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Re:Amazing by maxume · 2009-08-14 00:44 · Score: 1 · on Battlestar Galactica Feature Film Confirmed

I figure, as much as anything, they are trying to de-brand the network. Some of the shows on USA appear to be generating equally strong ratings as the BSG final, with much lower production costs:

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/03/24/battlestar-galactica-finale-blasts-away-the-competition/15054
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/cable-tv/e3ic888e7d7726537250dc61eea82e93a48

(I'm not confident that the ratings listed in those articles are a fair comparison, but the viewer totals for both Burn Notice and Royal Pains are higher than the BSG finale; I doubt those shows are ridiculously cheap, but I can't imagine they cost more than BSG)

Re:At least you can get FiOS... by cgenman · 2008-03-08 21:45 · Score: 1 · on Verizon, Fiber Or Die?

Fios is viable over here in Cambridge. DSL reports claims that there is FiOS in parts of Boston proper. There is also a slightly out of date map showing deployment in the area. And, of course, their statement of intent to expand Boston coverage from a year ago. Heck, they're selling it out of Jordan's Furniture. You can't get more Bostonian than that.

I'd check availability in your particular part of boston. It doesn't seem like Verizon is holding anyone hostage, so much as rollout is taking longer than all of us would like.

Re:No shit? by j.sanchez1 · 2007-09-11 03:25 · Score: 4, Informative · on Study Finds That 'M'-Rated Games Sell Best

All pimply teenagers that want to be cool and need the latest gore and sex-laden game will buy those....

Are we still really propagating the falsehood that most gamers are "pimply teenagers"?

The gamer demographic is expanding beyond its core young male audience to include more women and older adults, and video games in general are becoming far more pervasive as the medium approaches mass market status, according to a Benchmark study released Thursday by Nielsen Entertainment's Interactive Group.

The results of the study may go along way toward diminishing the gamer geek stereotype. Among the more eye-opening statistics: nearly 40 percent of gamers are female, and nearly a quarter of gamers are over the age of 40.
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000873991

Re:Now is the chance by Jugalator · 2007-08-09 21:45 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Music DRM in Critical Condition?

Isn't this the company that sued Sony in the 80's, and tried to make VCRs illegal?

I don't remember, but I know they've bribed radio stations to broadcast crap music.

http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/tvstations/articl e_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002501367

Wikipedia also summarize it well:

In May 2006, an investigation led by New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer concluded with a determination that Universal bribed radio stations to play songs from Ashlee Simpson, Brian McKnight, Big Tymers, Lindsay Lohan and other performers working for Universal labels. The company paid $12 million to the state in settlement.

Re:Huh? by hazzey · 2007-02-19 11:03 · Score: 1 · on XM And SIRIUS Radio Merging

I thought that they were specifically RESTRICTED from merging. I had read that when the FCC gave them their licenses that a merger was not allowed.

In fact, here is an article about it from just a month ago.

Merger

If it isn't the best link, don't blame me. It was just one of the first ones that I found on google news.

Already happening by apnielsen · 2006-06-18 01:23 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Google to Compete with Nielsen?

Nielsen's been working on total measurement for years. Arbitron and VNU (current holders of Nielsen Media research) got together to build Project Apollo. However, because of the trouble Arbitron is having getting its Portable People Meter accredited, Apollo's deploying Nielsen's A/P Meter instead, which I've commented on before.

I work at Nielsen Media at the GTIC facility in Oldsmar FL and I've been hearing about Apollo for many years, but it seems that the rest of the world has only heard about it recently. Project Apollo has been described (internally) as the "holy grail" of measurement, which follows a consumer across every media channel and measures the affect on purchasing habits.

What it looks like Google is doing is a subset of Project Apollo, and even if it could compete on the TV/video side they probably need to license the tech from Nielsen. I'd love to have Google as an ally, but as a competitor I think they'll find Nielsen pretty hard to dislodge.

Dumbed down summary and YRO? by sdo1 · 2006-02-11 02:08 · Score: 4, Informative · on Disney Trades Person for Intellectual Property

First off, what on earth does this have to do with "Your Rights Online"?

Second of all, there was a lot more in the trade than just the cartoon. According to Media Week ESPN wanted:

(1) The cable telecast rights NBC owns to air Ryder Cup golf matches on Fridays in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014; (2) The rights to air expanded Olympics highlights on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNEWS through the 2012 Games; and (3) The rights to the animated cartoons, Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, which were created by Disney animators in the 1920s, but distributed by Universal Studio, which got the rights to the cartoons.

and...

