from Nielsen. Across the ever-changing U.S. media landscape, TV maintains its stronghold as the most popular device, with 290 million Americans and 114.7 households owning at least one. In […]
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Pop Culture: ProQuest Will Release Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive in 2012
From ProQuest: For the first time, researchers will be able to explore every edition, cover-to-cover of nearly 30 major entertainment trade and consumer magazines in a single online search. The Archive’s 2.5 million full-color pages will be accessible in the ProQuest research environment, enabling it to be easily searched, managed, shared and used to create […]
EUscreen Portal Formally Launched, Europe's Television Heritage Online
From Today’s Official Announcement: EUscreen is a unique showcase of Europe’s television heritage. The portal www.euscreen.eu is officially launched today in celebration of UNESCO’s World Day of Audiovisual Heritage. [Clip] Major audiovisual archives in Europe have joined forces to offer unified access to the history of television in Europe. Thousands of video’s and images are […]
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"Scene-Level Television Metadata — Tagging TV — is The New Oil in the Industry"
From an Appmarket.tv Column by Richard Kastelein There are, essentially two ways to tag video entertainment. Curated and automated. And both have their pros and cons. Manually tagging millions of programmes and shows is going to take a decade of Mechanical Turks but this really offers up the best metadata. There are companies that are […]
Film & Television: 'Peyton Place' Finds a Home at the USC Libraries
From the Announcement: The USC Libraries recently acquired the personal archives of television writer, director, and producer Walter Doniger. Doniger is the creator of Peyton Place, a long-running late-night soap opera that aired on ABC from 1964 to 1969. His archives, recently featured in an article by Dan Knapp on the USC News website, document […]
