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		<title>A Q&amp;A With the Real-Life Maker of &#8216;Arrested Development&#8217;s&#8217; Bluth&#8217;s Frozen Bananas</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/05/15/a-qa-with-the-real-life-maker-of-arrested-developments-bluths-frozen-bananas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sanburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To coincide with the release of Season 4 of &#8220;Arrested Development&#8221; on May 26, the Bluth&#8217;s Original Frozen Banana Stand is popping up in locations around New York and London. But these frozen bananas aren’t being hand-dipped by George-Michael. They’re made by Chuck Pheterson, the founder and president of Florida-based Totally Bananas, a man who hadn’t watched a single episode of the show when he started the company in 2009 and didn’t even realize his frozen bananas were the frozen bananas being handed out to &#8220;Arrested Development&#8221; fans this week – until I e-mailed him to set up the following interview. How did you get involved with the Netflix plan to offer frozen bananas at the replica Bluth&#8217;s Frozen Banana Stand? We sell through distribution channels, so for the most part, we don&#8217;t know where our product ends up. We started sending our product out last week, and another order this week for a total of about 14,000 bananas. We knew it was Netflix, but we didn’t really know what this was all about. Wait. So you didn’t know this was for the Bluth Booth? When I got your e-mail, we looked at it and said, holy moly! That’s when I found out. I thought this was a Netflix party. (WATCH: TIME on the Scene at &#8216;Arrested Development&#8217;s&#8217; Bluth&#8217;s Banana Stand) That would be quite the party. We have companies that buy thousands of bananas. So this wasn’t an unusual order for you guys. That’s mostly what we do. We supply all the Niagara Falls concessions on the Canadian side. We have products at CVS, at Shell stations throughout the state of Florida. Major zoos like the Bronx Zoo or the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans order from us. For me, this was just another order that I thought was for a company party. In our e-mail exchange, you said your phone was ringing off the hook. Do you now think it was related to Netflix and you didn’t realize it? Now, yeah. When we found out, we started sending out<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=79989&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How MTV Decided to Abandon Rebellion</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/05/14/how-mtv-decided-to-abandon-rebellion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sanburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago, reality programs featuring wealthy teens and twenty-somethings &#8212; shows like &#8220;The Hills&#8221; and &#8220;Laguna Beach,&#8221; both set in affluent California communities &#8212; were garnering strong ratings for MTV. By the time Stephen Friedman became the network&#8217;s president in 2008, however, viewer tastes were beginning to change. In particular, the 43-year-old Friedman found that these programs simply weren&#8217;t resonating with so-called millennials, the generation of Americans born between 1980 and 2000. So Friedman launched an across-the-network reinvention of MTV&#8217;s programming, quickly dropping the two shows and replacing them with programs like &#8220;Teen Mom,&#8221; which became one of MTV’s highest-rated shows during its three-year run and led to &#8220;Teen Mom 2;&#8221; and &#8220;Awkward,&#8221; now the network’s longest-running scripted comedy. We recently spoke with Friedman about the kind of programming that appeals to millennials; the reason that he toned down the network&#8217;s long-standing ethos of rebellion; and why it suddenly became OK to acknowledge the existence of parents on MTV. You’ve spearheaded a reinvention of MTV to target millennials. How exactly have you changed the network&#8217;s programming? When I got the job in 2008, one of the first things I did was partner up with our research department to do a very deep dive into where our audience was. We really wanted to look at this generational shift that was very much in process, and what we found was that our programming was still too focused on Generation X. How so? &#8220;The Hills&#8221; was an example of a show that was pioneering at the time. It looked unlike any other reality show with its cinematic quality. That show was still very popular, but our audience started questioning, &#8220;Is this really reality?&#8221; What became clear is that this audience seemed to be looking for something that was much more authentic to their experience. So while there were a lot of fans of a show like &#8220;The Hills,&#8221; we saw the age range moving up. Our typical average age of a show now is around 21. Then it was much closer to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=79845&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Young Americans Won&#8217;t Pay for TV. Will They Ever?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/05/09/young-americans-wont-pay-for-tv-will-they-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s 4 a.m., and Cameron Anderson is already up for work. The 27-year-old manages a Starbucks in Wallingford, an enclave of hip families and artists on the north side of Seattle. Five days a week, she’s at the store at 4:30 a.m., getting it ready to open a half hour later. To get in a much-needed eight hours of sleep, she shoots for an 8 p.m. bedtime – which means she can’t watch Teen Mom 2 on MTV. But that&#8217;s not a problem. &#8220;Online, I can go and pick and choose what I want,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I can still go to bed at 8 and watch all the shows I want.