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Production plummets in L.A. in 2009
January 14, 2010 | 8:15
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It may have been a banner year at the box office, but 2009 was a complete dud for local film and TV production.
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Media Morning: Cable and satellite companies ask FCC for help - USATODAY.com - 2 views
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"To stop broadcasters from flexing their muscles, the coalition asked the FCC to mandate that disputes be settled by an arbitrator. They also want regulators to bar stations from withholding their programming, their most potent bargaining chip."
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With Tablet, Apple Sees New Money in Old Media - WSJ.com - 1 views
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Apple is looking to renovate old media and content distribution in the home and classroom
For Japan's cellphone novelists, proof of success is in the print - latimes.com - 0 views
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Japanese cell phone novels extend user generated content into published works, and offer niche story telling targeted at and often created by teen girls.
NBC Rations Olympics Content While Social Media Grouses - 1 views
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"Social media blogs complain about too much advertising on NBC's Vancouver Olympics. And yet NBC has released new viewer data showing that in virtually every single category - including brand recall, engagement, and other marketing metrics - numbers are up for advertisers who bought into the winter games. Viewership is up right now, too: some 25% higher than the 2006 games in Torino, Italy."
Switching Power: Rupert Murdoch and the Global Business of Media Politics: A Sociologic... - 0 views
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...the ability to control connection points between different networks (e.g. business, media and economic networks) is a critical source of power in contemporary society...
MediaPost Publications Bold Predictions From 24/7 Real Media's Moore: Publishers Should... - 0 views
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David Moore discusses the issues concerning original premium content and the internet, and suggests a pay model as a means of solving the problem
Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits - 0 views
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The Toronto-based startup Thoora promises to gauge how well individual news stories are doing by analyzing and calibrating real-time data from blogs, mainstream news sources and Twitter. Thoora's software uses more than 100 attributes to determine not only the most popular content but also the highest quality, using measures such grammar and spelling and the authority of sites that link to the content.
Digital: Content Producers Adapt as Web Redefines 'Quality' - Advertising Age - Digital - 0 views
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Article discussing the complexities of content produced on the web, and how quality and standards have changed in order to adapt to the internet marketplace.
Production plummets in L.A. in 2009 | Company Town | Los Angeles Times - 0 views
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Hardest hit was feature-film production, which had been steadily falling over much of the last decade as L.A. lost jobs to Canada and, increasingly, other states such as New Mexico, Louisiana and Michigan that offer lucrative tax credits and rebates to filmmakers. California's newly adopted film tax credit program helped to blunt the downturn, with production activity increasing by double digits in the second half of the year. About 50 productions have qualified to receive about $100 million in tax credits since the state program debuted this summer
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Discussion of decline in television and film production in Los Angeles area in 2009. Causes include the strike, fewer pilots, use of sound stages, etc.
YouTube's Quest to Suggest More, So Users Search Less - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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YT is out to increase the amount of time that viewers spend on the site, which is currently 15 mins per day. They spend 5 hrs per day on TV, so YT execs see that as their main competition. How to make YT viewing experience more like TV? More sticky? Need to generate new models for search suggestions ("discovery," a la Netflix and Amazon, or social media, a la Facebook). Also need to explore models for pushing content, Amazon.
Brier Dudley's Blog | Vancouver Olympics online video: The cableization of the Web? | S... - 0 views
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NBC's current online coverage of the Olympics is discussed in light of the online technology and the use of "cable verification" to establish new online models limiting free content.
TVB | CBS Won't Pony Up for Unmeasured Mobile DTV - 1 views
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"There's an iPhone App for CBS News and the network's content is available on FLO TV, both distributed via devices with the type of audience data the network seeks. Seidel said the network elected not to participate in the Open Mobile Video Coalitions because it has no audience authentication for over-the-air, mobile DTV."
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New York Times experienced an upswing in Internet ad revenue. This analyst says they shouldn't get too excited.
Branded Content Goes Gavel to Gavel - 0 views
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noted that many of the branded integrations in the BiE book are for projects that have not yet been picked up for distribution by a m
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Another executive noted that networks usually want to be involved in the integration process as well so that they can attach an inventory buy to the agreement. A pre-sold integration "could eliminate a whole category of brands from the show" that don't want be to associated with a competitor, the source said. "So that dynamic gets totally disrupted," the source added.
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A media firm rolls out a new approach to product placement and branded integration buys--auctions. But will it work?
Publishers Gain Leverage in E-Book Negotiations With Google - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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With the impending arrival of digital books on the Apple iPad and feverish negotiations with Amazon.com over e-book prices, publishers have managed to take some control - at least temporarily - of how much consumers pay for their content.
Radio Business Report/Television Business Report - Voice of the Broadcasting Industry - 0 views
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"Portending future growth of viewing on alternative platforms, incidence of TV consumption on the computer/ handheld devices is already ubiquitous among young people, with 82% of 15-17 year olds surveyed viewing at least monthly. On handheld devices alone, half (48%) of online young people surveyed report watching TV content at least monthly, doubling from 24% last year."
Utility Regulators Propose Key Tweaks In FCC Net Neutrality Proposal - 2010-02-18 17:29... - 0 views
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Ultility regulators weigh in on FCC proposed regulation, stressing non-discrimination on peer-to-peer and political content by broadband providers.
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