Posts with tag RupertMurdoch
Posted Dec 21st 2007 9:02AM by Jay Black
Filed under: Industry, Web, WGA Strike

As the last few hours of our scripted entertainment disappear like canned foods in a fallout shelter, any new entertainment on the horizon is good news (unless, of course, you're talking about ABC's
Duel or the prospect of a
Tonight Show that rises and falls on Jay Leno's wit alone).
Today's offer of putrefied pond water to us thirsty masses is StrikeTV.com. Wired.com
is reporting that after the holidays, the striking writers will use the site to post "videos and other media supporting the strike." It's not much and, when you get right down to it, it's less "entertainment" than "snarky rhetoric," but hey, it's something.
Continue reading StrikeTV.com coming in 2008
Posted Feb 20th 2006 7:13PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: FOX, TV Royalty, Web

While ABC, NBC, and CBS have been quick to offer up shows on their websites and in iTunes, FOX has been mysteriously
silent about the whole
online
video craze. It's surprising, since FOX tends to take more chances and be more cutting-edge than its competitors.
Now we know why. Rupert Murdoch recently
told
Newsweek he's not convinced that putting television shows online is a good idea (I think NBC would
disagree).
Said Murdoch,
"We're not knocked out by iPod so far. We've talked to them, to Google and others. But how many people really want
to get video on a tiny screen when they already have TiVo or a similar service from their cable company or
DirecTV?"
Continue reading Rupert Murdoch doesn't see the benefit of online video