http://www.gurblogs.com/taxonomy/term/34/0 en http://www.gurblogs.com/node/72 <p>Uhh, <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/08/the-video-startup-that-may-never-launch/" target="_blank">this idea</a> = LAME-O! I&#39;ve got two words (and hyphenated ones, at that) for network tv execs who think <a href="http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/08/networks-try-to-build-youtube-competitor/" target="_blank">this</a> is the answer to their woes: BUH-BYE! </p> http://www.gurblogs.com/node/72#comment mainstream media networks tv youtube Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:18:43 -0800 admin 72 at http://www.gurblogs.com http://www.gurblogs.com/node/71 <p>I&#39;ll admit it. There&#39;s some weird satisfaction happening in watching the mainstream media outlets collapse - one by one by one. It&#39;s a work in very fast progress. And Bob Garfield over at Advertising Age recently offered <a href="http://adage.com/garfieldtheblog/article.php?article_id=113515" target="_blank">this latest doomsday analysis</a> of your local tv news.</p> <p><strong>[</strong>Local broadcasters depend on two things for the bulk of their revenue: ad inventory allotted to them within network shows and their ads on local news and the prime-access that follows. But rapidly shrinking network audiences will soon devastate prime-time ad revenues, and local cost-cutting will decimate local news budgets, starving the goose that lays the golden egg. </p> <p><a href="http://www.gurblogs.com/node/71">read more</a></p> http://www.gurblogs.com/node/71#comment mainstream media networks tv Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:54:10 -0800 admin 71 at http://www.gurblogs.com