The MobilizedTV archive

What MobilizedTV covered historically

The original publication ran from 2007–2011, with its own editor and a group of named contributors from the broadcast and production industries. It covered mobile television, mobile video, broadcast technology, the devices of the period and the business around them, and it was cited by the technology press, trade publications, reference works and at least one academic paper.

It stopped publishing in 2011. The domain later passed through hosting placeholders, domain resale and, between 2024 and 2026, use by parties with no connection to television at all. None of that period produced anything this site has any reason to preserve.

Important historical themes

Mobile DTV and broadcast standards

The publication's strongest beat: ATSC-M/H, the receivers built for it, the services that launched and the spectrum politics around them. That subject did not disappear — it became ATSC 3.0.

Mobile video and distribution

How video actually reached phones before app stores settled the question: carrier channels, managed decks, partnerships between video producers and platform operators.

Devices and handsets as screens

Coverage of the hardware people watched on, at the point when a phone becoming a screen was still a new claim rather than an assumption.

Tablets and publishing apps

The first wave of publisher apps on tablets, and the economics behind an industry deciding that an app was a distribution strategy.

The business of mobile media

Advertising, monetisation, events and the trade conversation around whether mobile video would pay for itself.

How preserved addresses work

A small number of the original addresses are still linked from outside sources — encyclopaedia citations, a technology news article, an academic reference. Those links still send readers here. Letting them break would serve nobody, so those exact addresses are kept working.

At each one we publish something newly written on the same subject, with a notice at the top of the page saying what the address used to be, that the original is not reproduced, and that we did not write it. Everything else from the original site is allowed to end: no address is redirected somewhere unrelated in order to collect its links, and addresses created during the years when this domain was used for other purposes are treated as permanently gone.

The full reasoning for every address is recorded in the project’s historical URL register, and summarised in the historical-content section of the editorial policy.