MSNBC SIGNS OLBERMAN FOR 4 MORE YEARS
It’s not that he gets the highest ratings there… obviously the motivation for the contract was Bush Derangement Syndrome.

NORTH DAKOTA HOUSE REJECTS BILL TO HONOR BONO
This is going to severely limit North Dakota’s credibility on the worldwide stage.
FCC PUSHING TO REGULATE VIOLENCE LIKE IT DOES INDECENCY
Inscrutably. By the [...]

The anti-DRM express train kept a-rollin’… judy a few weeks after Steve Job’s knock you over with a feather pronouncement that DRM is a bad thing and he wishes he could be rid of it, comes a Jupiter Research study in which European music executives overwhelmingly say that DRM is a bad thing and they [...]

Box Office Weekly #054 (MP3 - 14.2 MB - 21 min)
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In todays show: Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller crank up a money printing machine… The Grammy Awards succeeds in the ratings, despite having no copywrite protection … and in my commentary: I review a show you may never see, and you may be grateful. [...]

See that guy out in the middle of the grey lunar landscape, wearing a space suit and planting a flag? Once he’s done, he’s swinging by the front office, picking up his final paycheck and catching a shuttle home.
MTV announced yesterday that they’re going to cut costs by dropping 250 jobs from their US division. [...]

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It looks like three major awards shows yesterday, all of them as irrelevant as those which preceded and those which will follow.
First up, The Grammies. Music is an especially subjective form, so picking a “best” of it is literally impossible if your audience is more than, say, you. And I think I can distance myself [...]

RYAN O’NEAL ARRESTED IN DOMESTIC DISPUTE
Sorry… Ryan who?
STEVE JOBS ASKS MUSIC COMPANIES TO REMOVE DRM REQUIREMENTS
In exchange, he promises to give up the rights to the phrase “insanely great.”
AUTOPSY TO BE PERFORMED ON ANNA NICHOLE SMITH
Coroners expect to find hidden fabulousness.
JUDGE FREEZES O.J. SIMPSON BOOK ADVANCE FUNDS
O.J. argues, “If I had already spent [...]

Last week the Sony corporate earnings came out and we learned that they had a great year, unless you count the Playstation game console which sucked a huge amount of profit away. Well, NewsCorp, the Fox umbrella company, had a great year. Thanks to Borat and LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, film revenues were up 41%.
Oh, yeah, [...]

Box Office Weekly #053 (MP3 - 13.6 MB - 20 min)
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In todays show: the box office is dominated by women and children … Jeff Zucker rises to save NBC - just kidding! No one can save NBC … And in my commentary, the Superbowl and I don’t even pass each other on the street. [...]

Yesterday, when the Podcast Network servers were down, Steve Jobs did a little blogging. A little background here - Apple is under increasing pressure from the European courts to open up the standards of his iTunes/iPod system, to Apple Store-purchased music to play on, say, Zunes. That is, if anyone had any Zunes.
I’d love to, [...]