Category Archives: Video is Dead

Why History Channel Sucks

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Why History Channel Sucks”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailCable is a dead landscape. One of the deadest channels is the one allegedly devoted to things dead people did. I love history, but I generally hate the History Channel — and this short … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Gaga’s “Issue” Video

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Gaga’s “Issue” Video”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailLady Gaga transformed to plastic with Telephone and her new album wasn’t as good as Monster. I’m guessing the VMAs had to make up a new award category before the show, as “best … Continue reading →

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Drive-In Food Horror Open Thread

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Drive-In Food Horror Open Thread”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailQuite possibly the most deliciously wrong thing I’ve seen on the internet in a week: movie theatre food characters become the damned. This is an open thread to raise funds for the blog, … Continue reading →

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Kill Your Television

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Kill Your Television”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailIt seems the big, new threat is your old, heavy television. The rate of injury by falling TV sets has hit a new high: A team from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at … Continue reading →

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Beyonce Dance Moves Killing CNN

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Beyonce Dance Moves Killing CNN”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailCNN has fallen to last place in primetime: CNN fell to fourth with an average of 190,000 A25-54 viewers in primetime in October, just behind sister network HLN, which averaged 191,000 A25-54 viewers … Continue reading →

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Television Is The Reason We Are Dumb

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Television Is The Reason We Are Dumb”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailDavid Simon, creator of the hit HBO series The Wire, almost makes the link: Simon, whose work originates on US subscription cable channel HBO, said: “Only when television managed to liberate … Continue reading →

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Cable is Dead: Makeover Edition

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Cable is Dead: Makeover Edition”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailNo, no… I’m not complaining about Comcast. This is about branding mistakes, and Richard Laermer has a great post over at HuffPo about cable channel makeovers that should never happen. Here’s what he … Continue reading →

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Video Is Dead

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Video Is Dead”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailNBC President Jeff Zucker: (The) initial idea of Hulu was to not suffer the fate music suffered. We had the same feeling as News Corp., and that’s why we came together. We wanted to create … Continue reading →

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Video is Dead

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Video is Dead”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailYou’ll have noticed several blog entries here like this one: Print is dead. Long live the internet! Now, it’s not that printing presses will go suddenly still tomorrow, with all information transmitted by electrons thereafter. … Continue reading →