&#8221; Like a growing number of her peers, cable doesn’t fit Anderson&#8217;s lifestyle. And it probably never will. A November 2012 report from digital media analysis firm The Diffusion Group found that 13% of U.S. households who have broadband services don’t have pay-TV (cable, satellite or telco-TV), and of those, 2.6 million have never paid for traditional television. According to TDG, those &#8220;cord nevers,&#8221; as media analysts call them, are disproportionately millennial: 29% are between 18 and 24. A new generation is coming of age, and so is their collective distaste for cable. (COVER STORY: The New Greatest Generation) Among cable networks and distributors, the prevailing ideology is that when people like Anderson settle down and find jobs with more normal hours, they’ll purchase cable subscriptions. Bernadette Aulestia, HBO’s senior vice president of domestic network distribution, says the premium cable network uses HBO GO, a companion video streaming service, to hook millennials on popular shows like Girls, Game of Thrones and Eastbound &#38; Down while they have access to their parents&#8217; subscriptions. When they grow up and settle into better-paying, 9-to-5 jobs, she says, they are more likely to add HBO to their cable packages.  “When you think about what the next generation of consumers is for us, as they then graduate, household formation, then get the house, get the 40-inch screen and ultimately, decide on the types of services, that they’re going to subscribe to us,” Aulestia says.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=74098&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Murdoch&#8217;s News Corp. Threatens to Pull Fox Off the Air in Aereo Dispute</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/09/news-corp-threatens-to-pull-fox-off-the-air-in-aereo-dispute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News Corp.&#8217;s flagship Fox network might cease broadcasting over the U.S. public airwaves if the company&#8217;s dispute with upstart challenger Aereo isn&#8217;t resolved, a senior company official warned Monday. News Corp. COO Chase Carey said Fox &#8212; home of &#8220;The Simpsons,&#8221; &#8220;Glee&#8221; and &#8220;American Idol&#8221; &#8212; might simply move to pay-for-TV cable as a result of its legal dispute with Aereo, a New York-based startup backed by billionaire media mogul Barry Diller. Diller knows what it&#8217;s like to challenge entrenched media behemoths. He helped launch the Fox broadcasting network nearly three decades ago. At the time, it sounded crazy: who would want to challenge the three dominant U.S. broadcast networks? Since then, Fox has achieved what was then unthinkable, by regularly beating out NBC, ABC, and CBS in the ratings. Fast forward a couple of decades and Diller is once again the disruptor, only this time he&#8217;s doing it against the company &#8212; and the industry &#8212; that made him famous. New York-based Aereo picks up free, over-the-air broadcast signals using an array of tiny antennas &#8212; each antenna theoretically &#8220;leased&#8221; to one customer &#8212; and then sends the signals to customers via the Internet. It pays nothing to perform this service. Aereo maintains that because each user receives programming via his or her own antenna, its system is legal. The broadcasters say this is straight-up theft. “We believe that Aereo is pirating our broadcast signal,&#8221; News Corp. COO Carey told an industry conference Monday. &#8220;We won’t just sit idle and allow our content to be actively stolen.&#8221; (MORE: Game On! Why Rupert Murdoch Wants to Tackle ESPN) Aereo launched in 2012 after raising more than $20 million from Diller&#8217;s Internet conglomerate IAC and other investors. Shortly thereafter, the major broadcasters &#8211; Comcast-owned NBC, News Corp.-owned Fox, Disney-owned ABC, and CBS &#8212; launched a joint legal challenge to shut down the company. Thus far the broadcasters have failed to win an injunction halting the service. The Aereo drama is playing out against the backdrop of the broader &#8220;cord-cutting&#8221; debate, as users shift toward services like Netflix and Hulu. Today, most consumers receive basic broadcast programming through cable TV packages.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=77171&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Google Fiber Heading to Austin as Cities Race to Boost Web Speeds</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/08/google-fiber-reportedly-coming-to-austin-tx-as-cities-race-to-boost-web-speeds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[America&#8217;s weirdest city is about to get wired. Google Fiber is heading to Austin, according to multiple reports. If true, Austin, home of the South by Southwest festival, will become the largest city to receive Google&#8217;s superfast, 1-gigabit Internet-and-TV service after Google Fiber&#8217;s initial launch in Kansas City, Mo., last year. In a tantalizing clue, Google Fiber&#8217;s news website briefly flashed a message over the weekend reading: &#8220;Google Fiber&#8217;s Next Stop: Austin, Texas.&#8221; Google may have inadvertently managed to scoop its own announcement, because the message was quickly removed. &#8220;It’s no longer a question,&#8221; Austin-based blogger Stacey Higginbotham, a senior writer for GigaOm, wrote on Saturday. &#8220;Google is bringing its Google Fiber network to Austin. I’ve confirmed it with sources, and the brief publication of a post in the middle of the night by Google should assuage anyone else’s doubts.&#8221; Google Fiber&#8217;s arrival in Austin would be the clearest signal yet that the tech giant is serious about becoming an Internet-service provider — and isn&#8217;t merely out to shame existing broadband giants with its lightning-fast service. In Austin, Google Fiber would compete with the nation&#8217;s second largest cable company, Time Warner Cable, which dominates the Austin market. (TIME parent Time Warner spun off the cable giant in 2009.) Last month, Google announced that it is expanding the service to the Kansas City suburb of Olathe. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think this should surprise anyone because Google’s leadership has been saying that this is not just a science experiment,&#8221; says Blair Levin, a former senior Federal Communications Commission official who led the U.S. National Broadband Plan. &#8220;It’s looking more and more like they want to make this a real business, and that should excite everyone.