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 Clooney's SAG Strategy
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June 28, 2008
Filed under: Deals, Celebrities and Controversy, Box Office, Distribution His last movie didn't do so hot, but George Clooney's still making headlines. This time, he has spoken out about the recent split between the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. According to Variety, Clooney has decided to stay neutral where many prominent actors have taken sides, and he's urging others to take the same route. If Hollywood actors go on strike, it'll probably be SAG's fault, considering the eagerness of AFTRA to negotiate a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. AFTRA's biggest defender is Tom Hanks, while Jack Nicholson is heading up the other side. "Stories about Jack Nicholson vs. Tom Hanks only strengthen the negotiating power of the AMPTP," Clooney said in a statement. Like many actors, Clooney wants to take any measures he can to prevent a strike. As a member of SAG, the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America, he wears many hats. "I'm hoping that there might be a way out of this," he said. "To be sure, I'm not the brightest bulb out there. So maybe someone has a lot better idea." Then he got personal: "I just happen to believe so strongly in both unions... my father, my mother, aunt, uncle, even cousins were all members." Nobody's doubting his allegiance, but after souring his relationship with the WGA after Leatherheads came out, it's hard to say how the other unions will regard him in the coming months. Permalink | Email this | Comments
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 Five Minutes of Who Asked You? - Episode 19
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April 28, 2008
Cloverfield comes out Ton DVD this week. Are you gonna buy it? You better! If you want to be our friend, you better! Because as you know four out of the five Who Asked You? hosts loved it! Speaking of which, if you click the image at the left it'll take you directly to our store page for Cloverfield where you can quickly purchase it for a modest amount of money. Be sure to check out all the extras on the DVD. Apparently there's some hidden Easter Eggs too! Aside from the C-Field madness, Blockbuster has put in an offer to buy Circuit City! Our expert panel will discuss the varying possibilities resulting from this purchase. Blockbuster wants to basically become the Google of electronics? Plus, we go all Entertainment Tonight on your ass with Ashlee Simpson prego news. And it's been so long I can't remember the last strike in Hollywood can you? Oh wait.... nevermind. Demanding nearly the same as the WGA, the actor's that make up both SAG and AFTRA will head to the bargaining table in hopes of cutting a deal with studio executives. We've got details about this. And when we say details, we mean a Transformer joke that will certainly have Keith retaliating with one of Cloverfield. By the way, he's the ONE host who did not like it. Finally, Dennis and Jabari will have their review of '88 Minutes' starring Al Pacino. And Dennis will offer his thoughts on 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall'. Mike is on assignment this week, so it'll be just four of the Asked Crew. Author: chaseshumway1 Keywords: circuit city blockbuster cloverfield fall out boy ashlee simpson sag aftra wga 88 minutes forgetting sarah marshall Added: April 28, 2008
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 2008 04-14 MediaBytes: Google - Advertising - Victoria Lindsay - Blockbuster - Circuit City - Salesf
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April 14, 2008
SHELLY PALMER discusses the connections between 8 teenagers in Florida, kidnapping, assault and online video. Read this week s essay, What We Can Learn From Eight Florida Teens .GOOGLE will soon open up its beta TV ad-buying service to the general public, ending the beta period and allowing ordinary users to purchase a TV spot on 94 participating networks on the DISH satellite service. Advertisers will know exactly how many DISH boxes played an ad and only pay for those that did. Targeting will be available by geography, demographics, daypart and network. Official launch is expected sometime in the next few weeks. In related news, Google will integrate Salesforce.com s CRM software with its suite of online office applications. The combined offering should provide a stronger competitor to Microsoft s CRM and Office software.BLOCKBUSTER has offered to buy CIRCUIT CITY for at least $1 billion. However, the struggling electronics retailer has refused to let Blockbuster conduct its due diligence by giving it access to financial records. Blockbuster has responded by making its bid known to the public. Both companies have struggled in recent years, with sagging profits and troubled stock prices.THE NY LEGISLATURE passed a bill that would force online retailers to collect sales tax for items sold to state residents. Governor Paterson will most likely sign off on the bill, ending the tax-less purchases at Amazon and other top online sites.ESPN.COM saw golf-related traffic jump 117% during the week of the Masters. Congratulations to the new champion, Trevor Immelman. The Masters Video Podcast was the most downloaded sports podcast on iTunes during the Thursday to Sunday period. On television the event saw the highest golf ratings in cable history during Friday s round.CBS SPORTS announced final stats for the online performance of March Madness. 