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Just in time for the final stretch of the political season, MSNBC has released a new widget (pictured) that updates with the site’s latest political news. MSNBC.com has also added a “discuss” feature to its political page - message boards on political discussions that are generating thousands of posts. The forums are part of a deal with HotSoup, a politics community site.
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Stephen Warley and I are in San Jose this week for Streaming Media West. Our presentation is on Wednesday, and starting Tuesday we will be liveblogging some of the discussions. Come find us if you’re at the convention.
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Brightcove is taking the wraps off new services to help video content producers cash in on their work. Producers can opt to have their video syndicated with advertising in exchange for giving Brightcove a 50 percent cut. Or they can sell video downloads, and Brightcove takes 30 percent. Along with it, Brightcove is relaunching its website from a B2B storefront to a consumer site highlighting popular video clips (see home page below). And through its partnership with AOL, producers can sell video downloads on AOL Video. “As the mainstream consumer moves into watching video on the Internet it will evolve from short humorous clips into programming that’s meaningful to a broad cross-section of mainstream individuals, Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire said.
Press release with much more info below…
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BBC News staffers say a plan to post ads on their site would lead to less serious journalism. “There has to be a chance that advertisers wouldn’t care about us doing stories on poverty and African politics, they’d want us to do more stories on Madonna and Kylie,” one website employee said.
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You would think that with all the technological changes and cost pressures in network television today that programming costs would be kept under control. But actually, programming costs across the four networks are up 9 percent this year while advertising sales are mostly flat year-over-year. So what gives? “I think it is some indication of either myopia, naivete or just plain brain damage on the part of the industry,” says News Corp. chief operating officer Peter Chernin. “Things are interconnected in this world, and I think the significant issue is that the fundamental economics of the television business are under a real challenge right now.” To say the least. And what’s all this investment yielding? With the most expensive programming in history on the air, the networks are seeing very mediocre success at best.
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One of the perks of running Lost Remote is plugging job openings for my real job. I have an opening for an internet content producer at KING5.com and NWCN.com, two newsrooms that have made the web a priority. We’re an innovative, aggressive interactive staff in a tech-savvy market. And KING 5 won the Edward R. Murrow Award for overall excellence this year. So if you’re a talented web producer looking for a quality media company that gets the web, send us your resume. More details here in the job posting.
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