&#8221; (MORE: Google Fiber Expanding Superfast Internet Service to Olathe, Kans.) Technology experts, business leaders and government officials agree that faster Internet speeds will help boost the U.S. economy. Earlier this year, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski called for at least 1-gigabit broadband community in each of the 50 states by 2015. &#8220;American economic history teaches a clear lesson about infrastructure,&#8221; Genachowski said. &#8220;If we build it, innovation will come. The U.S. needs a critical mass<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=76968&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boob Tube Saturation: After TV Sales Decline Worldwide, Will Price Drops Follow?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/05/boob-tube-saturation-after-tv-sales-decline-worldwide-will-price-drops-follow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumers aren&#8217;t falling out of love with their TVs. More likely, they can&#8217;t justify replacing the big new TV they purchased not long ago, or they&#8217;ve run out of places to put yet another screen. The TV market hit a wall last year, according to a report from IHS iSuppli. Global shipments of LCD units declined for the first time ever, and all shipments of all TVs dipped by 6.3% compared to 2011. Sales dropped particularly sharply in regions that traditionally have the most disposable income, and the biggest appetites for new tech: Japan, Western Europe, and North America. IHS analysts expect TV sales to remain flat for a couple more years, before creeping upward in 2015. And why have TV sales fallen? The report suggests that part of the reason is that consumers already have their fill of TVs after scooping up new units in recent years: In North America, the decline was caused by a mixture of economic factors and by the fact that consumers had increased their demand in 2010 and 2011. By 2012, however, buyers had expended their disposable income for television purchases. (MORE: Analyst Says 60-Inch Apple iTV to Launch This Year) &#8220;Developed markets have become saturated with flat-panel televisions,&#8221; said IHS analyst Tom Morrod. A recent NPD DisplaySearch study likewise noted that global LCD shipments dropped for the first time ever last year, with demand declining especially prominently in Japan and Western Europe. TV saturation isn&#8217;t the only factor that&#8217;s led to weak sales. TV prices haven&#8217;t been especially good, as electronics manufacturers have been more reluctant to resort to the deep levels of discounting seen during the peak Great Recession years. “Economic conditions certainly had an impact on demand, but a very mild price erosion also played a role,&#8221; said Paul Gagnon, NPD&#8217;s Director of global TV research. Average prices for flat-panel TVs fell just 2% in 2012, according to Gagnon, compared to a 5% drop in 2011 and declines in excess of 10% the year before. It&#8217;s not that prices are all<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=76654&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Hit Bible Miniseries: The Man Who Helps Hollywood Get Religion</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/01/behind-the-hit-bible-miniseries-the-man-who-helps-hollywood-get-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sanburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bible, the five-part, 10-hour miniseries on History, which aired its final episode Sunday, has become the biggest cable television hit of the year. It brought in almost 13 million viewers the first night and consistently garnered 10 million viewers each episode. It even regularly beat AMC’s top-rated Sunday-night series The Walking Dead. A key to the show&#8217;s success is a man who went to Hollywood with hopes of making it as a sitcom writer. Instead, he became the spiritual bridge between the entertainment industry and the tens of millions of evangelicals in the U.S. Historically, Hollywood hasn’t paid much attention to the Christian community. Movie and TV studios are more likely to rile up prominent evangelicals in the U.S. than cozy up to them. But today, the industry seems to be tapping into the faith-based market more than ever before. And it&#8217;s not just shows with overt religious messages, although there are plenty: The American Bible Challenge on the Game Show Network, for example, has been the biggest hit in the channel’s 17-year history. The reality show Preachers&#8217; Daughters currently airs on Lifetime. A series called The Vatican is in the works for Showtime. An epic Darren Aronofsky movie, Noah, to star Russell Crowe, is scheduled for release in 2014. And in an effort to tap into The Bible’s success before it&#8217;s even off the air, a six-hour, $20 million miniseries called Jesus of Nazareth is already in production. The man at the center of much of this is Jonathan Bock, the founder and president of Grace Hill Media, a public-relations and marketing firm that acts as a middleman between Hollywood and the country&#8217;s faithful. “I sit on a funny fence,” says Bock, who advises movie execs on religious content, helps market those films and reaches out to the Christian community through churches, religious organizations and media outlets. “I help these two worlds that don’t often intersect understand each other and help them realize that they can be of great benefit to one another.” Bock didn’t start out thinking he’d be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=75933&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As FCC Chief&#8217;s Term Nears End, Speculation Grows Over Possible Successor</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/02/21/as-fcc-chiefs-term-nears-end-speculation-mounts-over-possible-successor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 30th, Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski&#8217;s five-year term will expire, which has led to speculation that Genachowski might soon announce his departure. Although the FCC chair is not a cabinet-level position, D.C. chatter is already flying fast and furious about Genachowski&#8217;s replacement, because the FCC holds broad regulatory power over the most important media, communications, and technology companies in the United States. There is particular