4.7 million unique viewers tuned into March Madness on Demand, up 164% from the 1.8 million uniques last year. In total, the service streamed close to 5 million hours of basketball. A number of viewer-friendly changes added to this year s success, including dropping online blackouts, not requiring registration and letting online users link directly to games.FOX NEWS will soon reveal the details of Fox Fusion, a new ad-buying initiative that will let advertisers purchase time on Fox News Channel, the Fox Business Network, Fox-owned sites and Dow Jones sites including WSJ.com. Details are expected soon.AOL s Platform A won the right to handle all of Verizon s online advertising.DISH NETWORK lost an appeal of its recent loss in the TIVO patent trial. The satellite operator plans an appeal with the Supreme Court.SAG has offered AFTRA the chance to rejoin it at the bargaining table with the AMPTP. AFTRA has until Wednesday to respond. Read more at http://www.ShellyPalmer.com
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 Karmyn Kast 35 - Part 1 of Ghost Hunting
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March 31, 2008
Karmyn Kast 35 Credits: -Host/Producer - Karmyn Tyler -Executive Producer - Sue Tyler -Editing/Camera - Karmyn Tyler -Special Thanks the strange sounds in my apartment!!! More info on Karmyn Kast 36! SAG/AFTRA: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080330/ap_en_tv/hollywood_labor ChipIn and help Karmyn make her next album! http://karmyntyler.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2008/3/29/3609489.html Ghost Hunters - on the Sci-Fi network!! Music from Scary Sounds Halloween Music - bought at Walgreens 6 Halloweens ago. (I used the legal time limits on all 3 songs from Psycho) Psycho: The Complete Original Motion Picture Score
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 2008 03-31 MediaBytes: Microsoft - Yahoo - Sony - Xbox - Shine - MTV
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March 31, 2008
SHELLY PALMER probes several issues surrounding digital rights. What are your rights as Digital Citizens of the United States? Do we have a national broadband policy? What is it? What should it be? Read about digital deficiency and how it may jeopardize our status as a super power. MICROSOFT s white space device failed for a third time and now the FCC refuses to continue testing it. The device was intended to show that white space spectrum could bring Internet access to mobile devices without interfering with television signals. The tech industry is behind the initiative but Microsoft s repeated failures have not been helping the cause. YAHOO is launching Shine, a new site targeted at women in the 25 to 54 age bracket. Shine will offer content focused on parenting, relationships, food, beauty and more including exclusive content from Hearst, Rodale, Conde Nast and Time Inc. Shine will allow Yahoo sell advertising targeted directly to women, an online demographic it believes is currently under-served. It launches today. SONY will launch PIX, a linear movie channel on AT s forthcoming MediaFlo mobile TV service. PIX will feature classic movies from Columbia, TriStar, Screen Gems and Sony Classics. It will focus on familiar movies so that viewers can miss the beginning and stop watching whenever they feel like it. Sony Pictures Television will also announce a new mobile Jeopardy game for handheld users. MICROSOFT has signed a deal with Hollywood producer and talent manager Peter Safran to create original video content for the Xbox. Safran and Company will create scripted shows that run under ten minutes and focus on genres that are popular with the Xbox audience. The ad-supported shows are expected to begin this fall, starting with Xbox exclusivity before expanding into other distribution channels. A company spokesperson said the deal is the first of many. MTV NETWORKS will become the first Viacom property to embrace mobile ad-supported distribution. The network will place clips on mobile destination Mywaves. AFTRA and SAG will negotiate with the AMPTP separately. IAC won a court decision that will allow it to split into 5 companies. NEWSPAPERS saw print ad revenue drop 9.4% in 2007, the biggest decline since at least 1950. Read more at http://www.ShellyPalmer.com
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 2008 03-20 MediaBytes: FCC - NBCU - Verizon - Veoh - Rentrak
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March 20, 2008
Author: Media30 Added: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:16:20 -0800 Duration: 137* FCC reduces HD requirements for DISH and DirecTV. * NBCU to sell off two O&O television stations. * VERIZON reveals open access network plans. * VEOH sees weak performance for studio content. * RENTRAK signs new VOD rating deal with TURNER. * PLUS: Blu-ray gets cracked, Flash gets DRM-ed and more! Read more at http://www.ShellyPalmer.com
