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For the last three years, Interpublic Media has been putting out “PropheSee reports” that measure the internet buzz for new fall TV shows before they premiere. This year the top five are: Heroes (NBC), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (NBC), Vanished (Fox), 30 Rock (NBC) and Friday Night Lights (NBC). That’s right, NBC has four of the top five.
3 comments August 17th, 2006
Ah, yes, my obsession with YouTube continues. The site was down overnight with the home page message, “We are releasing a couple of new things and doing some maintenance.” Then underneath, was this large picture…
Say… is that a bottle of Grey Goose vodka on the table? Why, yes it is.
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At last! Politicians who actually embrace their supporters who make unauthorized web pages showing support. Even some office seekers who don’t know the first thing about making a MySpace page know a good base when they see one. USA Today has an article about pols who are embracing young supporters who go online to make pages dedicated to their campaigns - instead of making the kids take the pages down.
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I wholeheartedly agree with ABC News correspondent Jake Tapper’s blog post today that reminds us how the Ramsey family was basically convicted in the media in the months after JonBenet’s murder. Sure, detectives and prosecutors were planting a lot of seeds, but the media didn’t think twice about running with them. “I hope the media and authorities are looking long and hard at their own shameful behavior in this whole affair,” Tapper writes. Probably not, unfortunately. (Via TVNewser)
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The Hungarian Government has a website (English directions) where people can vote on the name they’d like for a new bridge in Budapest. True to the web, the leading candidates are a little less than serious. Chuck Norris was in the lead (imagine the headline when they need to close the bridge: DON’T CROSS CHUCK) and then Stephen Colbert found out, and implored his audience to vote for him. After WikiGate, you know the Colbert Crowd has the power. At last check, the Hungarian Bridge vote site was down because of too much traffic. And if you can’t find something funny about a site dedicated to a bridge being closed because of traffic, I can’t help you.
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The analyst group Outsell predicts that newspaper circulation will plummet nearly 20 percent by 2010 compared to 2004 levels, and newspapers will face a massive $20 billion shortfall that current online efforts will not erase. “The estimated shortfall is even larger than newspaper executives have acknowledged,” said Outsell lead analyst Ken Doctor. The report urges newspapers to aggressively pursue new top-line revenue growth that goes beyond their “core” online efforts. (Via BuzzMachine)
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News.com has a terrific series of stories on how companies like Revver, Guba, YouTube and BitTorrent are seeing dollar signs in sharing content. And it’s not their content.
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Not tubes, folks. Pipes. As in CNN Pipeline, which is powering the live online-only TNT coverage of the PGA Championship on PGA.com. A simple registration gets you in, and then you can watch live uninterrupted coverage (even with play-by-play announcers) on pipe 1, the “player cam” (player perspective) on pipe 2, “inside the ropes” (profile pieces) on pipe 3 and “analysis and tips” on pipe 4. Well done.
6 comments August 17th, 2006
Teens and young adults polled the by Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg said they consider local TV the “best” source of news. Believe it or not, the internet is way down the list behind friends and family, school, network TV news and even MTV. “We kind of expected the internet to show up higher,” says Jill Darling Richardson, deputy director of Los Angeles Times polls. Of course, newspapers aren’t in the mix at all. And the strong showing by friends and family underlines the simple point that social news (social networking + news) is tremendously important. (Thanks, Laura!)
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In a first for a network, CBS announced today it plans to stream the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric live on CBSNews.com beginning on September 5th. “This is a groundbreaking development in making the program available to the largest possible audience,” said Sean McManus, President, CBS News and Sports. Users will be required to register to ensure they view it live at the same time Evening News airs in their time zone. The newscast will also be made available on demand after the simulcast. Both will be free and ad-supported. Also, the network announced a bevy of new online elements for Evening News: “Couric & Company” is a daily blog; “Eye to Eye” is a daily video of extended newsmaker interviews; “First Look with Katie Couric” is a web-exclusive rundown of stories being considered for the broadcast; and “Katie Couric’s Notebook” is a podcast of a one-minute look at a top story or issue. You knew CBS News would come out swinging online with Couric’s debut, but the announcement to stream the newscast live is surprising. It follows word earlier this week that CBS.com will stream primetime shows online for free. CBS has a deal in place with its affiliates to share digital revenue on projects like these — although it’s unclear how much. But still, it will be interesting to gauge reaction from affiliate newsrooms. Anyone?
36 comments August 17th, 2006
Yeah, it has its haters. Yes, since NECN.com switched to Flash we’ve heard from the cognoscenti that Flash is a processor hog and it’s just waiting for a worm to bring it down. But it’s getting us better numbers than we ever saw with WindowsMedia or Real. Adobe’s latest stats (and yes, they’re from Adobe) show the high penetration of the Flash player. As a Mac user, I can tell you it’s a welcome change. WindowsMedia is in the 95% penetration range, but it comes pre-loaded on Windows computers and plays terribly with other platforms. (Yes, I know there are some downloads that help - but most people don’t know.) That people are choosing Flash in these numbers is fascinating. (Via Digg)
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EchoStar and DirectTV were interested in that FCC auction of airwaves that would have allowed them to get into the wireless broadband business. But they have dropped their joint bid effort, probably because the bidding got too high. After 20 rounds of bids, T-Mobile is the top bidder at $3 billion. When an offering gets too rich for the likes of satellite TV (combined with their partner Liberty Media), you have to think there may be bubble-like over-enthusiasm at play. (NYT free sub. req.)
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From my neck of the (Crumbling Big Dig) woods - the people at Cambridge Community Television have put together a 15 minute documentary called “Citizen Journalism - From Pamphlet to Blog.” It’s online at their site, and they developed the video as part of a three-month class. Check it out and tell us what you think. (Via New Media Musings)
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Techcrunch profiles a bunch of media 2.0 companies (most of which I’ve never heard of) who were pitching their concepts to heavyweights at the Digital Hollywood conference. For example, Magnify is a “human powered review system for user generated video.” And RallyPoint overlays interactive applets over TV broadcasts. Interesting stuff.
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This week Google kicked off a new service that gives local merchants the ability to offer printable coupons integrated into Google Maps. The service is free, but Google’s hope is the merchants will buy ads in AdWords that drive traffic to their free coupon pages. “At that point, the advertiser doesn’t need a website,” said Gokul Rajaram, product management director at Google. Sounds like a powerful idea. Terry Heaton points out that company’s real aim is “to pull money from local advertisers into the Google coffers, and this is another slap in the face of local media companies and local ad agencies.” Yep, absolutely.
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