December 3rd, 2010 
joel Christine Mankowski has a long history in Erie music and media, as a performer and writer. Under her online pen name, Xtine, she has authored dozens of articles for Yahoo’s Associated Content. Her latest is a discovery of an old Erie radio and TV history quiz.
There’s twenty questions and the answers are at the end. See how much of local electronic media knowledge you have as you ponder the lake-effect outside.
August 6th, 2009 joel Rupert Murdoch wants to try to cancel the free lunch online readers enjoy while eating away at his company’s, News Corp.’s, profits.
As quoted in his paper, the New York Post:
“Quality journalism is not cheap,” he said. “A newspaper that gives away its content is simply cannibalizing its ability to produce good reporting.”
“We intend to charge for all news Web sites,” Murdoch said, referring not only to the online versions of newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The London Sun and The Post, but also to news-related Web sites like those of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. Murdoch added that he expects to begin charging for news content online sometime during this fiscal year.
Murdoch has also lost faith in the ad-supported broadcasting model, and is looking to generate revenue from cable companies and ultimately end users for watching programming from his Fox TV network. Meanwhile, the article mentions that the industry is headed to a showdown between the content creators like News Corp. and the aggregators such as Google and Yahoo! who argue that their services enhances the originating brands.
There are plenty of naysayers out there that claim that only select brands like the Wall Street Journal are successful in charging for content, but there continues to be a dearth of any better ideas that pay for professional journalism.
Posted in New Media 
Tags: Fox, Fox Business Channel, Fox News Channel, Google, New York Post, News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo 
1 Comment » March 1st, 2009 joel 
Surrounded by his family at a hospital in Phoenix, veteran news broadcaster Paul Harvey died Saturday at the age of 90.
Paul Harvey News and Comment has been a staple of America’s radio listening since 1951. His feature the “Rest of the Story” told inside details of famous people since the 1970′s. His program was heard last on WJET 1400.
November 29th, 2008 joel Editor’s note: Sound off, give a shout out on “Deep Background,” our totally-random open discussion of all things Erie media.
Country 98 takes hit for Citadel’s bigger market stations: In Dave Richard’s interview with Citadel/Erie GM Jim Riley published Friday on GoErie.com, Riley was quoted that although revenues are up in Erie over last year at the four-station cluster, they continue to have to cut staff. “We’re part of the company and had to participate in getting costs under control,” Riley said. Therein lays the inherent downside of corporate ownership: even though your division or market is making its nut, you have to suffer for the underperformance of other markets. In Citadel’s case, their larger markets are greatly behind targets, so they proportionately suck more money out of their thriving smaller markets. For Country 98 it means going with a syndicated morning show, Big D and Bubba, and Elly McVay wears the cowboy hat in middays and the biker do-rag for drive time on Z-102. Be watching for some background on Big D & Bubba next week on P&T. Posted in The Feed Tags: Big D & Bubba, CBS, Citadel Broadcasting, Dave Richards, Erie, Erie Times-News, ESPN, GoErie.com, Google, Jeremy Beecher, Jim Riley, Laurel Lane, MSN, NBC, NFL, Tim Dunst, Time Warner Cable, WFXP, WICU, WJET, WQHZ, WSEE, WXTA, Yahoo 1 Comment » November 7th, 2008 joel Editor’s note: Sound off, give a shout out on “Deep Background,” our totally-random open discussion of all things Erie media.
WJET-TV in HDTV: On Wednesday WJET announced that they are now broadcasting High Definition over the air on their 24.1 subchannel. Although currently in low-power, the station says they’ll be full power upon the digital switchover. A quick check of the HDTV tier on Time Warner Cable shows no channel designation for WJET-HD yet. Posted in The Feed Tags: cable news, CBS, Citadel Broadcasting, CNN, Connoisseur Media, Erie, Erie Bayhawks, Fox, Fox News Channel, Google, HDTV, Image Sports Network, MSNBC, NBC, Nexstar, NFL, NFL Network, Radio & Records, Time Warner Cable, WFNN, WJET, WRKT, Yahoo 4 Comments »
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