Category: media

“The protesters decried the film as revisionist history. ‘This is a homage to a murderer and a thief, responsible for deaths, torture and exile,’ said Bárbara Riquelme, who said her father, Samuel Riquelme, a former chief detective, was arrested and severely tortured after the coup. ‘This government should have denied permission for this homage, but it didn’t, because it also has blood on its hands.'”

“Right now, the only thing here is a heavy wooden sign marking it as the future home of the Citizen Theater. But renderings have been drawn and the interior design process is well under way for what would be the first movie theater in Fort Worth devoted exclusively to independent and foreign cinema since the Ridglea Theater stopped showing movies in the early 1990s.”

“That it should be news that advertisers should follow time-tested principles when advertising in newfangled media highlights how confusing social media has been for many marketers.”

“The mid-budget movie — largely abandoned by the six major Hollywood studios — is becoming increasingly difficult to bring to life for producers.”

The agreement, between Clear Channel and Big Machine, the record label behind Taylor Swift and other country acts, will for the first time allow a label to collect a royalty when its songs are played on the radio.

“The internet is now in its very own age of video, and there’s simply so much traffic moving on the network that websites are striking deals with the ISPs themselves and installing their own gear in nondescript buildings all over the world.”

“The porn industry is in crisis, its profits decimated by the impact of the illegal downloading of pirated content from YouTube-style sites and also amateurs uploading their own sex scenes on paid-for sites.”

“It’s impossible to ignore the indications that, more than anything else, moviegoers build their viewing not around a sense of discovery, but the comfort of seeing what they’ve already decided they’re going to enjoy.”

“The program, which began on Jan. 30, 1976, has in more than 200 live telecasts given millions of viewers a front-row seat to opera, orchestra, dance and theater productions at Lincoln Center, brought to air under existing performance conditions without extra lights or overly intrusive cameras.”

Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen said a new ad-skipping feature that has infuriated major broadcast TV networks is a “competitively necessary” response to the explosion of cheap Internet video. That Web video threatens the pay-TV ecosystem, he added, and it is partly caused by the TV networks themselves.