NBC will run an on-air promotion through 2011 for ESPN's Monday Night Football telecasts each week during its SNF telecasts... Also through 2011, ESPN obtained expanded-highlights rights for NBC Sports telecasts of Notre Dame football, the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness.

So, I fail to see what's news here. In the entertainment business, this sort of IP and rights trading/selling happens all of the time. Saying "trading a person for a cartoon" is an incredible dumbing-down of what happened.

So tell me again what this has to do with my rights online?

-S

Re:What's up with the modified statue? by Ohreally_factor · 2005-01-18 06:10 · Score: 1 · on Is Atlas Holding Hipparchus' Lost Star Map?

Which brings up the point that our culture in the US is increasingly dominated by a small yet very vocal minority that holds these prudish "moral" values.

We now know that 99.8% of all FCC complaints were generated by one group: the Parents Television Council. Note that this statistic does not include nipplegate complaints, which were apparently more widespread.

Re:something overlooked by Seraphim_72 · 2005-01-08 17:58 · Score: 1 · on The Law as a Parent

And the lefties that control the media would have us believe that the videogames are the problem.

Hey thanks for making this a partisan issue, because I am sure that the only the right cares about raising thier children. Oh, and if you look a little deeper you will see that most of the fire comes from the right not the left. Keep your hate to yourself, the rest of us cant stand your brand of hate anymore.

Sera

No so fast, McGraw by Safety+Cap · 2004-12-27 08:54 · Score: 1 · on Texas State Parks Offer Wi-Fi

500 petitioners is nothing ~. Who cares what they think?

Apparently, the FCC does: 23 people -> 90 complaints -> $1.2 million fine for stations that carried an episode of Married by America* (proud members of the 'Faux' Broadcasting Group, all).

*According to Faux, 5.1 million people watched the episode in question. So, 0.00045% (that is 45 hundred-thousanths of one percent) of the audience complained and that resulted in a massive fine.

Re:What a bunch of nonsense, support ... by Ralconte · 2004-12-22 13:29 · Score: 1 · on Reason Interviews Michael Powell

An article in Media Week reports that the complaints about the famous wardrobe malfuction at the superbowl was all from the same group -- a bunch of copies of the same letter. The FCC claims they didn't notice they were getting a bunch of near photocopies, I figure it pleases both the Religious right and liberals (or did you all forget Sen. Liberman vs. video games and Tipper Gore with the PMRC). This is the perfect bipartisan issue that can't fail.

Re:WTF!?! this is totally stupid by spectecjr · 2004-12-19 09:43 · Score: 4, Informative · on FCC Indecency Rules Don't Apply to Satellite Radio

And it looks like you're in the minority. The FCC DOES do what the majority of people want and the majority DON'T want Janet's breast on OTA broadcasts. The majority DO want censorship to that degree. Just because you feel the right to something doesn't make your opinion the majority opinion.

Incorrect. 98% of all complaints to the FCC come from ONE single lobbying organization.

That's not the majority. That's a lobbying group with an agenda they want to push.

Re:"Privately owned" by Catbeller · 2004-12-19 08:33 · Score: 3, Informative · on FCC Indecency Rules Don't Apply to Satellite Radio

Arg. I proclaim there was no Janet Jackson debacle. There was a manufactured debacle on the sadly (now) right-wing cable news channels, right wing radio and most importantly a few "decency" (right wing churches SEE: southern, baptist, fundamentalist ) groups flooded the FCC with complaints. In 2003, 99.8 percent of the complaints come from the Parents Television Council. Here's a sample:

What Powell did not reveal--apparently because he was unaware--was the source of the complaints. According to a new FCC estimate obtained by Mediaweek, nearly all indecency complaints in 2003--99.8 percent--were filed by the Parents Television Council, an activist group.

This year, the trend has continued, and perhaps intensified.

Through early October, 99.9 percent of indecency complaints--aside from those concerning the Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" during the Super Bowl halftime show broadcast on CBS-- were brought by the PTC, according to the FCC analysis dated Oct. 1. (The agency last week estimated it had received 1,068,767 complaints about broadcast indecency so far this year; the Super Bowl broadcast accounted for over 540,000, according to commissioners' statements.)

A small fundamentalist group is, with Bush and Powell's avid help, bringing down a blanket of censorship on America.

( .hj by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-31 18:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Matchbox -- a Small Footprint Window Manager

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