08/08: Media Briefing for Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Media Briefing for Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Turning children into lifelong readers involves buying them books, monitoring computer use and TV time, and reading to them, reports the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel.
The issue of whether it is a good idea to have a baby watch long hours of television on services such as BabyFirstTV is examined by the Globe and Mail of Toronto.
Americans? appetite for time in front of the computer, iPod or television may finally be on the wane, after almost a decade during which our media consumption grew steadily. Consumers spent slightly less time with media - including both traditional and digital offerings, in print and onscreen - in 2006, compared with 2005. It was the first decline since 1997, says the private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson. The Hartford Courant reports. Time spent with media dropped one half of one per cent, says Editor & Publisher. The study also finds that U.S. consumers are increasingly shifting their attention away from traditional, advertising-supported media in favor of entertainment such as the Internet, video games and cable TV, which consumers pay for. As a result, the boom in online advertising is expected to continue, with all Internet advertising spending , including ads on Web sites of traditional media outlets, overtaking print newspaper advertising in 2010 as the largest advertising category Associated Press reports.
A handyman has been charged with murder in the death of the editor of the African American weekly newspaper the Oakland Post, Chauncey Bailey, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. His career is detailed by the San Jose Mercury News. He is recalled by peers, in the Maynard Institute Web site.
A Maynard Institute opinion piece says there has been scant coverage of Chauncey Bailey?s shooting death, and asks what the coverage would have been if he were white.
The FCC has dismissed the United Church of Christ?s 2004 petitions to deny the license renewals of the CBS and NBC O&Os in Miami?WFOR channel 4 and WTVJ channel 6, respectively?because the CBS and NBC networks refused to air a UCC anti-discrimination spot. TV Newsday reports.
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to require large mobile-phone companies to enter roaming agreements with rivals, a move that regional operators say will allow them to offer more reliable service. Roaming agreements allow customers of one company to use another network when they travel outside the range of their carriers? cell towers. Yesterday?s 5-0 FCC decision is meant to ensure that subscribers of smaller mobile-phone companies will have service beyond the reach of their local network. Bloomberg News has the story. The ruling says the roaming must be made available at a ?reasonable? cost, according to PC World.
The idea of replacing or at least supplementing TV news crews with reporter-photographers is finding some adherents among broadcasters who are trying to cope with budget pressures and increasing demands for content. But as video journalist evangelist Michael Rosenblum concedes, it?s still a fringe movement with a long way to go.TV Newsday reports.
A former New York Times reporter who wrote an article in late 2005 about an underaged teenaged boy who operated a pornographic Web site may have sent more money to the young man than he had previously acknowledged, according to people familiar with sealed documents filed with a court in Tennessee. The New York Times reports.
Army investigators have concluded that the private whose dispatches for the New Republic accused his fellow soldiers of petty cruelties in Iraq, was not telling the truth.The finding, disclosed yesterday, came days after the Washington-based magazine announced that it has corroborated the claims of the private, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, except for one significant error. The Washington Post reports.
A progress report on possible passage of a federal Freedom Of Information law is provided by Broadcasting & Cable.
Sirius satellite radio CEO Mel Karmazin says he would not have fired Don Imus after Imus? comments about the Rutgers women?s basketball players, in an interview on the Fox News Channel.
The Newseum in Washington, D.C. will not be opening in mid-October as originally planned, says the Washington Post.
The New York Times is planning to eliminate its Internet paid service Times Select, in which readers pay for special columns by Frank Rich and Thomas Friedman and others, and return all its columns to free status, according to a report in the New York Post.
Viewers only recall about one third of TV ads, according to Nielsen. Media Post.com.
For whatever the reason, Pittsburgh has become a popular setting for TV shows, says Associated Press.
Charles Gibson of ABC World News has topped the ratings again, says Associated Press.
The proposed merger between Sirius and XM satellite radio companies is being opposed by North Dakota?s Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan, reports Radio Ink.
The anti-gay mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Jim Naugle, who has said that gay tourists bring AIDS, is filling in on the morning show Friday on talk radio station WFTL 850 Palm Beach/Fort Lauderdale. The Miami Herald reports. The mayor has linked AIDS in Broward County, Florida with gay tourism, says the Miami Herald. The station also features Dr. Laura Schlesinger and Michael Savage, who have been criticized for making anti-gay comments on their shows.
The Fox broadcast network has gotten an ?F? for its portrayal of gays in its shows by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), reports the New York Daily News.
Struggling Sprint Nextel is banking on a new service to reverse a string of disappointments, says the Washington Post.
Apple is offering sleeker and cheaper iMacs, offering more speed, lower prices, and upgraded software, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The company is getting back to its roots with this move, says the San Jose Mercury News. Apple is hoping to further propel sales that already outpace the rest of the personal computer industry, says Associated Press. Apple is revamping the product that put it on the high-tech map: the desktop computer, says the Los Angeles Times.
Sun Microsystems, the computer company that has fired 3,700 employees since May 2006, will spend $100 million to $150 million to eliminate more jobs. Sun, the fourth-biggest maker of server computers, will trim as many as 2,000 positions, says Bloomberg News. The money will be used to carry out the cuts and at the same time maintain profits, says the San Jose Mercury News.
