The Media Drop

Pat O’Brien is reportedly out the door at “The Insider.”
Rafat Ali is all over the story about Ziff Davis hitting the Chapter 11 button.
TiVo beat estimates of analysts, getting closer and closer to profitability, it believes.
Want to buy the Weather Channel? Others are bidding, why not you?
Nick Douglas says a few words about why “big […]

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Just got an email this morning from TiVo stating that its “TiVo Rewards” program, the one that gives you points for referring others to TiVo and using a TiVo credit card, is ending as of May 28th.

How many TiVos can you recommend in the next 90 days, huh?

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Further making me want to shoot myself in the head is the quote Gruber pulled from an article on Techdirt, about TiVo vs. a video-on-demand product.
If you guessed $2.4 billion for the value of Getty Images’ archive, you win!
Romenesko notes the WaPo’s latest style changes. “Gay” is now in, “illegal aliens” are now “illegal immigrants.” […]

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Of interest from my RSS reader on 11/27:

Gothamist shares some details on Star, formerly of Power 105, Hot 97, and a number of other places, apparently getting another radio DJ gig in NYC
Wizbang’s Jim Addison points out that top Democrats plan to honor the picket lines at the upcoming Democratic Presidential debate, set for December […]

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