http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ccrm/ en-us Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:39:35 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412330/posts The advertising hits just keep on coming for TV stations, networks and programmers -- and not in a good way. Overall, broadcast television ad revenues were down 22.6% to $8.8 billion in the third quarter, versus the same time period a year ago, according to the Television Bureau of Advertising. Local TV stations slipped 28.1% to $3.1 billion, with network TV off 21.5% to $4.7 billion. The best news came with syndicated TV, which dropped a modest 7.2% to $1.0 billion. The period was particularly rough compared to the broader nine-month period in 2009 to date, per TVB. Over this... Media Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412330/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:39:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411125/posts A Harley biker is riding by the zoo in Washington, DC when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents. The biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch. Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly. A reporter has... Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411125/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:45:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408273/posts Paper taking donations for Web content This holiday season, you have several options of where to donate your money: Salvation Army, Toys for Tots, soup kitchens. But have you considered the Miami Herald? It's not quite a charity case yet, but the paper of record in the Magic City is accepting handouts if you have any spare change. Starting today, users of the Herald's Web edition can make donations to the paper on each story. A link at the bottom of each story directs users to "Support ongoing news coverage on Miamiherald.com." Through the link, you can pay any amount... NBC6 Miami http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408273/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:14:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394202/posts NEW YORK, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The Washington Post (WPO.N) is closing its last U.S. bureaus outside the nation's capital as the money-losing newspaper retrenches to focus on politics and local news. "At a time of limited resources and increased competitive pressure, it's necessary to concentrate our journalistic firepower on our central mission of covering Washington and the news, trends and ideas that shape both the region and the country's politics, policies and government," the newspaper's top editor, Marcus Brauchli, wrote in a memo to employees that was obtained by Reuters. The Post will close its bureaus in Chicago, Los... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394202/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:28:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369111/posts Time Warner Inc's (TWX.N) magazine division Time Inc plans another round of job cuts as advertising declines erode revenue, a source familiar with the unit said on Thursday. The job cuts at Time Inc -- which publishes Time magazine, People, Sports Illustrated and Fortune -- would be at about the same level as the division cut last year, the source said. Time Inc. cut more than 600 positions, or more than 6 percent of its workforce, in that round. The company declined to comment, though a spokesman for Fortune magazine separately said that it plans to shave the number of... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369111/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:20:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319971/posts Inflation-adjusted numbers show papers are even worse off than you think Martin Peers had a smart Heard on the Street in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal on the critical question of how much of the recent plunge in media companies’ fortunes has been a cyclical decline versus a secular one. It’s obviously some of both, but the mix will decide what the next five years look like for magazines and newspapers, the critical providers of original reporting in the country. Alas, I’ve crunched some numbers on the industry and they’re beyond ugly. First, some definitions. A cyclical decline is one due... Columbia Journalism Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319971/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:21:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282794/posts The Gannett Company, owner of the nation’s largest newspaper chain, will go through another round of layoffs soon, with an announcement possible in the next few days, executives said Tuesday. The company’s United States and British newspaper divisions eliminated more than 10,000 jobs in 2007 and 2008, including about 2,000 layoffs last fall, and Gannett executives have said repeatedly that they expect more downsizing, including layoffs. The company, which also owns a chain of television stations and Internet ventures, ended last year with 41,500 employees, including 35,800 in its newspaper divisions. On Gannett Blog, a former Gannett editor who closely... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282794/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:55:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275515/posts We hear Platinum Equity has been doing some serious tire kicking at the bankrupt Sun-Times Media Group, which is not only ready but eager to deal. Platinum Equity is a Beverly Hills-based private-equity company that, in its own words, finds itself "typically working with 'strategic sellers' that seek to shed a non-core asset in order to refocus their business operations." The STMG is willing to shed everything -- in one swoop or in bits and pieces. This March Platinum Equity bought the formerly prosperous, influential San Diego Union-Tribune -- for what online newspaper analyst Ken Doctor said was reportedly a... The Chicago Reader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275515/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:19:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2275061/posts