April 18, 2024
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Okay, I’ve pulled myself away from the larger American drama of Barack and Hillary, and her coming "Alamo Firewall." Which brings me to another reality show. Maybe we could call it "Rupert and Jerry’s Our Space." (You know "Our Space is a very, very, very ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Only the timing was surprising. As Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang left a board meeting last Thursday, he was told that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was on the line (the phone line, not the internet) with a buyout offer. Microsoft and Yahoo! had held talks on and off for a while on a ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Broadcast website host Broadcast Interactive Media (BIM) has stormed into the era of user-generated content with its new YouNewsTV product, first launched at Buffalo station WKBW in May 2007. The product now powers more than 50 local station user-gen applications. Timur ...
Read MoreImportant Details: It’s an audacious goal: cover politics from neighborhood battles to statehouse conflicts in each and every state of the union. That’s the recently announced plan for Politicker. Politicker is a business line of Observer Media Group, best known as publisher of the ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Yahoo! News and the CNN Digital Network are dueling it out to be the top news site in the US. CNN has moved in front recently, partly due to its local affiliate, the Internet Broadcasting network of sites (see Insights 21 June 2007, Change in Internet Broadcasting Leadership ...
Read MoreImportant Details: December 2007 saw a flurry of activity in US media. Sam Zell engineered a privatization of the Tribune Company, Rupert Murdoch closed his purchase of Dow Jones and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began to change the local print/broadcast ownership landscape in ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Three recent reports show the drama and depth of news reading change. According to the UK National Readership Survey, commissioned by the House of Lords, the number of UK adults reading at least one national daily newspaper has dropped by five million in the last 15 ...
Read MoreINSIGHTS WILL BE BACK ON 2 JANUARY 2008. A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR READERS Important Details: Back in the spring, the Tribune Company, responding to shareholder pressure, acceded to a complex, $8.2 billion going-private process. Buyout artist Sam Zell, who’s ...
Read MoreImportant Details: With the formality of Dow Jones shareholder approval of the company’s sale to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, the new intrigue begins. Midyear, the publishing world was fixed on the will they/won’t they question of whether the controlling Bancroft family would ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Washington Post Chairman Donald Graham said the obvious, but sometimes the obvious marks an unacknowledged turning point. At a UBS Global Media Conference ( or “Media Week” as it is popularly known), Graham told Wall Street media analysts that the company would ...
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