The Media Drop

The Washington Post’s Patricia Sullivan is reporting this morning that Art Buchwald, a longtime syndicated columnist, died on Wednesday of kidney failure. He was 81.

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Just days after announcing that it had hit the 6 million subscriber mark, Sirius Satellite Radio has paid Howard Stern $83 million in stock after the subscriber numbers well exceeded estimates for year-end 2006.
As a Sirius subscriber, I’m really not surprised to see the growth in the space, for them or XM. They’ve definitely proven […]

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The answer to that question, at least so far, is no.
Over the weekend, the first four episodes, plus about 15 minutes of the fifth episode, of the upcoming sixth season of FOX’s hit show “24,” were available for download, for free, on torrents. For those of you not in the know, essentially what that means […]

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In case you haven’t noticed already, or you’re wondering what’s up, Los Angeles’ KKBT-FM, “The Beat,” has been changed to KRBV-FM, “V100, the Best Variety of R&B,” reports Radio Ink. This change has also brought a new on-air lineup including a local morning show rather than a syndicated show featuring Tom Joyner.

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Wednesday heralded some bad news for editorial staffers at the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Associated Press reports, as 71 employees were laid off, effective January 17.
As we see more and more of these layoffs showing up, I’m wondering if it will herald the start of new daily publications of some note in these marketplaces, as […]

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In case you hadn’t already seen it, Boing Boing posted Wednesday about how Thrasher magazine had put its first 12 issues online for all to view. Yep, from way back in 1981. V. cool.

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Well, I’ve gotta say. Spending almost two weeks in places where Internet wasn’t exactly prevalent was quite interesting. Also, North Dakota is very flat, at least the Eastern portion of it. Just thought you should know.
Back from the dead here, and should be back on track and reinvigorated for the ‘07. Wishing everyone a Happy […]

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