Archive for April 7th, 2008
If the news flash on Drudge Report is right, there could be a major story coming about CBS News contracting out reporting to CNN. This comes following major budget cuts at CBS and their O&O stations.
UPDATE: Drudge is now linking to an article from the NY Times that says the focus of the talks is on newsgathering, but personalities would still be from CBS News. This is a very interesting twist in a series of cost-cutting to keep the news business afloat.
UPDATE: CBS denies the report, on cbsnews.com.
April 7th, 2008
The Seattle Times announced today it plans to cut 200 jobs out of a staff of 1,845. As you might expect, advertising revenue has dropped significantly over the years. But online advertising revenue also dropped, 6.5 percent over the last year. Online advertising dropping? Sounds inconceivable, but I’m afraid it will become more commonplace for local media, especially TV sites, in the years to come as local advertising becomes more competitive.
April 7th, 2008
Next week is the annual NAB-RTNDA conference in Las Vegas, and we’ll be blogging it as always (our eighth year). Like every year, we’ll be covering the convention with just about every technology means possible: live-blogging, video blogging, Flickring and Twittering. But this year, we’re going to add a user-generated twist: anyone attending the convention will be able to submit videos (via a YouTube group), photos (via a Flickr group) and their own observations, which will all appear on Lost Remote (and any other site that chooses to embed them). So if you’re attending, please plan on participating. We’ll be posting more info in the next few days, as well as our picks for our favorite panels — and the annual Lost Remote meetup.
The convention floor last year.
April 7th, 2008
