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For the past twenty years, I have spent the majority of my time on an airplane. London, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tel Aviv. Its all in the course of a day’s work.

I live in hotels.

And the first thing I do when I come into a hotel room is turn on the TV set. And the first thing I watch is the local news. (more…)

This, from the excellent lostremote.com

For those who think that newspapers are not going to compete with television news in the realm of video. A Washington Post with 50 cameras in DC also makes it potentially the biggest local TV news station in DC.

Behind the scenes of Washington Post’s video efforts (more…)

In 1990, I was introduced to Jan Stenbeck, the third wealthiest man in Scandinavia. He was a self-made media billionaire, a Swedish Ted Turner - brilliant, mercurial, iconoclastic.

I had spent two years travelling around the world with my small video camera, selling pieces to Nightline or MacNeil/Lehrer. Stenbeck immediately understood the economic implications of the VJ model. He capitalized a company for me, gave me 30% equity and moved me to Stockholm to start building VJ-driven stations. (As you can see from the comment in the article below from Norway, the model works quite well there).

But this is not about VJ… for a change. It’s about how one person leveraged off a technological shift and made (another) billion dollars. Why does it matter? Because, I think, what Stenbeck did with television in Scandinavia in the ’90s, someone will do with video online in the (what do we call them, the ’00s?) (more…)