With a video, a military father stationed in Iraq was able to see the birth of his child at a Massachusetts hospital, reports the Boston Globe.
The Boston Herald has sold its plant as it streamlines its operations, reports the Boston Globe.
Does Rupert Murdoch consider Dow Jones to be a diamond in the rough, and the Wall Street Journal to be a ruby? The New York Times says these are the alias names he used during his successful bid to acquire them for $5 billion.
Media Matters is arguing that Rupert Murdoch doesnot have the editorial independence of the Wall Street Journal at heart.
The Wall Street Journal?s coverage of China will not change when Rupert Murdoch takes over, even though Murdoch provides TV service there and has been accused of trying to curry the Chinese government?s favor in the past. Media Daily News reports.
Rupert Murdoch?s acquisition of Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal is calling into question whether there should be a national standard regarding concentration of control of ownership of national media, reports the Los Angeles Times.
That liberals and conservatives disagree about budget deficits and foreign policy isn?t a surprise. But how can there be left-right divides on wonky tech issues like radio-frequency spectrum auctions? Quite easily, judging from the recent controversy over what the FCC should do with the airwaves soon to be emptied by TV broadcasters as they shift from analog to digital transmissions. The Wall Street Journalreports.
As virtual pets online soar in popularity, parents get left feeding the online pet, and are stuck holding the electronic leash. The Wall Street Journal. reports.
In Maryland, in October, Baltimore will roll out a $2 million advertising campaign aimed at debunking the excuses that people have for littering. ?Don?t make excuses. Make a difference? will be emblazoned on bumper stickers and billboards as well as promoted in radio and television advertising. The Baltimore Sun reports.
The Seattle Times interviews two attorneys who look at the issue of music royalty fees, payment of which must be made when music plays.
A treasure of Cuban film culture is available via South Florida Spanish-language TV in two local programs that would never be shown in Cuba, as the presenters of both film series say. Both WSBS Mega TV Channel 22, a Spanish Broadcasting System property, and WJAN Channel 41, an independent station, carry regular weekly programs devoted to Cuban film, reports the Miami Herald.
The Spanish language TV network Univision wants the presidential candidates to speak to its TV, radio and online audience in Spanish - simultaneous translation - on issues affecting the Hispanic community. Univision, whose New York affiliate is WXTV channel 41, has contacted the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates about participating in 90-minute TV forums in September on issues like health care and immigration, according to Broadcasting & Cable.
Magazines are dealing with increasing postal and fuel costs, Media Week.
Turning children into lifelong readers involves buying them books, monitoring computer use and TV time, and reading to them, reports the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel.
The issue of whether it is a good idea to have a baby watch long hours of television on services such as BabyFirstTV is examined by the Globe and Mail of Toronto.
Americans? appetite for time in front of the computer, iPod or television may finally be on the wane, after almost a decade during which our media consumption grew steadily. Consumers spent slightly less time with media - including both traditional and digital offerings, in print and onscreen - in 2006, compared with 2005. It was the first decline since 1997, says the private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson. The Hartford Courant reports. Time spent with media dropped one half of one per cent, says Editor & Publisher. The study also finds that U.S. consumers are increasingly shifting their attention away from traditional, advertising-supported media in favor of entertainment such as the Internet, video games and cable TV, which consumers pay for. As a result, the boom in online advertising is expected to continue, with all Internet advertising spending , including ads on Web sites of traditional media outlets, overtaking print newspaper advertising in 2010 as the largest advertising category Associated Press reports.
A handyman has been charged with murder in the death of the editor of the African American weekly newspaper the Oakland Post, Chauncey Bailey, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. His career is detailed by the San Jose Mercury News. He is recalled by peers, in the Maynard Institute Web site.
A Maynard Institute opinion piece says there has been scant coverage of Chauncey Bailey?s shooting death, and asks what the coverage would have been if he were white.
The FCC has dismissed the United Church of Christ?s 2004 petitions to deny the license renewals of the CBS and NBC O&Os in Miami?WFOR channel 4 and WTVJ channel 6, respectively?because the CBS and NBC networks refused to air a UCC anti-discrimination spot. TV Newsday reports.
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to require large mobile-phone companies to enter roaming agreements with rivals, a move that regional operators say will allow them to offer more reliable service. Roaming agreements allow customers of one company to use another network when they travel outside the range of their carriers? cell towers. Yesterday?s 5-0 FCC decision is meant to ensure that subscribers of smaller mobile-phone companies will have service beyond the reach of their local network. Bloomberg News has the story. The ruling says the roaming must be made available at a ?reasonable? cost, according to PC World.
The idea of replacing or at least supplementing TV news crews with reporter-photographers is finding some adherents among broadcasters who are trying to cope with budget pressures and increasing demands for content. But as video journalist evangelist Michael Rosenblum concedes, it?s still a fringe movement with a long way to go.TV Newsday reports.
A former New York Times reporter who wrote an article in late 2005 about an underaged teenaged boy who operated a pornographic Web site may have sent more money to the young man than he had previously acknowledged, according to people familiar with sealed documents filed with a court in Tennessee. The New York Times reports.
