The Media Drop

Reuters reports that CNBC and two leading radio networks are chasing Al Sharpton to get him on the air in multiple areas, including a syndicated talk show and as a contributor to CNBC’s current offerings.
[via Drudge Report]

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The New York Post picks up a Reuters article about how the father of Princess Diana’s boyfriend, Mohamed al Fayed, has filed a lawsuit against the network for the images they showed last week of the car that al Fayed and the Princess were killed in.

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Just read about the advent of E-Auction-Air, a new radio show coming out of 1370 AM in Austin, Texas. The radio show is hosted by Michael Donahue and Bill Crawford, both Austin residents. Mr. Donahue is a “Powerseller” on eBay, and brings his business experience together with Mr. Crawford’s media skills to form […]

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Okay, howabout they “turned the dial” instead… Jeff Jarvis points out that a radio station in San Diego went from 1st to 27th after dropping Howard Stern from the airwaves. And the statistic that blows them all away: men 18 years and older used to be a 20.6 rating on the station. […]

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Lost Remote’s Steve Safran leads us to a USA Today article detailing how local network affiliates might someday soon be able to ditch programming they feel is too risque and show their own stuff. Great. Just what everyone needs. Random programming changes based on what the local affiliate boss feels that the […]

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Bill McCabe foists upon us a meme that I just couldn’t ignore. “What movies did you like when you saw them but have no particular desire to ever watch again?”
Where do I start?
I really liked Along Came A Spider but it’s like the Grisham movies - you see it so you can say “the […]

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Thanks to Romenesko for pointing out what’s going to happen on this Friday night’s “Nightline” on ABC. According to the folks at TV Barn, Ted Koppel will read names of the men and women who have given their lives in the war in Iraq. Koppel does note, however, that he is “not going […]

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CNET.com’s Dinesh C. Sharma reports that AOL has added new features to its “Journals” service, including HTML editing and remote posting capabilities.

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Radley Balko posts about an article his dad sent him about how intelligence and law enforcement people are starting to track blogs (as Radley states, I think the same - you mean they haven’t been all this time?) as sources of information. Citizens’ journalism strikes again!

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Thanks to Instapundit for pointing out the article that William Booth of the Washington Post wrote last weekend about something that web surfers have known for years - that marketing through this channel grants a level of “word of mouth” that is beyond anyone’s expectations.
The examples that Mr. Booth covers are a website […]

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