“It turns out that a lot of people with digital video recorders are not fast-forwarding and time-shifting as much as advertisers feared. According to new data released today by the Nielsen Company, people who own digital video recorders, or DVRs, still watch, on average, two-thirds of the ads.”
Tag: 02.15.07
Cash-Poor Fisk U May Sell O’Keeffes If…
“The settlement requires Fisk, a storied but cash-poor historically black university, to seek a donation that would allow the school to keep one or both of the paintings, which have each been appraised for $8.5 million. The two paintings comprise over half of the estimated value of the entire Stieglitz Collection. If no donor steps forward within 30 days, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum – which had sued Fisk to stop the sale – will buy ‘Radiator Building’ for $7 million. Fisk could then also sell the Hartley painting, perhaps through auction.”
Ottawa Arts In For A Funding Increase?
“The proposal to increase arts and festival funding by $2.5 million over the next four years would bring municipal funding in Ottawa closer to what other Canadian cities spend. The plan passed easily, but it still needs final approval during budget deliberations at the end of the month.”
Ovation In Deal To Access Triple Its Audience
Ovation, the arts network has made a satellite TV deal that should boost its reach. “Ovation is reaching 5.3 million customers, and the deal with DirecTV will nearly triple that figure.”
TV Producers: Early Season Start For Fears Of Strike?
The Writers Guild contract is up with Hollywood producers October 31, and some producers are already worrying about a strike. “Studios are said to be exploring the feasibility of moving the start of production of returning broadcast series from August to late May or early June, though no formal requests have been made.”
Top Ten Books Of All Time?
A list of 125 top writers’ Top Tens makes the cut. “An unexceptionable list, right? Well, only until you start thinking about it. Critic Sven Birkerts, in his introductory essay, picks up on two oddities: first, only one of the works is by a woman (and she, Mary Ann Evans, used the male pen name of George Eliot); second, only one was written before the 19th century. No Homer, no Dante, no Chaucer. Also no Charles Dickens. Or Jane Austen.”
Seattle Channel Rebrands With The Arts
Seattle’s city government channel rebrands itself with arts programming. The channel will air “12 hours of arts-related programming airing (and live-streaming) from 8 p.m. to midnight Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays” and got a commitment from the city’s cable company to underwrite the effort
Canadian TV Funding In Jeopardy
“The Canadian Television Fund and Canada’s “entire production industry has been thrown into crisis by threats from cable companies Shaw Communications and Vidéotron to pull the funding their licences require them to give to the CTF to help foster Canadian shows. In the 2006-07 fiscal year, $145-million is to come from the cable industry and $120.4-million from federal coffers.”
Acosta In The Air
“The 33-year- old Cuban Carlos Acosta is a principal guest artist with the Royal Ballet in London. Acosta’s art is a combination of physique, discipline, personality and brains. What distinguishes him is a connection to the real world. He is not about repeating old versions of the same role: He is entirely in the moment. Even in tights and on tiptoes, Acosta strives to maintain ties to his roots.”
Elvis In Hawaii
A life-size statue of Elvis Presley is being erected in Hawaii on the 30th anniversary of the singer’s death. “Wearing his iconic bejewelled jumpsuit, the bronze statue will be placed on the site of Presley’s historic 1973 Aloha From Hawaii concert.”