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CBS head Les Moonves, famous for stating that he would not "replace analog dollars with digital pennies," now says that selling content to OTT providers like Hulu and Netflix is "adding meaningful and high margin dollars" to CBS's bottom line.

An interesting story posted on Reuters, by Yinka Adegoke 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/01/us-cbs-results-idUSBRE8401N520120501 

The KIMBERLY GAS HUB SERIES, produced by National Indigenous Television, Australia has been announced as the winner of this year’s WITBN (World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network) 2012 WIJA award.

2012 WIJA (World Indigenous Journalism Awards) is the first international Indigenous journalism award dedicated to presenting Indigenous perspectives through journalism in television and audiovisual media. While journalistic standards and ethics are the essences of this honour, the awards in particular look for the portrayal of Indigenous perspectives on stories of local, national or international impact.

Gencom's CEO Ray Sanders is passionate about Indigenous television and Gencom was one of the sponsors for the inaugural WITBN Conference in Auckland in 2008. Gencom played a major role in the original build of MTS and continues to be involved on an on-going basis.

Māori Television, Aotearoa New Zealand was selected as one of nine 2012 WIJA finalists.  It achieved SPECIAL RECOGNITION by WIJA JURY for TE PITO O TE HENUA in WITBN’s in-depth reporting category.  Gencom also congratulates Māori Television on its achievement.

 

Four Weird Things the Internet Is Doing to Our Understanding of Television
By Eric Spiegelman, Contributor, The Awl Source: allthingsd.com

People seem really intent these days on fusing television with the Internet. On one level this makes no sense.    

 

Check out this great article that shines a light on the changing paradigm of Content vs. Channels that is currently facing the broadcasting industry.