Time Warner reports $16 billion loss (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Marketwatch.com ^ | February 4, 2009 | Staff

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From the article:

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=99628

“The prime-time unit price deflation is being caused by a number of factors, says TargetCast Senior Vice President, Director of Broadcast Gary Carr—but the two biggest factors are the economy and the networks’ declining share of TV audience viewing.”

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003937569
‘NYT’ Editor Reveals ‘Deadly Serious’ Discussions on Charging for Online

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003937645
AP Exec Talks Future of Newspapers with College Students

[Charles Martel]

On the other hand they have mined their back catalogue for decades now with ‘limited’ releases of their classics. It may be possible that everybody who wants a copy of Cinderella finally has one.

Yes, but will this dwindling revenue compel them to finally release a DVD of Song of the South? I can just see it now: "...this historic Disney film will be available on DVD and blu-ray for a limited time only, then Uncle Remus goes back in the vault!"

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For The Longest TIME

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http://www.slate.com/id/2210333/pagenum/all/
Alms for the Press?
The case against foundation ownership of the New York Times.

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http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/impressions/2009/02/02/endowed-and-out
Endowed and Out
Turning into nonprofits is not a solution for the media’s woes.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-rutten4-2009feb04,0,5630556.column

Newspapers need an antitrust exemption
An antitrust exemption would allow the industry to begin charging for the Web content that it’s now giving away.

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SOTS is readily available from the usual dodgy spots on the Internet. Disney doesn’t want the headache of releasing it - cowards.

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Can't Find The TIME

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/forestwebs_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003937324
FORESTWEB Report: U.S. Dailies’ Newsprint Consumption Falls by 1 Million Tonnes in 2008

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/951daaec-f25c-11dd-9678-0000779fd2ac,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F951daaec-f25c-11dd-9678-0000779fd2ac.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fjournalism.org%2Fdailybriefings&nclick_check=1
News Corp set to trim newspaper jobs in US and UK

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/02/03/DD5T15LKJ2.DTL
Is Katie Couric coming or going?

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1876945,00.html?xid=rss-business
False Hopes for Internet Profits

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NFL is the only thing that I miss be Cableless. I think, including the SB, I only watched two or three games this year.

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"By the end of this decade or shortly thereafter, television networks as we know them today will cease to exist. They will be just another url on the world wide web competing against millions of others."

"Network evening newscasts will go dark after the '08 elections and their news divisions disbanded."

Walter Abbott, (b. 1950), Media observer and commentator

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With online advertisement falling and readership rejection to pay monthly/yearly fees for online content what is the future for news? All news can’t be voluntary blogging?

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Beware the Printies

It's bad enough that newspapers are seeing their core business disintegrate and having trouble transitioning into their digital future. But they're also being held back by continuing and chronic problems with old-school managers who are clinging to the print model they grew up on and just won't let go.

Call these dangerous dinosaurs Printosaurus Rex. Or, for short: Printies. Printies exist throughout the newspaper business, but they're most pernicious in the executive suite, where they continue to hold back intelligent, aggressive digital development. You know the type: They rhapsodize about how nice it is to be able to hold news in their hands as they read it. They tend to wear expensive suits and drive nice cars, paid for in better times. They declaim about never reading blogs. They may have a Facebook profile–but no friends. (But they don't hesitate to hold forth on their "expertise" about Facebook.) They spend money on inane print promotions but don't bother to market their Web sites.

They print out their e-mail.

Rimshot to Potts for his comic timing. ROTFL. An old school client of mine, wealthy enough to buy decorative art in the six figure range, also prints out his email. My wealthy client's old school ways help me better understand billionaires such as Zell, who's DNA totally blocks any thought of a world without newspaper.

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All news can’t be voluntary blogging?

I think it can, to a large degree. Human beings have been sharing information since before the invention of newspapers, tv, radio, whatever. It's in our genes.

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TIME (Clock Of The Heart)

[Charles Martel]

SOTS is readily available from the usual dodgy spots on the Internet. Disney doesn’t want the headache of releasing it - cowards.

Yeah, I know. Disney did actually release a DVD of it a few years back, but not in North America.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Looks like they need to get busier writing articles telling us all how to live our lives.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Folks can look for a 35% increase in their monthly premiums for basic cable next quarter....

Then, they can start looking for replacements for 35% of their existing customer base.