Category: media

Canada’s CBC television network told to strip itself of what its audiences seem to watch most – American movies and hockey. Make it less commercial, say regulators. Suicide, reply network execs. – New York Times 01/25/00 

Technology lets marketers know what radio station you’re listening to as you pull into their parking lot. Privacy watchdogs cry foul. – Wired 01/25/00

— big winners at Golden Globes. – St. Louis Post-Dispatch 01/24/00

• AMERICAN BEAUTY big winner at Golden Globes. – BBC 01/24/00
  
  
• New York Times account. 01/24/00
  
  
• GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS listed. – BBC 01/24/00

Robert Redford reflects on the dance of independents as Sundance opens. – Variety 01/24/00

Music giant and multi-media behemoth to combine in latest media consolidation. – BBC 01/23/00

• Merger will create world’s largest record company. – Sydney Morning Herald 01/24/00
  
  
• Global music powerhouse – Wired 01/24/00

New PBS series looks at the culture of shock in art. But, writes one critic, in choosing to focus on controversies from the past rather than recent issues, the show plays it safe – “safe in its choices of art to illustrate the never-ending conflict between artists and society, between freedom of expression and censorship, between what is conventional and what might lie ahead.” – New York Times 01/23/00

Judge grants injunction against webhosts who have been distributing DVD decryption program that cracks the copy-protection code DVD makers included on their disks. – Wired 01/22/00

There were record revenues last year. So why are movie theater companies leaking red ink and watching their share prices dive for the bottom? Not just too many theaters, but too many big theaters have been built in the past few years – and now there’s a glut. – The Economist 01/21/00

— going through a crisis? – Christian Science Monitor 01/21/00

Move lauded by neighborhood activists is blasted by the radio industry. – Washington Post 01/21/00

• Previously: LOW-POWER REVOLUTION: This morning the Federal Communications Commission votes on whether to allow low-power radio stations. If yes, it will revolutionize the FM radio landscape and thousands of low-wattage new stations could spring up around the country. Existing FM stations oppose the idea. – Washington Post 01/20/00
  
  
• What low-power stations mean to you. – Salon 01/20/00