focus on Genachowski&#8217;s future in part because his term at the FCC has been so contentious. Throughout his tenure, he has tried to thread a centrist needle on issues like broadband policy, industry competition, and media consolidation. In doing so, he has managed to annoy almost every constituency, from public interest groups that have pushed for a more activist FCC, to industry giants who have bristled at some of his decisions. For example, Genachowski&#8217;s decision to approve Comcast&#8217;s purchase of NBCUniversal dismayed media reform advocates. On the other side of the ledger, his rejection of AT&#38;T&#8217;s proposed purchase of T-Mobile infuriated AT&#38;T CEO Randall Stephenson. One might say that the fact that he&#8217;s displeased two historically opposed forces &#8212; public interest groups and industry titans &#8212; suggests that he&#8217;s actually done a relatively balanced job, but there is no doubt that he is not the most popular official in Washington, D.C. (MORE: Comcast’s NBCUniversal Deal: As One Media Era Ends, Another Begins) Whoever serves as the next FCC chairman &#8212; whether it&#8217;s Genachowski or someone else &#8212; will confront a host of difficult issues. The agency is currently preparing for a complex wireless spectrum auction next year. The FCC is also weighing new rules regarding media ownership. And the agency faces a closely-watched legal challenge over its authority to enforce its &#8220;Open Internet&#8221; rules. Meanwhile, the FCC still has a lot of work to do to help improve broadband speed, service, and competition in the United States. In short, the FCC chairman has a crucially important and difficult government job, which is why it&#8217;s vital that the public be informed about the future of the agency and its leadership. A spokesman for the FCC declined to comment on<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=70290&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comcast&#8217;s NBCUniversal Deal: As One Media Era Ends, Another Begins</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/02/14/comcasts-nbcuniversal-deal-as-one-media-era-ends-another-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comcast&#8217;s $16.7 billion deal to purchase the remaining half of NBCUniversal from General Electric solidifies the cable and broadband giant&#8217;s role as a media titan and represents a triumph for CEO Brian Roberts, whose father founded Comcast in 1963 by buying a 1,200-subscriber cable TV company in Tupelo, Miss. for $500,000. Since then, Comcast has steadily grown through acquisitions and savvy business deals. It is now the largest cable company in the United States, and one of the largest providers of broadband Internet and home phone service. GE&#8217;s sale of its remaining NBCUniversal stake marks a symbolic milestone in the history of American broadcast media, and the arrival of a new, digital era in which cable-giant Comcast has emerged as a dominant force in entertainment and communications. By assuming full ownership of NBC Universal &#8212; which includes NBC&#8217;s famed &#8220;Peacock Network,&#8221; NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, Universal Pictures, the Universal theme parks and resorts, and several popular cable channels, including Bravo &#8212; Comcast takes full control of a crown jewel of American news and entertainment, whose history mirrors the emergence of modern broadcast media in the 20th Century. For Comcast, the deal represents a clear commitment to cable and broadcast television, even as the Internet revolution has given consumers more entertainment choices than ever before. Despite past fears that the Internet would eviscerate TV advertising, much as it has done to print media, television &#8212; especially cable TV &#8212; remains a highly profitable and growing business. (MORE: Liberty’s Virgin Deal Sets Up Media Clash Between Malone and Murdoch) &#8220;Our decision to acquire GE&#8217;s ownership is driven by our sense of optimism for the future prospects of NBCUniversal and our desire to capture future value that we hope to create for our shareholders,&#8221; Roberts said in a statement. Comcast shares jumped 3% Wednesday in response to the deal, touching a multi-year high; the company&#8217;s stock price has increased 46% over the past year and 68% over the past two years. For GE, divesting its remaining NBCUniversal stake is part of CEO Jeffrey Immelt&#8217;s plan to focus on the company&#8217;s industrial businesses. GE,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=70612&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can House of Cards Help Netflix Take on HBO and the Other Cable Giants?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/02/05/can-house-of-cards-help-netflix-take-on-hbo-and-the-other-cable-giants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Luckerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A hit cable drama on a channel like AMC, Showtime, or HBO follows a pretty typical trajectory. A quiet launch draws the attention of TV critics who sing the show’s praises. Over the course of several weeks, word of mouth helps the show to slowly build name recognition. By the time you’ve hit the season finale, the show’s taking over the trending list on Twitter and maybe setting a new ratings record for its channel (see: Downton Abbey, Homeland and The Walking Dead). According to Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos, this decades-old model won&#8217;t work for an &#8220;on-demand&#8221; generation that expects to access content on their own terms. “That’s old media business-thinking,” he says. “What we’re seeing our subscribers do is jump into these shows that they haven’t seen before and watch them episode after episode.” Now, in addition to binging on cable staples like Mad Men and Breaking Bad, Netflix subscribers have a brand new program to devour as quickly as they see fit. On Friday Netflix debuted 13 episodes of its first original show, the political thriller House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey and directed by David Fincher of Fight Club and The Social Network fame. By releasing the entire first season simultaneously, Netflix is making