NBC inked a series of deals to make its fall pilots available for free on a bunch of VOD systems: Comcast, Time Warner, Charter, Cox - and versions on Dish and DirecTV. CBS, CW and Fox aren’t planning to follow suit, but in past years have put the product online. We’re getting millions and millions of dollars worth of advertising impressions,” NBC’s Henry Ahn told Variety. While four of the five major English-language networks are getting the pilots out ahead of time - either on-air or online… one isn’t: ABC. The network has kept a “tight lid” on its pilots, outside of a few public screenings.
August 18th, 2007
After this week’s Seattle Times incident, does it come as a shock that a majority of Americans think news organizations are biased? Pew asked 1,503 adults a variety of questions - and the results should give us collective pause. 53% overall think news organizations are biased; 68% of Internet users think orgs. are biased; 43% say the media is too critical of the country; 39% think facts are a problem; 53% say stories are “often inaccurate;” only 35% think journos care about the people they report on. Ouch.
52% of those surveyed think the media has a liberal tilt - including 75% of Republicans and 37% of democrats.
Good news? A little: 78% have a favorable impression of TV news - the same figure for newspapers - but both of those figures are on the decline since Pew began the polls in 1985. Tons more data here
August 18th, 2007
