The Big Bad Business of Television
I just loved the following taken from a "trade report": NBC replaced scripted series with talk show host Jay Leno in its Monday to Friday 10 p.m. tim...
I just loved the following taken from a "trade report": NBC replaced scripted series with talk show host Jay Leno in its Monday to Friday 10 p.m. tim...
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media
If I were to walk the mile from where I live to the studio and take the reins, I would at least threaten to cut out the tongue of any TV host who dares interrupt anyone else.
Wired | Posted 09.16.2008 | Business
Cable looks like a decent place to park your money in the event of a catastrophic market meltdown. The logic is this: People like TV. They don't want ...
Rusty Russell | Posted 09.11.2008 | Home
Cable TV fails to do its job: report on and analyze the candidates' policies. It's like they think we only care about lipstick. Viewers are left completely unaware of dozens of serious issues that dramatically impact enormous swaths of the population.
New York Post | Michael Starr | Posted 09.03.2008 | Media
I don't know what they're doing over there at TNT - but they're definitely doing something right. Monday's premiere of TNT's new legal drama, "Raisin...
Hollywood Reporter | Kimberly Nordyke | Posted 08.21.2008 | Media
It's been another good summer for cable. Summer 2008 may not have generated as many ratings headlines for cable as last year, when Disney Channel's "...
Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 08.12.2008 | Media
The ad recession that's devastated newspapers and now, local tv, has yet to hit cable TV. But that's about to change, according to research firm SNL K...
AP, Epicenter | Posted 08.08.2008 | Business
This week has been a week of confirming what analysts had expected about Rupert Murdoch: he's making money -- but not really on TV. Chairman and Chie...
New York Times | MATT RICHTEL | Posted 05.24.2008 | Business
Americans discouraged by higher gas prices and airline fares may decide to spend more vacation time at home, perhaps watching television. But that, t...
Eric Deggans | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
The continuing battle over issues like the words of Rev. Jeremiah Wright suggests to me that our soundbite-focused media culture isn't well suited to the serious, complex debate we need to have on race in America.
Tom Alderman | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media
The media gods were certainly smiling on all newsies when the NY Governor stepped up to the microphones this week -- then stepped down from office.
If you think people laugh at your skiing skills then think again. A man was a...
The Anchorage Daily News reports that Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin's...
Rep. John Conyers has written a letter to Democratic colleagues urging them to join...
As January 20 grows larger in the window, I've been thinking more often about the...
I want to play poker with Harry Reid. Really I do. Rather than call for a...
America is in shock. It is not because of the unusual sight of the first black...
Are nude animal rights protests old hat? We got word of a...
Rachel Maddow appeared on "The Daily...
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Patrick Swayze, who has been battling pancreatic cancer for a year, sat down with Barbara Walters for...
An article in next month's Atlantic asks, "Is porn...
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The Internet is awash with rumors over the cause of the tragic death of actor John Travolta's...
Norman Horowitz | Posted 12.12.2008 | Media