NBC Network News Goes VJ
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4F-gYjYU5Y&rel=1]] I am, of course, sorry they did not go with us, but as NBC starts running these ads, it would seem the ‘theoretical’ part of our conversation is now officially over.
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Thanks, Steve! A little more than a year ago, Steve Safran, of Lost Remote fame (and now I hear heading out on his own), suggested that I start a blog. I had no idea how to do this, so...
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[Youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HblwE0Opgfc&rel=1]] Foot Patrol by Raul Gallego Abellan. On March 3-4 we will conduct what I hope will be the world’s largest global VJ conference, DNA2008 in Brussels. As part of that conference, we will award our annual VJ Prize...
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Just think….. It is hard to believe, but we are now preparing for the 25th anniversary reunion of my class at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. People I have not heard from in, oh, 25 years, are beginning...
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If you don’t get ratings, you don’t survive…. Saturday morning, Silver Spring Maryland and Eliza Booth, Head of Marketing is talking to the Travel Academy Class about how marketing and programming weaves together. There aren’t too many people in...
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Matt Gould explains what the network wants… If you are production company, you know the hard part is not coming up with ideas. Everyone has great ideas for new TV shows. The hard part is not even producing them....
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Get out of the way!!!! In 1821, George Stephenson, the ‘father of railways’ build the world’s first commercially viable steam railway between Darlington and Stockton-on-Tees, a distance of 14 miles. The train was not fast, It took nearly two...
Read moreA Question from the newspaper folks
“That is so true. I just had a reporter say to me: “I used to know what I was doing when I left the newsroom. I had a pen behind my ear and a notebook in my pocket. But...
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USING VJ SKILLS TO PILOT NEW SHOWS NBC’s Jeff Zucker just made the (to my mind) unusual announcement that henceforth NBC would not longer engage in piloting. This strikes me as a bit strange. I guess when you spend...
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