Sam Schechner, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on May 27, 2011 at 9:44 am PT
Fewer young people watched TV on traditional sets over the past television season, the second consecutive year of decline as viewers face a proliferation of ways to watch TV shows.
Ina Fried in Mobile on April 7, 2011 at 2:25 pm PT
The Finnish phone giant has its debt rating cut amid concerns over the financial impact of its declining cell phone share and an uncertain transition to Windows Phone-based devices.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on February 8, 2011 at 2:54 pm PT
Katie looks at Tello, a new website and mobile app that encourages users to chime in on their customer-service experiences, good or bad.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 2, 2011 at 1:31 pm PT
Myspace’s time with News Corp. is coming to an end.
Then again, it’s been headed that way for quite some time–it’s just that News Corp. is now being that much more forthright about it.
John Paczkowski in News on November 10, 2010 at 9:48 am PT
More good press for the MacBook Air. Consumer Reports updated its computer ratings earlier this week to include the machine, and while it had some criticisms, it ranked the 11-inch Air and its 13-inch sibling at the top of their respective categories and gave both machines a “recommended” rating.
Kara Swisher in News on October 20, 2010 at 12:34 am PT
It’s a smackdown of chit-chatting ladies, as CBS’s “The Talk” debuted this week, in an attempt to grab audience from the powerhouse daytime ABC talk show “The View.”
It’ll be hard, since those are some tough women on “The View,” which recently was in the spotlight after Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walked off the set in the middle of a segment with Fox News cable pundit Bill O’Reilly, after he impugned Muslims.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 18, 2010 at 8:14 am PT
Consumer Reports’ odd love/kinda-love relationship with the iPhone continues: If you ignore its advice and buy the iPhone 4, the buying guide has a $10 app it would like to sell you.
Kara Swisher in News on September 28, 2010 at 7:31 pm PT
Yahoo and Electus, the multiplatform content studio headed by former NBC entertainment head Ben Silverman, debuted its first original, branded entertainment programming tonight with “Ready, Set, Dance!”
The site, which is now live on Yahoo Music and sponsored by State Farm, merges the candid-camera phenomenon with reality television and “aims to tap into the pop culture interest in television dance shows and dance videos on the Web….”
The site is relatively spare right now, with only one episode, titled “Magic Sparkle Chunk and Frisky Ris.”
Suzanne Vranica, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 23, 2010 at 12:51 pm PT
Nielsen Co. is working on a service that would offer advertisers and Web publishers a new stream of data to improve audience measurement for online advertising, a move that may bring more ad dollars to the sector.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 22, 2010 at 8:35 am PT
NBC knows its problems are larger than its late-night talk-show lineup. That said, if you haven’t seen Conan O’Brien’s latest insult of his soon-to-be-former employers, you really should.