several large bets at once—that people who pay $8 a month to watch old TV shows and movies are interested in new programming; that new shows will help broaden their subscriber base; and that an hour-long drama doesn’t need the week-long suspense, speculation, and media promotion in between episodes to break into the pop culture consciousness. (MORE: Review: House of Cards Sinks its Sharp Teeth Into Washington) The show, originally shopped to the usual cable mainstays, has the production values and star power of the programs you’d find on HBO or Showtime. (TIME and HBO are both owned by parent company Time Warner.) Netflix has paid a reported $100 million for the distribution rights to two seasons of the project, which has a cost in the realm of high-profile programs like Game<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=69706&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Testing the Science of Sharing at the Super Bowl: Can Viral Ads Be Manufactured?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/02/04/testing-the-science-of-sharing-at-the-super-bowl-can-viral-ads-be-manufactured/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sanburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2003, before Facebook and Twitter and YouTube, before Keyboard Cat and Charlie Bit My Finger and Justin Bieber, before viral wasn’t much more than a medical term, start-up ad agency Mekanism was approached by now defunct music-sharing service Napster about creating an advertising campaign centered on its relaunch. The firm had yet to make an impact in the ad world — Napster was its first big client — so it wanted to try something bold. What they came up with was a series of ambitious, animated ads showing the Napster mascot escaping from jail, being revived in a hospital bed and preparing to rock out to hair metal. The ads were an overnight success, eventually watched more than 2 million times, making them one of the very first viral hits in the Internet’s social-media infancy — to some extent, admits Mekanism president Jason Harris, because there wasn’t a lot of interesting online content competing with it. Soon after, Microsoft came calling, hoping Mekanism could do the same for the software giant. “Microsoft said, ‘Well, aren’t you guys the viral guys? Can’t you just make it go viral? Just push a button and do whatever you do to make it happen,’” Harris says. The result: another highly successful campaign featuring a series of videos in which then up-and-coming comedian Demetri Martin searched for spiritual “clearification” — meant to portray Windows Vista’s ability to clear up a user’s desktop. (MORE: Why Beyoncé Will Make No Bills, Bills, Bills for Her Super Bowl Performance) Of course, Mekanism didn’t have a viral button — and still doesn’t. But the firm has perhaps gotten as close as any to being able to manufacture viral content on demand. The agency has created dozens of campaigns over the past decade, featuring a claymation Eminem drinking Brisk Iced Tea, a surprisingly hilarious Charles Schwab (yes, Charles Schwab) giving strange and financially misguided folks money advice, and a trailer for Rise of the Planet of the Apes with an all-too-realistic primate firing an AK-47. In fact, after years of trial and error, many advertising and marketing agencies<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=69262&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Buzzed-About Super Bowl Ads of 2013, A Sneak Preview</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sanburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget the days when you were totally surprised by the ads airing on Super Bowl Sunday. More than ever, companies are releasing ads weeks before the big game, often creating ad teasers (yes — that&#8217;s an ad for an ad) as part of a broader viral campaign. The reason? As TIME&#8217;s Brad Tuttle explained, releasing ads early can extend the lifespans of those staggeringly expensive Super Bowl ad spots, which this year are costing advertisers about $3.8 million per 30-second commercial. A number of ads are creating pre-game buzz and even mild controversy this year. Kate Upton is &#8220;washing cars&#8221; for Mercedes-Benz. Tracy Morgan is spewing profanity for water enhancer Mio Fit. Amy Poehler is trying to give a boost to ailing big-box retailer Best Buy. Even Psy is hawking Wonderful Pistachios. But collectively, automakers seem to be releasing the most interesting ad teasers so far, with Volkswagen, Toyota, and Hyundai all launching interest-piquing pre-game spots. To see those and more, check out this sneak preview of the year&#8217;s most buzzed-about Super Bowl ads.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=68939&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Hot&#8217; New Gadgets Anybody? No Thanks, We&#8217;re Good</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/01/11/hot-new-gadgets-anybody-no-thanks-were-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas promises to unveil all sorts of gadgets that&#8217;ll not only make our lives better—but that we simply won&#8217;t be able to live without. Instead, what we get is stuff like the $99 &#8220;smart&#8221; fork. Said utensil—the HAPIfork, also available in spoon format—is one of the most-discussed new products at this year&#8217;s show. As the Associated Press explained, the fork is equipped with a motion sensor and measures the frequency that the utensil is lifted from plate to mouth. If the user is shoveling in the food too rapidly, the fork vibrates and a light blinks as a warning to slow the munching down. Data collected by the utensils can also be uploaded to a smartphone or computer so that the user can track and analyze his eating habits. Yet, the AP noted some limitations: The fork has no clue about the nutritional content of your food or how big your forkfuls are. It can&#8217;t tell if you&#8217;re shoveling lard or stabbing peas individually. In which case, the utensils may actually steer users into getting as much food each time the fork is lifted to the mouth. Might as well make the most of it before that forks starts pulsating embarrassingly! (MORE: Diminishing Returns: The Cold Hard Truth for CES Smartphones) Like so much of today&#8217;s tech, this gadget purports to make consumers&#8216; lives easier. Does it even come close? In some cases, it&#8217;s just plain dumb to infuse &#8220;smart&#8221; technology into everyday products. One expert said as much to the Los Angeles Times in a story about the CES: The irony, though, is that as products become packed with more features and can connect to one another and to the Internet, they often become more confusing to consumers, said Scott Steinberg, an innovation consultant at TechSavvy and longtime CES attendee. &#8220;Just because we can add these features doesn&#8217;t mean we should, because many consumers are confused by the poor user experience provided,&#8221; he said. People are used to passively interacting with<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=66337&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Broadband Internet Access a Public Utility?