[TV orNotTV] Popularity by Geography

2016-12-28 Thread Adam Bowie
I found these charts from the NY Times pretty interesting. They've looked at the Facebook likes of people and analysed them by zip-code through the US, and then mapped 50 different shows by re

[TV orNotTV] News Sells? WaPo Increases News Room Jobs

2016-12-28 Thread PGage
Politico has a story today (I was made hip to it by the now invaluable Dan Rather FB Page) that the Washington Post is adding more than 60 newsroom jobs to start 2017 - an 8% increase. They are also adding "product" specialists (I gather this means people who place WaPo stories on various mass medi

[TV orNotTV] JonBenet's Brother Sues CBS $750M Over Special Saying He Killed Her

2016-12-28 Thread Mark Jeffries
Burke Ramsey is including in his suit along with CBS production company Critical Control (the former TV division of Relativity Media until that studio filed for bankruptcy--it mostly produces reality shows) and the seven investigators on the panel of experts in the hybrid dama and documentary f

Re: [TV orNotTV] JonBenet's Brother Sues CBS $750M Over Special Saying He Killed Her

2016-12-28 Thread Tom Wolper
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Mark Jeffries wrote: > Burke Ramsey is including in his suit along with CBS production company > Critical Control (the former TV division of Relativity Media until that > studio filed for bankruptcy--it mostly produces reality shows) and the > seven investigators

Re: [TV orNotTV] JonBenet's Brother Sues CBS $750M Over Special Saying He Killed Her

2016-12-28 Thread Kevin M.
How much did NBC pay out to the guy they accused of being Atlanta's Olympic Park bombing? On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 8:20 PM Tom Wolper wrote: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Mark Jeffries > wrote: > > Burke Ramsey is including in his suit along with CBS production company > Critical Control (

Re: [TV orNotTV] News Sells? WaPo Increases News Room Jobs

2016-12-28 Thread Kevin M.
News outlets always see an infusion of cash during an election year, as more people at least pretend to take an interest. It looks to me like WaPo is spending as much as they can before the end of the year, when their budget becomes a pumpkin again. On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 11:27 AM PGage wrote:

Re: [TV orNotTV] JonBenet's Brother Sues CBS $750M Over Special Saying He Killed Her

2016-12-28 Thread Tom Wolper
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > How much did NBC pay out to the guy they accused of being Atlanta's > Olympic Park bombing? > A settlement is not out of the question. Media companies carry lawsuit insurance and if the insurer says to settle, CBS will, even if they feel they h

Re: [TV orNotTV] News Sells? WaPo Increases News Room Jobs

2016-12-28 Thread PGage
Maybe its just that - though this is coming up of the 2017 budget, and adding that many salaried journalism jobs would be a pretty rash response to a cyclical bump. The claim in the Politico article is that this is something else - an intentional strategy of investing in news gathering by Bezos, an

Re: [TV orNotTV] JonBenet's Brother Sues CBS $750M Over Special Saying He Killed Her

2016-12-28 Thread PGage
Reportedly, $500,000 in 1997 ( http://www.cnn.com/US/9701/28/richard.jewell/index.html) - about $750,000 in 2016 money. NBC never admitted any wrongdoing, and Brokaw still thinks he reported the story right. NBC settled in part to avoid having to name sources in deposition or open court. On W