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The new ABC show Daybreak is getting the ax. The terrific, 24-like show is a tough one to join mid-season, so ratings slipped and ABC did what networks do. My fiancée is a huge fan of the show, and fortunately the remaining episodes will be streamed online — a programming move that’s quickly becoming the standard. (Thanks for the tip, Jim!)
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A new report by Borrell Research finds that online recruitment now accounts for 25 percent of all internet advertising, and larger job sites “are being chewed apart” by niche sites. “Before someone goes to a large aggregator, if you’re a professional, you’re going to look at your trade job board first,” said Borrell Associates VP Pete Conti. The same goes for local boards that drill down deeper. While Borrell predicts large metro daily papers will lose 20 percent in annual job ad revenue by 2011, the firm believes suburban and community papers will gain 25 percent by that time. And overall, Borrell predicts recruitment will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 10.3 percent over the next five years, approaching $10 billion by 2011.
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Ok, this is an ego post, but I can’t resist. In what’s believed to be an industry first, KING-TV and its sister station KONG-TV finished #1 and #2 respectively in Seattle’s late news race in November sweeps. KING’s newscast airs at 11 p.m. and KONG at 10 p.m. What’s fascinating here is the fact the newscasts have the same main anchors, same reporters and nearly all of the same stories. I was executive producer of the two newscasts from 2002-2005, and the idea wasn’t to get people to watch both newscasts (why would you?) but to provide a choice of convenience. Initially, we were afraid the 10 p.m. would cannibalize the 11 p.m., but we realized we’d rather cannibalize ourselves than give away viewers to the 10 p.m. competition. In the end, the newscasts reinforced each other and allowed us to cover the night more aggressively. The lesson here: choice trumps cannibalism. (Full disclosure: I work for KING-TV and KONG-TV.)
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Revver, a video-sharing site that gives contributors a cut of ad revenue, has made a major change in its leadership. Co-founders Ian Clarke and Oliver Luckett are leaving, as three new execs join the company. Steven Starr, the other co-founder, will stay on as CEO. AdAge suggests the changes may have been pushed by VCs who want their managers in place to advance a company’s fortunes. The changes also suggest that Revver is not living up to its hopes of being a successful business based on sharing ad-revenue with content contributors. The contributors are also having a hard time cashing in, according to AdAge. I come back to my Aggregation Postulate: In the aggregation game, the only winners are the aggregators. In this case, there may be no winners, at least not so far. (Via PaidContent)
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CBS Interactive has named former Yahoo exec Michael Marquez as VP of strategy and corporate development. He most recently served as director of corporate development at Yahoo, where he oversaw the acquisition of 15 companies, including Oddpost, Verdisoft, del.icio.us, Bix and Jumpcut. “Mike has had a front row seat to most of the M&A and investment activity in Silicon Valley in the past couple of years,” said CBS Interactive head Quincy Smith. “His relationships with the venture capital and entrepreneurial community will be invaluable as we continue to shape CBS’s Interactive strategy.”
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In a first for NBC’s Saturday Night Live, clips from the show are now available on a mobile platform, through a partnership with Cingular Wireless. Details…
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A stunning upset. A Cinderella story. An underdog… you get the idea. Google Zeitgeist has its top searches of 2006. The number one search on Google this past year? Bebo. The social networking site outsearched the number two term, MySpace. As for the number one Google News search term? As you would have guessed: Paris Hilton. (Clever headline from Australia’s Courrer-Mail: Hilton Most Hit Upon.) Orlando Bloom is #2 and you have to go down to #5, Hurricane Katrina, before you find a hard news story.
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Good scoop at B&C: The networks were considering joining together and coming up with their own answer to YouTube. It was going to feature content from NBC Universal, News Corp., CBS, and Viacom, as well as user-generated stuff. But try getting corporations to agree. Broadcasting and Cable reports that Viacom is walking away from the plan. And that could end this enterprise before it even begins. I spoke with Variety’s Scott Kirsner about the plan earlier today, before this development. (Good timing on that story.) Networks getting together to start an online concern? Way too difficult. Rupert and Sumner are not going to get on the same page, which is a shame since the nets have such a deep catalogue of content we’d all love to see if it were online. Again I wonder: When will traditional media actually pioneer a great new form of technology instead of bickering over it?
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Jeff Jarvis has put together a video documenting his experiences with professional crews who shot interviews with him. His point? How many people it takes to do a network shoot vs. how he produces video by himself.
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I’m surprised - I would have guessed this had already happened. A Nielsen Media Research survey says there are finally more homes with DVD players than with VCRs. 81% of homes have DVD players, compared with 79% of homes with a VCR. Also of note: about 27% of homes have an MP3 player.
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