The Media Drop

Rachel over at Media Life Magazine answers a reader when they ask for her advice on how to find a new position in the media industry when they “Want Outta Here” as their name suggests.
You, too, can ask Rachel your career advice questions by writing her at askrachel2004@yahoo.com. No word on whether Rachel’s email […]

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We all know that ratings seemingly rule the roost when it comes to deciding what’s going to be a program that sticks in the prime-time lineup, and which programs walk, or make their way to the summer schedule. The endless Nielsen ratings we hear about are in your USA Today to read and see […]

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In the ongoing series of interviews being put together for The Media Drop, I’ve mainly focused on members of the traditional broadcast media. This time around, I’ve gone in another direction in getting some great Q&A in with Mark Vrieling, CEO of ScreenPlay, Inc., a purveyor of master quality content including over 35,000 music […]

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This morning, I received a copy of Tim Karr’s latest article over at mediachannel.org and just had to write something about it. The article is entitled “A Smear’s Journey to Page One,” and specifically documents the latest headline to make its way in front of all of us, that being the Kerry intern affair […]

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Canada’s Broadcaster magazine wrote last Tuesday that the country’s “largest privately-owned broadcaster”, Standard Radio, will “join with CBC/Radio-Canada and SIRIUS Satellite Radio in a joint venture to bring satellite radio to Canadians.”
According to the article, Sirius’ competitor, XM, already has an application in for a license to broadcast to the Canadian listening public. Interestingly […]

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Cyberjournalist reports [via Romenesko] that Dow Jones Newswires has removed spell check from their tools to be used when writing a piece. No word yet if they’ve requested special versions of MS Word for their writers.
[The Media Drop makes a blatant assumption that Dow Jones uses Windows and Microsoft Office technology, of course]

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CNN (who hasn’t removed pop-ups) is reporting that CBS, fresh off its apology for the Super Bowl fiasco at halftime, has released another mea culpa.
This time, the net is trying to relieve some tension caused after Andre 3000’s Native American-themed performance at the Grammys last week was seen as having “the most disgusting set of […]

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According to BBC News, Microsoft has announced that it is removing pop-up advertisements from its sites across the globe. It’s good to see that they’ve decided to do something which we have all wondered about for a long time. It was surprising to me the first time an MSN-based site had a pop-up […]

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World Magazine’s Ed Veith posts today about the Trio network’s “Feeding the Beast: The 24-Hour News Revolution” feature that premieres tonight.
I’m not sure that I have this channel (it’s in there somewhere, I guess), as Trio points out that DirecTV may have removed it from my programming. If you have Trio, check out […]

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Looking to find out how Instapundit Glenn Reynolds gets his daily fill? Check out this article at Wired for some quality insights.
[via Robert Cox’ The National Debate]

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