The Media Drop

This morning, word got out that FCC Chairman Michael Powell would be resigning from the commission as early as today. It is curious, as Glenn Fleishman states, why this is happening a day after President Bush was inaugurated for a second term. Fleishman makes some great points about how he may differ […]

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USA Today’s Gary Levin wrote this week about how CBS News was proceeding in their search to replace Dan Rather as nightly news anchor for the network. In the article, Levin includes comments by CBS boss Les Moonves, who discussed the possibility of a multi-anchor format.
“People 30 years old (are) not watching […]

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The Age’s Christian Catalano writes in Friday’s paper that the hit show Desperate Housewives will most likely debut on Australia’s Seven Network sometime in the next few weeks. Catalano states that it is possible that Lost will be shown on the network instead, but if ratings indicators in the U.S. and U.K. are taken […]

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The Khaleej Times has a story Thursday about the need for more press freedoms in the Middle East, as represented by World Association of Newspapers Director General Timothy Balding.
He argued that the main source of news in the Arab world comes from elsewhere — mostly from America. “The Arab Press is left with […]

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The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has details on the reorg that its parent company, the Tribune-Review Publishing Company, made public on Wednesday.
Plans include a consolidation of some of the newsroom, circulation and management functions of five of the company’s six independent newspapers.
It appears that there will be some layoffs, and the “consolidation” will result in copy desks […]

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Over at adland, site member “ernieschenck” points out the formalization of the “I don’t want the swimsuit issue” policy at Sports Illustrated recently. The New York Times‘ Richard Sandomir writes Wednesday that the weekly magazine has recently placed “opt out” messages in two issues. The items contain a telephone number were subscribers can […]

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On Wednesday, Clear Channel Radio named three more radio stations under its belt that would be flipping to a “progressive” talk radio format. Included are Washington D.C.’s WWRC-AM 1260, Detroit’s WXDX-AM 1310 and Cincinnati’s WCKY-AM 1530. Claiming that “listeners across the country are asking for more progressive talk radio,” president and CEO […]

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The Marco Island Sun Times announced this week that they’ve joined the blogging revolution. Or, more specifically, that they have “now unleashed this reality on Marco Island.”
Editor Steve Pritchett points out the paper’s Sun Blog (yes, there’s a pun there), which will be used to offer a little bit of a window […]

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The Register’s Tim Richardson has the details on the merger announcement between Liberty Media International Inc. and UnitedGlobalCom, Inc. UGC, which is more than half-owned by Liberty already, was set to be completely spun off by the company in March of 2004.
Looks like the international plans for Liberty have changed a bit.

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The Orlando Sentinel’s Richard Verrier writes about how Walt Disney Co. president Robert Iger might be just what the company is looking for once current CEO Michael Eisner departs.

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