High-level talks are happening this week in Washington, D.C. this week between Big Business and government officials, focused on an emergency government bailout of the foundering financial and automotive industries. The thinking is that saving Wall Street and Detroit from further disaster will have some kind of ripple (trickle-down?) effect and buoy prospects for smaller [...]

The LA Times, of all places, says that broadcasting is dead:
Broadcasting, simply put, isn’t casting broadly anymore.
As the sweep suggests, the TV networks are losing not just their viewers but also their sense of specialness. They’re becoming just the lowest numbers on the multichannel dial, rather than the last outposts of mass culture. It’s true [...]

The Open Mobile Video Coalition has issued an open letter to technology companies urging them to adopt a single standard for digital TV signals for cell phones, PDAs and other mobile devices.
The coalition is made up of mainstream broadcasters, including Fox, Gannett, Telemundo, NBC, Tribune and others.
The current terrestrial digital TV system was designed to [...]

BBC NEWS has an interesting article about broadcasters joining the world’s airwaves using Campcaster, open-source software which lets people run a radio station from a single computer for free.
Campcaster takes a regular PC and turns it into a tool for managing every aspect of a radio station broadcast. The software is the idea of the [...]