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CBS has invested an undisclosed amount in TicketReserve, a discount ticketing service that allows fans to buy in early in the season and trade options on the tickets as the value rises and falls. Press release follows below…
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CBS is ordering seven new episodes of Jericho after a massive backlash from the show’s fans. “Wow!” said Nina Tassler, the president of CBS Entertainment in a message board post to Jericho fans. “Over the past few weeks you have put forth an impressive and probably unprecedented display of passion in support of a prime time television series. You got our attention; your emails and collective voice have been heard.” So CBS is ordering seven more episodes for mid-season of next year. “However, in the interim, we are working on several initiatives to help introduce the show to new audiences,” writes Tassler, which includes rebroadcasting the show this summer.
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Lin Television’s 29 websites are rolling out user-generated videos, photos, audio, blogs, ratings, polls, and other community-driven content powered by VMIX. “This is a significant milestone for our company and further advances our strategic vision of leading the industry in the convergence of local broadcast television and digital innovations,” said Vincent Sadusky, president and chief executive officer of LIN TV. Press release below…
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Hearst-Argyle’s WXII12.com is the first Internet Broadcasting site to debut comments, ratings, recommendations, user blogs and profiles powered by Pluck’s SiteLife Social Media Suite. Other sites will launch the technology soon. “Content becomes more relevant when the audience has a voice in creating it,” said IB EVP Clayton Rose. “Pluck’s SiteLife will go a long way in allowing visitors to share and discuss local news and topics that matter–in a way that complements a TV station’s news coverage.” Press release…
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(Bias: I’m a huge fan of Brittney Gilbert.) As near as we can tell, Brittney Gilbert was the first local blogger hired by a television station to do what she does best - blog. Brittney took the sensibility she established in Nashville at her blog, Sparkwood & 21, and brought it to WKRN’s Nashville is Talking. But the anonymous haters simply became too much, and Brittney has resigned:
I do not want to be seen as a victim here, I only want to honestly tell you why I will no longer be authoring NIT. Your host is simply not cut from strong enough cloth. This is the internet. People are vicious. They are even more vicious when they fail to make any distinction between you and a feelingless, faceless media company. It’s easier to justify the venom that way. And while some people may get off on feeding those frenzies of hate, I do not. I tried to not let it affect me but it does. Every day. The tears and the stress are just not worth it.
Now, I realize the commenters here will inevitably write something like “Boo hoo, if you can’t take the heat, get out of the blogosphere.” All I ask is that you read Brittney’s entry, where she highlights just some of the things the anonymous trolls have written about her in the last 24 hours alone, and see if you don’t at least sympathize with her. (UPDATE: Then read the hateful comments that continue to pile on. Amazing.) Some times you can’t win. It can get to be too much. There are people who will assail mainstream media, even if a local news outlet tries to reach out in an earnest effort at transparency. The web brings out the best and the worst in people. Brittney was brave to be the first at trying to help a TV station reach out to the community. It’s sad her hard work was shouted down so loudly by a small-but-vocal bunch of jerks.
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“iPredict allows you to make predictions around news events,” explains MSNBC.com’s Rex Sorgatz. “The application visualizes the public’s votes against your vote, storing your previous predictions with a cookie. When you return to the prediction later, you can change your vote. You see how your vote has changed over time, graphed out in comparison to everyone else’s prediction.” Here’s how I voted on this question (the green box), compared to the public’s average (the red line):
Rex goes on to explain, “Although we tend to think of news stories as ways to inform us of the past, I contend that every news story has an interrogative kernel hidden inside — a question about the future. Twelve people killed in Iraq? That story makes me wonder about the future of the war. LeBron James scores 25 straight points? That story makes me wonder if he really will be the next Jordan. Although news is immediately a historical account, it is also implicitly a gamble on the future, a suggestion of where things will be.”
As new stories about the topic occur, they’ll be mapped (and linked) on the same graph so you can see how new developments change the vote. Pretty cool, eh?
ABC station KGO has been experimenting with “ABC 7 Futures Market,” a similar yet simplier approach to mapping predictions on stories. It’s powered by Inkling Markets.
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So Howard Kurtz went fishing for Facebook friends in his Media Notes column in the Washington Post. Then he chatted about it. As an active member of the mediablogojournoschoolosphere (great word, Ryan), of course I am a Facebookie, and I was touched by his plea, so I shot Howie an add friend invite and waited…. and waited… and waited… and am still waiting. Howard is adding friends right and left, which you can see from his profile if you are in one of his Facebook networks, so maybe it is just me? Sure, many of my friends say I’m like black licorice (not everyone likes black licorice, but the people who do really like it), but c’mon Howie… how about a little blogolove for a lostremoter? Kurtz has friended your friend and mine Jeff Jarvis, who is a frequent guest on CNN’s Reliable Sources and one of the few pundits who get airtime to talk about online issues on his show. Have any other media bloggers reached out to Howie, or is the door not really open to our ilk?
Update: At 1:24 EST, Howard and I became friends! I encourage all of our media blogger buddies out there to get friendly with each other and Howard, too!
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That’s how the Washington Post describes the strategy by the Wall Street Journal employees’ union to find a new bidder — any new bidder — for Dow Jones. The union has written letters to Warren Buffett and Ronald Burke, among others, hoping to entice them to bid for the company that’s currently in discussions with Rupert Murdoch.
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Beginning today, eBay is offering ad buyers the ability to bid for radio advertising time on most of the nation’s radio stations through an alliance with Bid4Spot.com. But eBay’s efforts on the TV side have been less successful — only Oxygen has signed up for the ad auction system, while the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau and the network remain opposed to eBay’s system.
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