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/01/09/is-broadband-internet-access-a-public-utility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should broadband Internet service be treated as a basic utility in the United States, like electricity, water, and traditional telephone service? That&#8217;s the question at the heart of an important and provocative new book by Susan Crawford, a tech policy expert and professor at Cardozo Law School. In Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly in the New Guilded Age, released Tuesday by Yale University Press, Crawford argues that the Internet has replaced traditional phone service as the most essential communications utility in the country, and is now as important as electricity was 100 years ago. &#8220;Truly high-speed wired Internet access is as basic to innovation, economic growth, social communication, and the country&#8217;s competitiveness as electricity was a century ago,&#8221; Crawford writes, &#8220;but a limited number of Americans have access to it, many can&#8217;t afford it, and the country has handed control of it over to Comcast and a few other companies.&#8221; Because the U.S. government has allowed a small group of giant, highly profitable companies to dominate the broadband market, Crawford argues, American consumers have fewer choices for broadband service, at higher prices but lower speeds, compared to dozens of other developed countries, including throughout Europe and Asia. &#8220;In Seoul, when you move into an apartment, you have a choice of three or four providers selling you symmetric fiber access for $30 per month, and installation happens in one day,&#8221; Crawford told TIME in an interview Tuesday. &#8220;That&#8217;s unthinkable in the United States. And the idea that the country that invented the Internet can&#8217;t get online is beyond my imagination.&#8221; Crawford, who has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale and Michigan, spent a year on the National Economic Council as a top telecommunications advisor to President Obama. In her book, she directs much of the blame for the sorry state of the U.S. broadband market at the federal government. &#8220;Instead of ensuring that everyone in America can compete in a global economy,&#8221; she writes, &#8220;instead of narrowing the divide between rich and poor, instead of supporting competitive free markets for American inventions that use information &#8212; instead, that is, of ensuring that America will<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=66067&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Brings Free Public WiFi to Its New York City Neighborhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tech giant Google announced Tuesday that it has begun offering free public WiFi internet access in the southwest Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, close to its mammoth headquarters. According to Google, the new service &#8212; which was the product of a public-private effort by the company, city officials, and a local nonprofit development ogranization &#8211; will provide free Internet access to hundreds of thousands of people each year, making it the largest such WiFi network in New York City. Google said that free WiFi is now available &#8212; today &#8212; outdoors, &#8220;roughly between Gansevoort St. and 19 St. from 8th Ave to the West Side Highway, as well as the neighborhood’s public spaces, including the Chelsea Triangle, 14th Street Park, and Gansevoort Plaza.&#8221; The WiFi network will not require a password. “Google is proud to provide free WiFi in the neighborhood we have called home for over six years,&#8221; Ben Fried, the company&#8217;s chief information officer, said in a statement. &#8220;This network will not only be a resource for the 2,000+ residents of the Fulton Houses, it will also serve the 5,000+ student population of Chelsea as well as the hundreds of workers, retail customers and tourists who visit our neighborhood every day.&#8221; (MORE: Is Broadband Internet Access a Public Utility like Electricity and Water?) New York officials praised Google&#8217;s move, calling it a another step toward the city&#8217;s ambitious goal of becoming one of the most important technology hubs in the world. “New York is determined to become the world’s leading digital city, and universal access to high-speed Internet is one of the core building blocks of that vision,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement. “Thanks to Google, free WiFi across this part of Chelsea takes us another step closer to that goal.” At a press conference, Bloomberg said that he&#8217;d ultimately like to see similar WiFi service throughout the city. Since moving into 111 Eighth Avenue, the former Port Authority building and one of the most important “telecom carrier hotels” on the East Coast, Google has been working with local<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=66241&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2013: Six Tech/Media Stories to Watch</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/01/02/tech-and-media-6-business-predictions-for-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2013, most tech consumers will be asking if it&#8217;s smart to buy a new computer, smartphone, or tablet device. As