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Broadcasting & Cable reported this week that Dr. Max Gomez, the Health and Science reporter for NBC’s flagship station in New York, will be among those losing jobs as part of the network’s cost-cutting. If this is true, it is perhaps the ultimate expression of a trend we’ve seen in local TV news for some … Continue reading “Dr. Max Gomez out at WNBC?”
As had been rumored, Clear Channel — the largest ownership group in radio, with more than 1,500 stations — has been sold. The purchase price: $26.7 billion. As Radio & Records reports, the result will be 448 radio stations put on the market: Veteran broker Frank Boyle tells R&R he expects the pricing on this … Continue reading “Radio Upheaval”
Whatever you think of global warming as a scientific phenomenon, from the perspective of John Kotter’s penguin fable it is undeniable that economic icebergs are melting from underneath all sorts of businesses and their employees. Time magazine announced some huge changes this week, and Jeff Jarvis, as usual, has a spot-on commentary. I found this … Continue reading “Electronic Disruption Not Just for Media”
Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere report shows a slight increase in the time it takes for its number of blogs tracked to double (it’s now about 236 days), which is somewhat to be expected given that the total is now about 57 million. Businessweek, the Washington Post and New York Times each have articles about … Continue reading “Worth a Click”
The Washington Post had an article yesterday discussing the seismic shifts at 30 Rock: NBC Universal announced sweeping cuts to its television operations yesterday, demonstrating just how far a once-unrivaled network must now go to stay competitive with YouTube, social networks, video games and other upstart media. The media giant said it will shed up … Continue reading “Big Layoffs at NBC”