May 2008 (5)

TV Promos — Web Promos — and online comedy, Will Ferrell STYLE.

The web has a little of everything right, so why not a web site for news promos?  This is really obscure, but the news junkie in me loves this.  It’s called I DO PROMOZ .  It’s an odd assortment of web promos and assorted videos that are express "a passion for television promotion. Producers, editors, […]

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Is Katie Couric Toast? Is Network News Next?

Network News Signing Off? Many Journalists See Uncertain Future For Nightly TV Broadcasts and Fault Current Coverage I missed this article by Carroll Doherty, Associate Director, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press dated April 15, 2008.  Here’s a link to the story I think that what’s next might be some kind of […]

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Alec Baldwin All Time Insult / TV Reviewing

On 60 Minutes tonight, Alec Baldwin was interviewed by Morley Safer about his mouth, his career, his failed marriage with actress Kim Bassinger and the infamous recording of his frightful attack on his daughter.  He was asked about his ex-wife’s lawyer whom he called a “300-pound. homunculus with a face like a clenched fist. ”  […]

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Great Idea – Great Execution – Great Cross Platform Campaign

How do you make an ordinary product memorable?  Tie it to a great idea.   You may have spotted Lincoln Financial Group’s new ad campaign which is basically, Meet Your Future Self.  In the commercial  present selfs meet ‘future selves’ (think Back to the Future).    I found three commercials on YouTube.  The sound is out of […]

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What the Proliferation of Video on News Sites is Telling Us

The quality of video streaming on the web is improving on a weekly basis.  Watching the election results last night was almost like watching live TV.   A few glitches and halts, but on the whole I turned the TV off, yet I felt like I was watching it on my computer.  I bounced around between […]

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