Monthly Archives: September 2008

Zatz Not Funny Giving Away TiVo Swag

Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 by MegaZone

Zatz Not Funny is giving away some TiVo swag – a TiVo Glo Remote, TiVo coasters, and a set of TiVo antennae. Jump on over there and take your chance – and read the blog while you’re at it, it … Continue reading →

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EchoStar Pitching Cable And Integrated Sling Media Features For European STBs

Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 by MegaZone

EchoStar Europe just exhibited at the European IBC 2008 trade show and they’re making a big push into cable set top boxes. As they’re show blurb says: EchoStar is one of the world’s largest vendors of set-top products for PayTV, … Continue reading →

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TiVo Releases Stop||Watch Results For July

Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 by MegaZone

TiVo today released the results of their Stop||Watch commercial and program rankings for July 2008. The MLB All-Star game dominated the top-watched ads list, most likely because many elected to watch the game live and therefore fast-forwarding the ads was … Continue reading →

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Yay! GeekBrief.TV Is Back On TiVoCast!

Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 by MegaZone

As I mentioned last month GeekBrief.TV had stopped updating on TiVoCast sometime in early July. It had been one of my favorite TiVoCasts since it was added last November, so I missed it. Well, I got a pleasant surprise today … Continue reading →

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Has Product Placement Reached Saturation?

Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 by MegaZone

With the growth in DVR usage and commercial skipping, marketers and advertisers have increasingly turned to alternatives to the 30-second spot, with product placement being a common option. Now Nielsen is reporting that product placement dropped a cumulative 15% in … Continue reading →

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