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  • UFC Fighting for Mainstream Acceptance

    But big media and the general public are not coming around so quickly.

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    Daniel Frankel
    UFC Fighting for Mainstream Acceptance

  • New Consensus: People Will Pay for Quality Content

    A consensus is emerging among the leaders of the digital media industry, and it’s an encouraging thing.   At conferences — which seem to have spread like some upper class disease across the land (when does anyone do work anymore?) — in Palo Alto venture capital conversations, around the pools in Malibu…a light seems to…

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  • Will ESPN Ban Conan Over Peephole Joke, Too?

    In New York, the Erin Andrews’ peephole story just won’t go away, even when it comes off the front page. Yesterday, ESPN announced a wholesale ban on New York Post reporters from appearing across its shows after the paper ran stills from the now-infamous video of the sideline reporter nude in a hotel room. "While…

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  • Hypocrisy and That Erin Andrews Peephole Video

    ESPN sideline reporter gets victimized twice, first by “a perv-cam-wielding sicko” and then by the media reporting on the sicko’s actions

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    Hypocrisy and That Erin Andrews Peephole Video

  • Not Everyone Lives in a TiVo/YouTube World

    D-day — June 12, 2009. Last Friday was the day when the remainder of the nation’s 1,700 analog television stations shut down in the long-promised changeover to digital broadcasting.   Cable and satellite viewers — or those whose TV has a digital tuner — were still able to watch “American Idol,” “CSI” and “Heroes,” unaware…

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    Kent Youngblood