Army investigators have concluded that the private whose dispatches for the New Republic accused his fellow soldiers of petty cruelties in Iraq, was not telling the truth.The finding, disclosed yesterday, came days after the Washington-based magazine announced that it has corroborated the claims of the private, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, except for one significant error. The Washington Post reports.
A progress report on possible passage of a federal Freedom Of Information law is provided by Broadcasting & Cable.
Sirius satellite radio CEO Mel Karmazin says he would not have fired Don Imus after Imus? comments about the Rutgers women?s basketball players, in an interview on the Fox News Channel.
The Newseum in Washington, D.C. will not be opening in mid-October as originally planned, says the Washington Post.
The New York Times is planning to eliminate its Internet paid service Times Select, in which readers pay for special columns by Frank Rich and Thomas Friedman and others, and return all its columns to free status, according to a report in the New York Post.
Viewers only recall about one third of TV ads, according to Nielsen. Media Post.com.
For whatever the reason, Pittsburgh has become a popular setting for TV shows, says Associated Press.
Charles Gibson of ABC World News has topped the ratings again, says Associated Press.
The proposed merger between Sirius and XM satellite radio companies is being opposed by North Dakota?s Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan, reports Radio Ink.
The anti-gay mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Jim Naugle, who has said that gay tourists bring AIDS, is filling in on the morning show Friday on talk radio station WFTL 850 Palm Beach/Fort Lauderdale. The Miami Herald reports. The mayor has linked AIDS in Broward County, Florida with gay tourism, says the Miami Herald. The station also features Dr. Laura Schlesinger and Michael Savage, who have been criticized for making anti-gay comments on their shows.
The Fox broadcast network has gotten an ?F? for its portrayal of gays in its shows by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), reports the New York Daily News.
Struggling Sprint Nextel is banking on a new service to reverse a string of disappointments, says the Washington Post.
Apple is offering sleeker and cheaper iMacs, offering more speed, lower prices, and upgraded software, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The company is getting back to its roots with this move, says the San Jose Mercury News. Apple is hoping to further propel sales that already outpace the rest of the personal computer industry, says Associated Press. Apple is revamping the product that put it on the high-tech map: the desktop computer, says the Los Angeles Times.
Sun Microsystems, the computer company that has fired 3,700 employees since May 2006, will spend $100 million to $150 million to eliminate more jobs. Sun, the fourth-biggest maker of server computers, will trim as many as 2,000 positions, says Bloomberg News. The money will be used to carry out the cuts and at the same time maintain profits, says the San Jose Mercury News.
With a video, a military father stationed in Iraq was able to see the birth of his child at a Massachusetts hospital, reports the Boston Globe.
The Boston Herald has sold its plant as it streamlines its operations, reports the Boston Globe.
Does Rupert Murdoch consider Dow Jones to be a diamond in the rough, and the Wall Street Journal to be a ruby? The New York Times says these are the alias names he used during his successful bid to acquire them for $5 billion.
Media Matters is arguing that Rupert Murdoch doesnot have the editorial independence of the Wall Street Journal at heart.
The Wall Street Journal?s coverage of China will not change when Rupert Murdoch takes over, even though Murdoch provides TV service there and has been accused of trying to curry the Chinese government?s favor in the past. Media Daily News reports.
Rupert Murdoch?s acquisition of Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal is calling into question whether there should be a national standard regarding concentration of control of ownership of national media, reports the Los Angeles Times.
That liberals and conservatives disagree about budget deficits and foreign policy isn?t a surprise. But how can there be left-right divides on wonky tech issues like radio-frequency spectrum auctions? Quite easily, judging from the recent controversy over what the FCC should do with the airwaves soon to be emptied by TV broadcasters as they shift from analog to digital transmissions. The Wall Street Journalreports.
As virtual pets online soar in popularity, parents get left feeding the online pet, and are stuck holding the electronic leash. The Wall Street Journal. reports.
In Maryland, in October, Baltimore will roll out a $2 million advertising campaign aimed at debunking the excuses that people have for littering. ?Don?t make excuses. Make a difference? will be emblazoned on bumper stickers and billboards as well as promoted in radio and television advertising. The Baltimore Sun reports.
The Seattle Times interviews two attorneys who look at the issue of music royalty fees, payment of which must be made when music plays.
A treasure of Cuban film culture is available via South Florida Spanish-language TV in two local programs that would never be shown in Cuba, as the presenters of both film series say. Both WSBS Mega TV Channel 22, a Spanish Broadcasting System property, and WJAN Channel 41, an independent station, carry regular weekly programs devoted to Cuban film, reports the Miami Herald.
The Spanish language TV network Univision wants the presidential candidates to speak to its TV, radio and online audience in Spanish - simultaneous translation - on issues affecting the Hispanic community. Univision, whose New York affiliate is WXTV channel 41, has contacted the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates about participating in 90-minute TV forums in September on issues like health care and immigration, according to Broadcasting & Cable.
Magazines are dealing with increasing postal and fuel costs, Media Week.
