Profile of TIME
Posted on 02/04/2009 4:54:08 AM PST by abb
Profile of TIME
"Scrub the operation. This one's too far gone."
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090203/FREE/902039964
Media bigwigs don’t see ad turnaround until 2010
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02042009/business/bloomberg_to_cut_tv__radio_staff_153426.htm
BLOOMBERG TO CUT TV, RADIO STAFF
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090203/ap_on_hi_te/tec_techbit_amazon_kindle
Analyst estimates Amazon sold 500K Kindles in 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123362056606541549.html
HarperCollins Expands Into Video Books for Download
http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/Media_economy_57/Buyers_expect_upfront_to_be_down_a_tad.asp
Buyers expect upfront to be down a tad
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02042009/gossip/pagesix/more_mags_face_the_ax__153495.htm
MORE MAGS FACE THE AX?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02042009/business/no_people_at_wal_mart_153421.htm
NO PEOPLE AT WAL-MART
BIG MAG TITLES BECOME VICTIMS OF WHOLESALER STANDOFF
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090204/ARTICLE/902040335/2107/BUSINESS?Title=Herald_Tribune_cuts_jobs_and_some_home_delivery
Herald-Tribune cuts jobs and some home delivery
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={E3F5B89D-CC21-4544-A787-C78F845DF3E9}&siteid=nbih
Time Warner CFO: Turner ad sales seen flat with 1Q ‘07
Political correctness doesn’t allow a lot to shown or broadcast, so we have unending infomertials. Almost anything from the old days offends a pet liberal group. They chop the shows to shreds and they still offend.
Last year, one of the tiny networks put “Daniel Boone,” the old Fess Parker show on for a few weeks. Their disclaimer took forever to read...”This was produced as a children’s show and may not properly represent the historic accuracy of these situations.”
We are so offended by everything that we show nothing.
Time Warner CFO: Time Inc. print ad sales down worse than 4Q
By David B. Wilkerson
Last update: 11:23 a.m. EST Feb. 4, 2009
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Time Warner Inc.’s (TWX) publishing unit Time Inc. is seeing advertising sales that are down more than the 22% year-over-year decline that occurred in the fourth quarter, Chief Financial Officer John Martin said Wednesday.
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003937666
News Corp. to Cut 25 at ‘WSJ,’ Says ‘Financial Times’
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003937688
Maine’s Highest Court Questions Publication of Legal Notices
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Earnings-Preview-McClatchy-apf-14238301.html
Earnings Preview: McClatchy faces pressure in 4Q
McClatchy to report 4th-quarter earnings as advertising revenue declines and debt looms
“An old school client of mine, wealthy enough to buy decorative art in the six figure range, also prints out his email.”
The problem with this is that there are plenty of young people that anything over a few paragraphs has to be read in print. I am one of those people, turn 30 here just before the start of Lent. I don’t print out emails, that is a waste. But full detailed news articles or speeches/essays I have to read in hand. I just cannot sit in computer chair and read online. I also have to work things out on paper. That is coming from a techie with a decade in the IT industry. I am just not a gadget guy.
I hear rave reviews of the Kindle, but it is to expensive to just buy on a whim hoping it works out. If I knew somebody that owned one (I don’t) or a store where I could try it out then I would considered it. I didn’t buy a MP3 player until late 2007 and that was an used iPod Shuffle. Now I am willing to buy a bigger iPod, but then again I just use the Shuffle to carry MP3 files back and forth to keep my Home and Work libraries insync.
We live in a society where everybody wants things for nothing or so cheap that the only way a business can profit is to use slave labor or replace their workforce with technology. Technology was suppose to make the worker more efficient, thus increasing his productivity not replace him outright.
http://thesource.typepad.com/thesource/2009/02/the-mcclatchy-company-countdown.html
The McClatchy Company Countdown
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2009/02/hearst_will_drop_joa_wont_buy.php
Hearst: Will Drop JOA, Won’t Buy Times
If cable and satellite broadcasting, as well as the Internet, had come along first, newspapers as we know them probably would never have existed.
-Warren Buffet
My favorite the Time threads
LOL
ROFL!
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