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The Golden Globes awards dinner this Sunday will be replaced by a news conference to announce the winners.
The conference will be covered exclusively by NBC News and print reporters, writes The New York Times. The Writers Guild of America West will not lift the picketing threat until it is clear that the event is not going to be an awards show “disguised as a news conference,” says Jeff Hermanson, strike coordinator for the Guild, who added that the Guild is seeking assurance in the form of a written promise from Dick Clark Productions, which usually produces the awards show.
Twenty million people watched the ceremony last year, and estimated ad revenue is between $10 million and $15 million.
The Oscar ceremony, scheduled for Feb. 24 on ABC, is the next big awards show. It is as yet unclear whether the broadcast will be able to go on without a confrontation, assuming the writers strike has not ended by then.
All sectors of the media business will suffer from the weakened economy in 2008 and 2009, with a slump in local advertising particularly hurting newspapers and local TV, according to a new projection from Goldman Sachs.
Broadcast nets will experience…
The New York Times is shuttering its International Herald Tribune site; NYTimes.com will soon host the international news normally reserved for its sister website.
The move is not about cost savings, but rather about growth, NYTimes.com general manager Vivian Schiller…
Unilever’s Vaseline set forth on an unusual research project in a small town in Alaska. Setting up a storefront, the company began giving away free bottles of lotion and asking recipients to name the person who had recommended they come…
Meet the Press, the show hosted by Tim Russert for 17 years before his death last June, is beginning to slip in ratings.
Last month, CBS’s Face the Nation pulled ahead of Meet the Press for the first time in two…
Bloggers collectively create nearly one million blog posts each day, and half of bloggers believe blogs will be a primary source of news and entertainment in the next five years, according to Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report, MarketingCharts writes.…
Wal-Mart and Costco reported same-store gains in September, with sales rising 2.4% and 9% respectively. Sales at Target stores open at least a year fell 3%, writes Retailer Daily.
Below, fiscal results from the discount retail giants:
Sales of food and…