the structural shift from desktop to mobile computing races forward, hardware and software manufacturers are searching for an integrated solution. Apple and Google lead the pack on the software front &#8212; even as their surrogates engage in costly and time-consuming patent litigation around the world. Samsung (a key Google partner) is the global handset leader. Apple makes the best-designed consumer devices in the world. Here are six tech/media predictions for 2013. Google Will Settle Antitrust Probe With the Feds &#8212; It&#8217;s time for this nearly two-year investigation to end. As I wrote three months ago, the federal government’s probe of Internet search giant Google will most likely conclude with a settlement that averts a major lawsuit. The Federal Trade Commission has been exploring whether Google has used its search power &#8212; 70% market share &#8212; to harm rival companies unfairly. Google has offered a set of voluntary concessions addressing complaints about its search practices. But after European officials said that they were preparing even harsher sanctions for Google, the FTC punted the probe into this year (2013). If Google and the feds reach a deal, it would represent a huge victory for Google, and a major defeat for the companies that have accused it of acting unfairly. (MORE: Will Google Escape a Federal Antitrust Lawsuit Over Web Search?) Patent Progress Continues &#8211; Isn&#8217;t it just about time for the patent wars to end? Consumers want to see tech giants Apple, Google, and Samsung compete in the marketplace fair-and-square, not bicker in courtrooms around the world. The real winners of the patent wars are the $1,000-per-hour lawyers who represent these global behemoths around the world. For the first time, Apple and Google spent more last year on intellectual property than research and development. That&#8217;s not a good sign. Apple’s $1 billion victory over Google&#8217;s key Android partner Samsung in August was the most decisive victory in Apple’s patent proxy war against Google. Is patent peace possible? It’s worth noting that neither Apple CEO Tim Cook nor Google CEO<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=65452&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Top 5 Tech Biz Stories of 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time ever, smartphones outnumber basic mobile phones. Apple&#8216;s iPhone and Google&#8217;s Android devices &#8212; which are more powerful than the top consumer PCs of just a decade ago &#8212; are changing our habits. Consumers are using smartphones to compare prices at brick-and-mortar retailers. Innovative startups are using these devices to make entrenched markets more efficient. And the &#8220;social networking&#8221; phenomenon continues forward, as people everywhere join Facebook and Twitter to connect and share content with friends, relatives, and strangers. In 2012, tech titans Apple and Google solidified their market power, even as questions percolated about how each company plans to remain on top of its respective market. (Google is currently staring down the barrel of a major federal antitrust investigation.) Meanwhile, relative upstarts Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon tested the public stock market and each encountered a harsh response from investors. Far from an apocalypse, 2012 was a year of ascension, as Apple CEO Tim Cook asserted his leadership following the passing of his mentor Steve Jobs, and Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo, in an appointment that highlighted the lack of female CEOs at America&#8217;s most high-profile companies. (MORE: Lessons from Facebook’s Instagram Photo Flap) Apple vs. Google Tech War &#8211; In 2012, it become clear that the most high-profile battle in technology is between Apple and Google, two tech juggernauts that bring radically different visions to the marketplace. As the locus of computing shifts from the desktop to the mobile device, Apple&#8217;s iPhone and Google&#8217;s Android have emerged as dominant platforms. This fight is bigger than just a commercial clash between two tech titans. It’s a war between two fundamentally different visions of technology, described in simplistic terms as closed vs. open. Apple’s model is end-to-end control over the iPhone process, from hardware to software, while Google’s strategy has been to distribute the Android system for free in order to leverage innovation from hardware makers and the software developer community. Each company has been wildly successful: Apple generates over $10 billion in profit annually on iPhone sales, while Google&#8217;s Android is now the top mobile operating system on the planet. Given the intensity<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=65235&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell, Loud and Annoying TV Ads: The CALM Act Becomes the Law of the Land</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/12/13/farewell-loud-and-annoying-tv-ads-the-calm-act-becomes-the-law-of-the-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sanburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought Congress was utterly useless, here comes one of the great bipartisan legislative victories of our time: They turned down the volume on commercials. Since the 1960s, the Federal Communications Commission has been hearing complaints from television viewers that ads are too loud – way too loud. And the only way to fix this aural injustice, apparently, was an act of Congress. And why not? They don&#8217;t seem to be doing much else. (MORE: Why Yesterday&#8217;s Fed Announcement is a Big Deal) While Madison Avenue may not admit it, it&#8217;s clear that many advertising professionals decided that if television ad spots were simply louder than the television shows they surrounded, we just might brush the potato chips off our shirt and pay attention. So for years advertisers took advantage of older sound metering equipment used by broadcast stations to crank ads up to 11. (Wired has a great graph comparing the volume of commercials to television programming, which is almost always well below the sound threshold unless there&#8217;s something like an explosion or gun shots appearing