Line Between News and Entertainment

Line Between News and Entertainment

George StephanopoulosFirst Brian Williams and now George Stephanopoulos. Credibility, or in this case, incredibility, is the Dutch elm disease of network anchors — once it spreads, it’s ferociously damaging and hard to stop“, says The New York Times‘ Alessandra Stanley.

One former ABC News anchor went as far as to suggest that George be suspended…

(New York Times photo by Karsten Moran)

ABC Buyouts Hit NABET

ABC Buyouts Hit NABET

This weeks NABET buyouts affect employees of ABC Daytime as well as ABC News. With last January’s move of All My Children to Disney’s Prospect Studios, this spring’s retrenchment of ABC News, the long ago death of ABC Sports and the continuing trend of automating control rooms – it looks like hard times have come for many union brothers and sisters.

Pretty As A Peacock; The Almost Broadcasting Company

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Pretty As A Peacock; The Almost Broadcasting Company


In an unusual alignment of the moon (currently full) and the rest of the univers(al), it looks like GE and Vivendi have agreed on how much ($5.8 billion) NBCU is worth, paving the way for the media giant’s sale to Comcastic.

abc54Over at the Meatball network, the move backward toward it’s first incarnation, the Almost Broadcasting Company, continues with the confirmation that Mike Shaw, the President of Sales and Marketing will be stepping down from his current role at the end of the year.

As both these events occurred on the same day, I should be saying that media divergence continues, but the first instance is a big fish eating a little fish and the second instance is just what happens when you have a “mature” business. (Just read that as “past it’s prime.”)