Category: media

“The Boston station said Thursday that it has acquired Public Radio International, the Minneapolis company that distributes some of the best-known public radio programs, including This American Life, to nearly 900 affiliates across the country and on satellite radio, reaching more than 16 million listeners.”

“The Indian network, New Delhi Television, or NDTV, says the manipulated data cost it nearly a billion dollars in advertising revenue, and the suit is seeking several billion dollars in damages.”

“Warner’s total spending of more than $4 billion in the county was an increase of nearly 30% from 1999, largely reflecting a growth in television production, according to a study the studio conducted of its local expenditures.”

“The recent firings of two Alabama Public Television executives, ousted over their purported unwillingness to air Christianist historical documentaries, has generated a swelling backlash within the state.”

“Two Hobbit movies are officially becoming three as Peter Jackson and his many Hollywood backers have finalized plans to produce a third movie based on the classic fantasy book and release it in the summer of 2014.”

“The fact that the Aurora, Colo. massacre occurred at a post-midnight screening of a film depicting murder and mayhem nonetheless has triggered a rare bout of soul searching in Hollywood.”

“The index found that 38-43 percent of consumers would cancel or switch their pay TV service if they lost top broadcast networks. More than a third would cancel if they lost the top cable channel in terms of viewer loyalty, ESPN. And 29 percent would cancel if they lost the second-ranked cable network, Discovery.”

If not, The New Yorker‘s Anthony Lane is happy to help.

“Amazon, of course, isn’t targeting newspaper revenues. It’s targeting customers — selling more to current ones and engaging new ones. Further hits to newspaper revenue are just another unintended consequence of accelerating disruption of all business as usual. The same-day push is built on strategies long in the making. Amazon knew its day of reckoning on its sales tax exemption would come. Like all big, smart companies with legions of lawyers and lobbyists, it delayed the inevitable, and with each delay, built market strength and cash.”

To be fair to the U.S. cable network, that was before he became an object of fevered desire across many lands. And there’s the matter of his name. (But HBO finally agreed, and now he’s starring in a BBC/HBO Tom Stoppard-directed adaptation of Ford Madox Ford novels.)