TVShift

Public-Access TV Fights for Relevance in the YouTube Age

by Mike Rosen-Molina

Public-access television is a sometimes bizarre world where anyone with the time and inclination can appear on television. It's where you find the rants of Colombus, Ohio, goth Damon Zex and the strange instructional videos of Let's Paint TV, where Los Angeles host John Kilduff taught viewers how to paint and make blended drinks all while exercising on a treadmill....

• December 17, 2008
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Your Take Roundup

What to Watch on the Small Screen? It's Situational

by Mark Glaser

I was sitting on a panel recently in Pasadena for the TV critics press tour, and someone in the audience asked about what people would really watch on the small screen of a cell phone or video iPod. I mentioned what Chris McQueen said on this very weblog, that if you're in a line somewhere, you'll watch anything. That...

• January 26, 2006
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