Tag Archives: Media

Pricewaterhouse-Coopers predicts that spending on entertainment and media industry around the globe will surpass $1.1 trillion in 2003, rising by 3.7 percent from its 2002 level: The firm forecasts that, spurred by a 30% CAGR in broadband, growth opportunities for television distribution, videogames, Internet access and home video will also …

ReplayTV is eliminating the PVR’s abilities to skip commercials automatically and send shows through the Internet, two of its best features, sealing its own doom – good thinking: Executives at DNNA, the D&M Holdings Inc. subsidiary that bought the Replay line from Sonicblue Inc., said they made the concessions to …

Kansas Republican Sen. Sam Brownback is preparing a consumer-friendly digital copyright bill that he could present as soon as this week. In what must be taken as a good sign, it has the RIAA spitting: “This draft legislation is weighted down with a variety of bad public policy judgments hostile …

Although newspaper and television companies (and in many cases, why bother to distinguish between the two?) got the milk and cookies from the FCC last week, at least we have the small mercy of Clear Channel feeling screwed as radio ownership rules weren’t generally liberalized: Despite the sweeping deregulation the …

Nothing terribly new here, but we can’t hear enough times how badly commercial radio blows chunks, nor why. And the media companies and the FCC wonder why people are upset about loosening the ownership rules even more? Blind, deaf and dumb: I grew up glued to radio and was present …

Hey, that was fun. I was just on the BBC Five Live Up All Night radio show – up all night alright, it was almost 3am there (10pm here) – with host Dotun Adebayo. We talked about Pearl Jam leaving Epic Records and its ramifications – the producer caught the …

Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, the FCC’s oversight committee, gave the five Commissioners a spanking yesterday: many senators expressed disappointment, outrage and confusion over the FCC’s decision to allow broadcast networks to buy more television stations, among other changes. “It looks for all the world …

Wow, I guess creating an atmosphere where plagiarism and lying like Satan himself were tolerated is a pretty big deal after all: The New York Times announced today that Joseph Lelyveld, former executive editor of The Times, has been named interim executive editor, assuming the responsibilities held by Howell Raines, …

As Nigel reported here on May 22, Natalie Maines wore a shirt with “F.U.T.K” during her May 21 performance at the Academy of Country Music Awards. Although I disagreed with her assessment of the war and Bush that caused all the original flap, the reaction was way overblown, and the …

The RIAA is so petulant that Morpheus and Grokster weren’t held responsible for the piracy committed by their programs’ users that they are suing the Morpheus creator again – this time for a service that wasn’t even launched. Weep: The Recording Industry Assn. of America issued a brief statement in …