Category: media

Preemptive offer of $700 million for San Francisco’s KRON is most ever for a single station.  San Francisco Examiner

Independent films with small budgets take to the internet, campuses, as alternative to mass-media campaign. Hey, it worked big time for “Blair Witch.” Orange County Register

The Los Angeles City Council has agreed to consider setting up a loan fund for the TV and movie industry – an attempt to stem the exodus of projects leaving town for the cheaper climes of Canada.  Backstage

– opens with American Civil War epic.  BBC

Leading US broadcasters set up $1 billion investment fund to encourage minority entry into broadcasting. Some critics charge move is attempt to buy off impending regulatory restrictions.  Variety

Blockbuster Video and net giant America Online form alliance to rent videos over the net.  Variety

Movement or philosophy? Budget or an aesthetic? Digital or analog? Very small room or an expanded state of mind? The micro-cinema movement has grown into a national trend.  Baltimore Sun

New technology in theaters allows closed captioning in your seat, descriptions in your ear.  Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

In Hollywood, a dispute between directors and screenwriters about who gets to take credit for some films.  NPR Morning Edition  [Real Audio clip] 

Enterprise reporting declining on TV – nine of ten stories originate off the police scanner or from planned events, says the Project for Journalistic Excellence.  Los Angeles Times