blatherWatch: NPR: a conversation with bryant park project's alison stewart: "We got to sit down recently and talk to the Peabody Award winning chica Alison Stewart, the former MSNB reporter and host, now hired for the Bryant Park Project to co-host with Luke Burbank. It's NPR's brave new morning show still in the rough, but scheduled to be up and running Oct. 1.
Stewart, 41, won a coveted Peabody Award for her pioneering MTV coverage of the 1992 Presidential election. (as opposed to Billo Reilly who tells women he has a Peabody when he wants to distract them from his turkey neck) "
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Internet gives television a run for its money
By BOB KEEFE
COX NEWS SERVICE
LOS ANGELES -- Is the Internet starting to edge out television for consumers' free time?
A survey out Wednesday suggests so.
About 66 percent of respondents in the global survey by IBM Corp. said they watched between one and four hours of TV a day -- only slightly more than the 60 percent who said they used the Internet for personal reasons that long each day.
About 19 percent said they were online six hours or more a day for personal reasons -- from sending e-mails to watching goofy videos to interacting with friends on social networking sites such as MySpace. By comparison, only 9 percent of respondents said they spent six hours a day watching the tube.
About a third of respondents said they spent an equal amount of time -- between two and four hours -- on the Web and in front of the TV.
"The Internet is becoming consumers' primary entertainment source," Saul Berman, who leads IBM's media and entertainment strategies business, said in releasing the survey results. "The TV is increasingly taking a back seat to the cell phone and personal computer," especially among consumers ages 18 to 34. Read More
COX NEWS SERVICE
LOS ANGELES -- Is the Internet starting to edge out television for consumers' free time?
A survey out Wednesday suggests so.
About 66 percent of respondents in the global survey by IBM Corp. said they watched between one and four hours of TV a day -- only slightly more than the 60 percent who said they used the Internet for personal reasons that long each day.
About 19 percent said they were online six hours or more a day for personal reasons -- from sending e-mails to watching goofy videos to interacting with friends on social networking sites such as MySpace. By comparison, only 9 percent of respondents said they spent six hours a day watching the tube.
About a third of respondents said they spent an equal amount of time -- between two and four hours -- on the Web and in front of the TV.
"The Internet is becoming consumers' primary entertainment source," Saul Berman, who leads IBM's media and entertainment strategies business, said in releasing the survey results. "The TV is increasingly taking a back seat to the cell phone and personal computer," especially among consumers ages 18 to 34. Read More
Monday, August 13, 2007
Business & Technology | Google's video service closing | Seattle Times Newspaper
Business & Technology | Google's video service closing | Seattle Times Newspaper: "SAN FRANCISCO — Google is shutting down a service that sold and rented online video, ending a 19-month experiment doomed by the proliferation of free clips on other Web sites like the Internet search leader's YouTube subsidiary. The decision, confirmed late Friday, underscores Google's intention to concentrate its financial muscle and brainpower on developing an advertising format to capitalize on the immense popularity of online video. YouTube, which Google bought last year for $1.76 billion, is expected to be the focal point of the company's expansion into video advertising. Google executives hope to settle on an effective advertising system for video ads by the end of this year."
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Internet ads seen surpassing print newspaper ads in 2010
Internet ads seen surpassing print newspaper ads in 2010: "NEW YORK -- A study 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, according to a report released Tuesday by Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a media investment firm."
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, according to a report released Tuesday by Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a media investment firm."
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