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Skatopia hits PBS… Brewce & Laurie Video Interview

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Laurie House and Brewce Martin of Skatopia are interveiwed by Thom Hallock of Mountain Lake Journal about Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy. The movie will be playing June 11 at 11PM at the Lake Placid Film Forum.

The Next Big Thing – Traditional Television

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This is a really important article for pubmedia types to consider. While online viewing is increasing dramatically, the tired old “legacy” media is still king. How do we balance the demands of the new with the obligations of the old?

In 4th quarter 2009, the time spent per week with online videos, social networks, blogs, and mobile videos combined was barely 3% as much time as was spent watching television on a home TV set. 

Where’s the beef?

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With the whole media world rushing pell-mell into the “online viewing experience” you’ve got to wonder who’s minding the cash drawer. We all love the free media, but how is quality programming going to get funded? It’s not apparently, if we are looking from money from the best looking, smartest video site in the pack – Hulu.

clipped from www.businessinsider.com

Hulu Can Barely Cover Its Bandwidth Bills

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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Hulu is everyone’s favorite provider of TV on the web, but it’s facing an ideological battle over its future. On one side are its network backers, which would like Hulu to become a paid service. On the other is the advertising community, which would like to keep Hulu free as a test-bed for new targeted-ad formats that can’t be skipped.

Hulu is feeling pressure from its partners to erect a pay wall which would allow the web video provider to get some of the cable programming it covets, such as ‘The Daily Show’ which Viacom pulled off the service last month. ctd..

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