Ever since my days years ago blogging at Lost Remote, I’ve made it a tradition to post the greatest Thanksgiving moment in TV history. Ladies and gentlemen, the Thanksgiving Turkey Drop from WKRP in Cincinnati, broadcast in 1978. Happy Thanksgiving. (Click the link – the video’s not embeddable.)
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We’re seeing more and more outlets embrace a right- or left-leaning bias as part of their programming. This is especially true on radio, where conservatives have long ruled the commercial airwaves. But there’s a station in Boston that is trying to offer counter-programming — WWZN 1510 AM is gunning for the left. The Boston...
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DISCUSS: Could a new, ground-up media company survive in Boston? If so, do you see it as a for-profit or not-for-profit? How would you structure your dream newsroom?
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The newspapers continue their quest to find a paid online subscription model, and this week the Boston Globe is rolling out its paid offering. GlobeReader is comes with e-reader software that allows people to read a digital version of the Globe, presented in a “print format” style.
The cost is $4.98 a week for new...
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If you’re interested and you have the time (!), check out The Future of News, a summit being held in Minnesota today. They’re streaming live and liveblogging on the front page at thefutureofnews.ning.com. From the site:
The Future of News summit is an interactive day-long discussion that will define the role regional organizations play in...
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(This piece originally appeared in the AR&D Media 2.0 INTEL Newsletter, a publication of my employer. I include it here because its theme – using multiple Twitter streams – is important to understand as part of our overall mission.)
The Austin American-Statesman has started as a dedicated feed just for stories about the Fort Hood tragedy,...
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Lou Dobbs abruptly quit CNN Wednesday night on live TV in a near-Howard Beale-worthy rant. And that has put me in the mind to ask: “Do we even need name-brand broadcasters?” Yes, Fox News has proved a few names can be good for ratings. But on the local front, these people have become ridiculously...
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I spoke Friday at the Media Matters Writing Conference at UMass Boston, and I came away very encouraged about the future of online media. The conference is for middle schoolers and high schoolers, and the group I spoke with had some sharp, media-savvy kids. I talked about how to blog, as part of a...
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Boston MediaNEXT has been online for all of a week now, and you have been great to us. In our first week, we had more than 1,000 visits. That’s amazing, especially considering our fairly narrow niche. Thank you for your early-adopter support, and please continue to tell your friends about us, and our @bostonmedianext...
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There is one place where sports coverage will always be strong in Boston, and that is radio. We’ve talked about the place for sports coverage in the future, and if The Sports Hub is anything to go by, there’s room in Boston for more sports chat. The Boston Radio Watch reports that the new...
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