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 2008 03-20 MediaBytes: FCC - NBCU - Verizon - Veoh - Rentrak
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March 20, 2008
THE FCC will relax local HD carriage requirements for DirecTV and DISH Network, making the terms less burdensome than those imposed on cable. The satellite operators will be allowed to down-sample local HD television signals to a lower quality, decreasing the bandwidth that the stations will occupy. Both companies claimed that they needed several years to increase capacity before they could carry all local stations in HD. They now have until 2013 before local HD requirements kick in. NBCU will sell off O s in both Miami and Hartford. The sales are part of an overall shift in NBC Local Media s strategy towards becoming local media production centers. In related news, Jeff Zucker told an Ad Age conference that Hulu is a work in progress. Zucker praised the ability to run overlay ads without fully interrupting a show and said that usage has already exceeded expectations. He expressed concern over Antigua s threat of legalizing piracy of U.S. content, calling the issue troubling. VERIZON announced that it will certify devices for its new open network policy towards the end of this year. Any device meeting unrestrictive minimum network requirements will be allowed to connect without any service contract. Users will simply log on to Verizon s site to setup an account. The move will represent a major shift in network policy for one of the top mobile operators and will be closely watched. In other Verizon news, FiOS has added a slew of VOD content from CBS, Discovery Channel and more. The service offers around 10,000 VOD titles each month. VEOH claims that studio-produced content only accounts for 15% of the views on the video-sharing site with the rest going to indie content and user-generated clips. The site is able to sell content against UGC content by carefully vetting it and removing overly risque material. Ad banners on Veoh go for around $10 CPMs while videos ads net $20 CPMs. RENTRAK signed a new deal with TURNER to track on-demand viewing of TBS, CNN, Cartoon Network and more. The company now collects data representing 45 million set-top boxes on 23 cable operators. Rentrak stats are used by over 90 networks and studios. ADOBE launched software that offers DRM protection for downloaded Flash files. BLU-RAY has had its protection cracked by an Antigua-based software company. AFTRA ratified a contract wit NBC and ABC covering news anchors, correspondents and reporters. CBS will allow users to create embeddable mash-ups of March Madness video highlights. Read more at http://www.ShellyPalmer.com
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 2008 03-17 MediaBytes: DriverTV - Grid Networks - Rapt - Yahoo! Buzz - Microsoft
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March 17, 2008
Author: Media30 Added: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:16:18 -0800 Duration: 135* SHELLY PALMER on Love in the Time of Facebook. * NBCU buys 35% of DriverTV. * CISCO embeds P2P software on networking products. * MICROSOFT will purchase RAPT ad management co. * YAHOO releases traffic results for Buzz. * SAG and AFTRA bump heads again. Read more at http://www.ShellyPalmer.com
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 2008 03-17 MediaBytes: DriverTV - Grid Networks - Rapt - Yahoo! Buzz - Microsoft
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March 17, 2008
SHELLY PALMER shares a true story about the pitfalls of dating in the social-networking era. Is that perfect stranger you met really perfect? You may want to check his Facebook profile before deciding.NBC UNIVERSAL will purchase 35% of web site and VOD channel DriverTV for $6 million. DriverTV creates short promotional videos for major car makers, profiting from video production and receiving money each time a video is viewed. NBC U is looking to benefit from increased online spending by GM, Ford and other automakers. It will create synergy between DriverTV and NBC U properties, using the car-related videos on NBC.com and directing visitors to DriverTV.com.CISCO announced that it will embed peer-2-peer software from GRID NETWORKS in its home-networking products, after recently revealing that it was a major investor in the company. The move could turn millions of home networking products into p2p clients, helping shuttle video and audio around the web. In related news, Cisco has completed its plans to phase out the Scientific Atlanta brand, replacing all SA-labeled products with the Cisco name.MICROSOFT will purchase RAPT, a provider of online ad management systems. Microsoft had formerly used Rapt for ad management on MSN and the arrangement produced a 15% to 20% increase in ad revenue. In related news, Microsoft and Yahoo executives finally met last week to discuss the details of Microsoft s standing buyout offer. The meeting was the first sign of progress in an otherwise stalled deal with Yahoo having rejected the bid and Microsoft vowing not to increase it.YAHOO is creating major buzz with its new DIGG-like service. Yahoo Buzz allows users to vote on top third-party stories and adds the cream of the crop