Reminds me of the great Memorial Day photo that Anthony Suau won a Pulitzer for. I could stare at it for hours.
Note: The only copy of it that I could find online is very small and does not do it justice.
Entries tagged with: Media
CBS Sunday Morning had a nice story about Arlington National Cemetery
NBC moves to year-round schedule
This was bound to happen due to the pressure from cable networks.
Paramount to go all Blu too?
Apparently, Paramount had an out clause in it’s HD DVD contract. If they go Blu-ray, then it would be all but over in the format war with Universal as the lone major studio backing HD DVD.
Update: Bloomberg is reporting that Paramount is denying the report from the Financial Times. Their “current plan is to continue to support the HD DVD format”...roughly translated: “until we decide to announce our plan to change to Blu-ray exclusively, we will continue to support the HD DVD format”.
Update: At CES, Paramount, unlike the other studios, did not release it’s list of upcoming HD DVD releases. Sounds like they are fully committed to the HD DVD format to me.
Warner Brothers chooses sides in HD format war
Warner chooses Blu-ray exclusively after May. Looks like the war is pretty much over.
Time Warner Cable charges $0.23 for the ads they send you in your bill!
They even go as far as saying that the line item was a mistake and that that cost is usually bundled in with other charges. Let me get this straight...they charge the customer for the service, pass on every fee to the customer, and now they charge the customer for the advertisements they include in the bill? What a racket. Note to self...buy Time Warner stock.
Britian bans aussie ad
British regulators have forced a small change in an Australian Tourism ad because they object to the term “bloody”. Apparently, it’s a mild swear word in that version of English. You can see the full ad in Window Media or QuickTime, but if you’re offended by that word, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Due to the weird Aussie accent and the fact that I was paying too much attention to the nice looking, bikini clad, beach babe, I hardly noticed anything that she said, and I certainly wasn’t offended by it.
Sanjaya Won’t Win “American Idol”
Howard Stern has mentioned that he wants Sanjaya to win “American Idol”, and that he wants to throw all his media weight behind it by having his fans vote for Sanjaya.
While I don’t watch “American Idol”, or care who wins, I don’t think Howard will be successful in his campaign.
First of all, Howard has significantly lost the amount of listeners he could have reached before he moved to satellite radio. While those that followed him to satellite are probably his most loyal fans, it’s still a fraction of the listeners he could reach while on terrestrial radio. This fact will translate into a high percentage of Howard listeners that will call and vote for Sanjaya, but it will not be a very significant percentage of total “American Idol” votes coming in.
Secondly, I’m guessing that 50% of the normal regular voting fans of “American Idol” (not the Howard Stern driven fans) pick their favorite contestant and stick with them, and the other 50% vote for who they think is best on a weekly basis. I further assume that if the first group’s favorite is voted off, 90% of them pick a new favorite and keep on voting each week, rather than drop out completely.
Based on the above two assumptions (which I don’t think are far fetched), I will go on record and say that Sanjaya will not win “American Idol”. As the contestants are whittled down, all the “American Idol” faithful will continue to vote for contestants other than Sanjaya, and Howard’s lack of mass-audience-reach will not be able to overcome those numbers. I’ll say that Sanjaya doesn’t reach the final four.
Update: As predicted, Sanjaya was voted off last night, albeit a little earlier than I thought.
