Channel.TV / Journal

Field notes on television, the word.

Three working essays on the medium, the language, and the market — assembled to make a written case for Channel.TV without overstating one. All cited research is linked inline.

Read the case for the channel as the unit of the connected-TV economy, the commercial history of why .TV still signals video, and our practitioner's note on valuation frameworks for one-word category-defining domains.

  1. Industry Reading 9 min · Published 2026

    The channel as the unit of the connected-TV economy

    How a 1928 broadcasting term became the atomic unit of streaming inventory — and why platform interfaces, ad pricing, and creator branding all still revolve around it.

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  2. Domain History Reading 7 min · Published 2026

    Why .TV — the extension — still signals video

    A short history of the country-code that became a category. From Tuvalu's 2000 commercialization deal to Twitch's $970M exit, the extension carries a meaning the .com space cannot.

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  3. Valuation Reading 11 min · Published 2026

    Valuation frameworks for one-word category-defining domains

    A practitioner's guide: comparable sales, brand-displacement cost, search-CPC anchoring, and the scarcity premium that resists ordinary regression.

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