to Yahoo s front page. This is translating into some major traffic spikes for top web sites. Salon, TechCrunch, Huffington Post and US Magazine have all experienced record-setting days after getting buzzed articles posted on Yahoo s main page. About 1 million visitors have clicked through for each article.SAG and AFTRA are at odds again, this time over basic cable. SAG suggested it may want to include basic cable in the prime-time negotiations with the AMPTP, prompting AFTRA to accuse the Guild of intentionally distracting the focus from the prime-time issues. SAG believes that Phase One, an agreement between the two unions, covers collective bargaining for basic cable. AFTRA wants basic cable to remain a separate negotiation and issued a letter threatening to enter solo talks with the AMPTP. The soap opera continues.Read more at http://www.ShellyPalmer.com
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 Hulu - Lionsgate - iTunes - Disney - AFTRA - MediaBytes March 11, 2008
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March 11, 2008
Author: Media30 Added: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:37:46 -0800 Duration: 143* HULU launches Wednesday. * LIONSGATE adds iPod digital copies to DVDs. * DISNEY expects $1 billion in online revenue this year. * AFTRA nears contract for daytime serials and talk shows. * PLUS: News Corp on Yahoo and more. Read more at http://www.ShellyPalmer.com
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 Hulu - Lionsgate - iTunes - Disney - AFTRA - MediaBytes March 11, 2008
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March 11, 2008
HULU will officially launch on Wednesday, offering full-length episodes of 250 television series, 100 feature-length films and some of the top online video content. The News Corp - NBC U venture has gone all-out, adding new programming from Lionsgate, Warner Bros. TV Group, the NBA, the NHL, the Onion News Network and more. Of course, this is all added to its huge beta selection of content from Fox, NBC and more. Hulu has a lot of high-quality programming. The site will also blaze new trails in advertising by offering two unique ad formats. One will allow viewers to choose between multiple ads. The other will offer viewers a commercial-free show if they agree to watch a 2 and a half minute movie trailer. Since entering beta the site has already shown signs of being a success, growing to 5 million monthly viewers and having its content embedded in over 5,000 sites. Hulu is a major experiment and the long-awaited network reaction to YouTube. If you haven t tried Hulu during the beta period, log on to Hulu.com this Wednesday to give it a shot.LIONSGATE will begin including iPod-ready digital copies of films released on DVD and Blu-ray, starting with the May 27 release of Rambo. Fox initially kicked off the digital-copy concept last November with the release of Live Free or Die Hard. The number of digital copies actually activated so far has been small but the studios see the option as protection against piracy and a way to maintain DVD sales as viewers increasingly demand portable media.DISNEY expects to generate $1 billion in revenue from online content this fiscal year according to CEO Bob Iger. That would be about 3% of company revenue, based on 2007 numbers. Disney has been very aggressive at embracing the shift to online content, selling shows and movies on iTunes, streaming TV episodes on ABC.com and even purchasing social-networking site Club Penguin. The forward-thinking approach has clearly paid off and puts Disney in a good position as more viewers shift to new media.AFTRA has reached a tentative deal with producers covering daytime serials, talk shows and game shows. The deal increases wages, provides residuals for Internet downloads and increases health care contributions. The deal must now be ratified by members. Prime-time dramas and sitcoms are covered under a separate contract that expires in June.NEWS CORP said it will not compete with Microsoft for Yahoo.NIELSEN will introduce a new series of reports that analyzes the connection between blog coverage and box office performance.SPRINT will update is Mogul phone to run on the faster EV-DO Rev. A network, giving the phone Internet access speeds formerly reserved for laptops.ENTRIQ has acquired content-management provider DAYPORT.COMCAST and TICKETMASTER have canceled their major investment in AEG Live.
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 Vox Talk #35
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November 15, 2007
Spider-Man Cartoon Voice Actor, Tiger Woods Gives Voice to GM OnStar, The Death of Internet Radio?, Betty in Boca chats about Air Checks, David Ciccarelli on Microsoft Vista, and an interview with Darbi Worley of the Everything Acting Podcast.
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 Vox Talk #23
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November 13, 2007
Voices.com at the VOICE Conference, Lennie Weinrib, AFTRA, Don LaFontaine, Bob Bergen, What Voice Are You?, Voice Over Blogosphere, Julie Williams on Professional Development, Adam Fox answers your email, and Kara Edwards shares about VOICE 2007.
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