Washington Paper Hires Right-Leaning Pundits, Reporters to Take on the 'Nanny State' For the first few years of George W. Bush’s presidency, Mark Tapscott was a journalist without a newsroom, shouting from the sidelines about his industry’s swift decline. Tapscott ran the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Media and Public Policy, and trained reporters in the use technology for research and crunching numbers. When he considered how few conservatives, libertarians, or real skeptics of federal power were working in newsrooms, he saw a problem that was making the growth of government possible. “The [Freedom of Information Act],” wrote Tapscott in a... Washington Independent http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2275061/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:50:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274303/posts Suppose someone pulled the plug and a couple of million people didn't care. That may be what the TV industry is discovering nearly a week after the U.S. broadcast industry converted from analog to digital broadcasting. Days after their analog TV signals went dark, 2.2% of U.S. households still haven't bothered to hook up to digital reception, according to estimates released Wednesday by Nielsen Co. Even more troubling, the estimates are based on households in Nielsen's national and local TV ratings panels, which means that more than 2% of Nielsen's panel is reporting zero TV usage in the days following... Media Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274303/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:49:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268134/posts Linked at Drudge: EVENING NEWS RACE WEEK OF JUNE 1, 2009 NBC 7,960,000 ABC 7,150,000 CBS 5,180,000* *Lowest Total Viewer delivery since NIELSEN records kept Drudge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268134/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:46:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262811/posts The Clarke Courier was a small newspaper for a small place. Its circulation was but 2,240, but in a county of just 14,000 people, that meant that if you wanted to know what was going on in Clarke, you had better check the Courier. No more. The Courier last week became Virginia's first paid circulation newspaper to die in the epidemic of closings, layoffs and cutbacks that are part of the dismantling of the American news infrastructure. It won't be the last. More than 10,000 journalism jobs have disappeared from U.S. newspapers so far this year, a pittance compared to... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262811/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:31:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224797/posts HEY GLOBE readers, can you spare some time? Discuss COMMENTS (110) Tell me. What does this newspaper mean to you? As you've no doubt noticed, we've become one of the biggest stories in town. The New York Times is threatening to close the place down unless it gets $20 million in concessions from the Globe unions. We're suffering from a double whammy: A bad recession and a self-defeating business model. Troubled times have sent advertising revenues plummeting. Meanwhile, we're selling the paper with one hand and giving it away on Boston.com with the other. That's never made any sense -... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224797/posts#comment Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:09:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2214246/posts U.S. Bill seeks to rescue faltering newspapers Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2214246/posts#comment Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:21:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207032/posts He's right. I have a growing category of stories on The War on Guns I call "Authorized Journalists." I use it to illustrate pervasive media bias and ignorance when it comes to reporting on guns and gun rights-related stories. I then use that to stick it to mainstream reporters and columnists attacking bloggers as unreliable and blaming us for dinosaur media failing to adapt to a changing environment. My message is basically this: You guys blew the trust you were given. If we did not have alternative media, stories would go unreported, under-reported, misrepresented and outright fabricated. You were supposed... Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207032/posts#comment Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:05:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007940/posts With print revenue down and online revenue growing, newspaper executives are anticipating the day when big city dailies and national papers will abandon their print versions. That day has arrived in Madison, Wis. On Saturday, The Capital Times, the city’s fabled 90-year-old daily newspaper founded in response to the jingoist fervor of World War I, stopped printing to devote itself to publishing its daily report on the Web. (The staff will also produce two print products: a free weekly entertainment guide inserted in the crosstown paper, The Wisconsin State Journal, and a news weekly that will be distributed with the... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007940/posts#comment Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:03:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995368/posts They're angry at their demanding editors. They're angry about the mushrooming workload in shrinking newsrooms. They're even angry about other angry journalists. But these angry journalists are happy they can now vent their frustrations to the rest of the world, courtesy of angryjournalist.com, a sort of online complaint board allowing ink-stained wretches to gripe anonymously. Ironically, their anger is partly fueled by the Internet, which has forced newspapers and television networks to reinvent themselves with painful consequences for their staffs. There's the veterans complaining about newsrooms stretched thin by executives requiring reporters to produce stories for old and new media.... Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995368/posts#comment Wed, 2 Apr 2008 10:31:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1994048/posts I'm sure you've all heard of the recent scandal in New York where the Governor (Eliot Spitzer, Democrat) was caught up in a call girl ring, but there was another scandal before that in which the Governor's political rival, State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno (Republican) found out that Governor Spitzer was using the State Police to spy on him: "I've been in government 31 years and I've never experienced anything like this," said Bruno. "I was stunned to learn Governor Spitzer is using the fine men and women of the New York State Police to conduct surveillance on me,"... http://bmovies.blogspot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1994048/posts#comment Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:34:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940788/posts A usual round of media self-criticism turned into a schoolyard brawl last week, as editors, reporters and bloggers traded insults over a front-page article in The Washington Post, all at the very online water cooler where they usually get their news about the industry. The Post article, which ran on Nov. 29, was about rumors of Barack Obama’s ties to the Muslim world. snip Then things got really ugly. On Dec. 10, Chris Daly, a Boston University journalism professor, posted an entry on his blog that turned the debate over the merits of the article’s reporting into a debate over... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940788/posts#comment Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:28:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942510/posts McClatchy November Revenue Slides 9.2 Percent As Classified Ad Spending Slows SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Newspaper publisher McClatchy Co. said Thursday revenue fell 9.2 percent in November, primarily from a sharp drop in classified ads as jobs and real estate listings continue to migrate online. Assuming McClatchy owned a stable of newspapers it acquired from Knight Ridder in both periods, revenue fell 7.9 percent last month. That figure also excludes from the comparison the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which was sold in May. Advertising revenue on this pro forma basis fell 8.6 percent. Without adjustment, the decline was 9.2 percent. Classified... Yahoo Biz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942510/posts#comment Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:15:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924983/posts IN many towns and cities, the newspaper is an endangered species. At least 300 daily papers have stopped publishing over the past 30 years. Those newspapers that have survived are struggling financially. Newspaper circulation has declined steadily for more than 10 years. Average daily circulation is down 2.6 percent in the last six months alone. Newspapers have also been hurt by significant cuts in advertising revenue, which accounts for at least 75 percent of their revenue. Their share of the advertising market has fallen every year for the past decade, while online advertising has increased greatly. At the heart of... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924983/posts#comment Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:10:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919412/posts NEW YORK Newspaper executives have complained for years that the yardstick used to measure audience -- paid print circulation -- was unfair especially when compared to the likes of television and radio. Those media have always touted audience share to advertisers so why shouldn't newspapers? Finally after years of debate, the industry is moving towards tracking its total audience which encompasses all its products (especially online viewership) -- not just how many people plunk down some coins for the newspaper. The change will be reflected next Monday, when the Audit Bureau of Circulations releases numbers for more than 700 daily... Editor & Publisher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919412/posts#comment Thu, 1 Nov 2007 12:30:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1887524/posts We don't know about you, but we're sick of having to dig for context every time a newspaper reports monthly sales--so we've put it all in a handy online spreadsheet.  We will now be analyzing monthly revenue info for The New York Times (NYT), Dow Jones (DJ), Lee Enterprises (LEE), The McClatchy Company (MNI), Gannett (GCI), and Tribune (TBC)--the latter until the Sam Zell deal closes and it disappears into invisible, private equity slash-and-burn mode. We won't bore you with the July details--you can see them for yourself--but the industry totals are below.  Also, the bottom line:  Every day we... Silicon Alley Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1887524/posts#comment Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:28:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851110/posts NEW YORK, June 15 (Reuters) - U.S. newspaper executives will meet next week in New York to wrestle with one of their biggest challenges: persuading investors to stick around. But there will be some conspicuous absences at the annual Mid-Year Media Review hosted by the Newspaper Association of America. Los Angeles Times owner Tribune Co. (TRB.N: Quote, Profile , Research) and Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. Inc. (DJ.N: Quote, Profile , Research) will skip the meeting. One is going private, the other may get bought. Shareholders at both companies lucked out after the surprise bids helped their... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851110/posts#comment Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:09:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844120/posts June 3, 2007 -- As you can see from the chart above, Katie Couric’s first nine months at CBS aren’t exactly going as planned - in fact, she’s costing CBS an arm and a leg and a whole lot more for each viewer she hangs onto in her shrinking audience. And last week the $15 million- a-year anchor got even more expensive....." New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844120/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:06:52 GMT