on-screen.) “The people who were creating the commercials learned how to exploit the meters and fly below the radar,” Thomas Lund, a development manager of Denmark’s TC Electronics, told The Los Angeles Times. But one congresswoman had enough. Representative Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) introduced the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (CALM), which passed both the House and the Senate &#8211; where the vote was unanimous &#8212; in 2010. President Obama signed it on December 15, 2010. (MORE: The Baby Boom and Financial Doom) The law, which goes into effect today, requires TV ads to be no louder than the programs that accompany them. The reason it’s taken two years to implement is largely technical: Broadcast stations and cable operators needed to upgrade their equipment to allow them to modify volume on the fly. Surprisingly, advertisers didn’t put up much of a fight over the legislation, likely realizing how annoying their ads had become to basically everybody who owns a television. It’s not clear whether turning<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=64147&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube to Boob Tube: Dane Boedigheimer&#8217;s Annoying Orange TV Show Has Kids Hooked</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/12/03/youtube-to-boob-tube-dane-boedigheimers-annoying-orange-tv-show-has-kids-hooked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita Hamilton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, an unknown filmmaker posted a minute-and-a-half long video of a weird-looking orange badgering an innocent apple on the other side of the kitchen counter. While the orange was realistic in shape and size, it had the mouth and eyes of a human and spoke in the squeaky voice of an 8-year-old boy. Same with the ill-fated apple, which gets massacred by a large kitchen knife in a surprisingly brutal denouement. The clip was an epic hit. Within three weeks it had been watched more than a million times. In six months, it had more than 50 million views, and its creator—Minnesota-born Dane Boedigheimer—had become a YouTube superstar, thanks to the dozens more Annoying Orange videos that he and his writing partner Spencer Grove had uploaded in the interim. By January 2012, their wacky talking fruit videos had more than a billion views and were raking in nearly $865,000 in annual ad revenue, according to the web ad-buying platform TubeMogul. Now Boedigheimer, 34, has made the unusual move of turning a web-originated series into a top-ten TV show for boys. In The High-Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, which debuted on the Cartoon Network in June, Orange and his oddball gang of edible friends (including Pear, Passion Fruit, Grapefruit and Marshmallow) move out of the kitchen and onto a fruit cart, where more elaborate escapades ensue. An Annoying Orange Christmas album just dropped on iTunes, and the TV Christmas special—a spoof of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol—airs tonight, December 3. It&#8217;s a whirlwind success story by any measure, but especially for a guy who came out of nowhere and got millions of kids to tune in to his fantastical, fruit-filled world. (MORE: 9 Dream Jobs That Actually Pay) Eight years ago, Boedigheimer was just another nobody in the City of Angels. The son of a roofer, he spent his first year after college at Moorhead State University in Minnesota working at a one-hour photo lab while trying to break into the film scene in Minneapolis. “I only got in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=62163&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Kevin Clash Scandal Hurt the Sesame Street Franchise?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/11/23/will-the-kevin-clash-scandal-hurt-the-sesame-street-franchise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sanburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The resignation of Kevin Clash – the voice of “Sesame Street’s” Elmo – following allegations of sexual relations with at least two underage boys may have short-term repercussions for the  PBS kids&#8217; show. But in the long run, &#8220;Sesame Street&#8217;s&#8221; brand is likely to survive intact. Few brands can match the reach of a show like &#8220;Sesame Street.&#8221; Three generations of Americans have grown up with the kids&#8217; show, and the series and its characters – from Big Bird to Cookie Monster to Oscar the Grouch – are beloved throughout the country. (MORE: Black Friday: Fast and Frenzied) “There are very few brands that are ‘motherhood brands,’” says branding expert Rob Frankel, describing a type of brand that “can’t be attacked because it’s 100% goodness. … They essentially can do no wrong. You saw this in the election.” Frankel&#8217;s referring to former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s pledge to pull funding for PBS and essentially place Big Bird into retirement. The Obama administration used Romney&#8217;s Big Bird comments against him in a series of relentless TV spots. “It’s like a gun blowing up in your face,” he says. “The guy casting the aspersion gets hurt, not the brand.” That’s why Frankel believes that &#8220;Sesame Street&#8221; will not only survive the Kevin Clash episode relatively unscathed. It could actually see a favorable bump in its ratings and merchandise sales. Elmo has been &#8220;Sesame Street’s&#8221; most popular resident since 1996 when Tyco introduced the wildly popular Tickle Me Elmo doll. Parents went crazy for the toy during the holiday shopping season, some paying upwards of $1,500. Today, Hasbro – the sole &#8220;Sesame Street&#8221; toy maker – brings in an estimated $150 million in annual retail sales just from Sesame Street toys, according to Gerrick Johnson, a toy analyst for BMO Capital Markets. And Elmo toys alone account for 50% to 75% of those items. “Elmo is hands-down the most important character from a toy licensing perspective,” says Johnson. The Clash incident may persuade some parents to avoid getting their kids an Elmo<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=61908&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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