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MPAA
Chief and 'E-Publisher' Shout It Out at
Broadcasters Meeting
Film
Monday, February 26, 2001
2:40:32 PM EST
As has been his mode of
late, Motion Picture Association of America CEO
Jack Valenti took the opportunity of a keynote
address at the North American Broadcasters
Association dinner last night to rail against
unusual was the confrontation afterward. Troy Cory,
whose business card bills him as
"ePublisher/Editor" for Television International
Publications, stood up from the media table and
demanded to ask a question after Valenti spoke.
What ensued was a somewhat
rambling discourse on how the MPAA was trying to
kill free speech, destroy Napster founder Shawn
Fanning's years of work, and even put Fanning in
jail. Valenti, who couldn't get a word in edgewise,
eventually invited Cory up to the podium, where he
continued going on; it soon devolved into Valenti
and Cory standing face to face and shouting each
other down.
Valenti suggested Cory
needed medical attention; Cory claimed Valenti was
trying steal entertainment materials that people
rightfully owned. Cory was eventually pulled off
the podium and escorted back to his seat while the
assembled crowd cheered. April 23, 2001 3:32 p.m.
ET
Jack
Valenti Declared:
The following
is an excerpt
of the declaration
that Jack Valenti submitted on behalf of the
recording industry in the case in which members of
the industry are suing Napster. The full
declaration and that of others are available at
http://www.riaa.com/napster_legal.cfm.
The copyright community is
the largest contributor to this nation's economy.
The intellectual property created by these
industries generates over $64 billion annually in
international revenues alone -- more than
automobiles and auto parts, more than aircraft,
more than agriculture. It produces jobs at three
times the annual rate of the American economy as a
whole.
The Copyright Assembly was
formed because its members are deeply concerned
about the future of creative works, particularly in
light of the explosive growth of the Internet. All
of the members of the The Copyright Assembly are
actively embracing new Internet opportunities for
consumers, and are developing new, incentive
business models to deliver our creative works in a
manner that can make them available to consumers
via the Internet. Hundreds of millions of dollars
are now being invested by our members to develop
this new economy. They are all eager to be part of
this revolutionary technology
However, we also worry
lest the great potential, the immense future worth
of the Internet, becomes tangled by overt and
covert piracy of copyrighted material. As
legitimate businesses emerge on the Internet,
illegitimate intruders find the Internet a haven.
Piracy of copyrighted material is already a
multi-billion dollar problem worldwide. For
example, an estimated 38 percent of all software
programs used worldwide in 1998 was pirated, at a
market value of $11 billion and a loss of 109,000
American jobs. And, the economic impact of piracy
stems well beyond the creative industries alone. It
harms economies worldwide in the form of lost jobs
and decreased tax revenues, and by inhibiting
electronic commerce.
- 07
LKIEN GAME DEVELOPER DROPS SUIT AGAINST SIERRA
ON-LINE
- Friday, April 27 01:34
p.m.
-
- J.R.R. Tolkien fans
looking forward to playing the upcoming
online
- role-playing game
based on his Middle Earth characters can get
their
- joysticks warmed with
the news that a lawsuit between the
game's
- producer and developer
disappeared less than a week after it was
filed.
- MM3D announced
Thursday that it withdrew its $10 million
lawsuit against
- Sierra On-Line. "MM3D
is happy to announce that we are dismissing
the
- lawsuit (without
prejudice) on 04/26/01. We are grateful to
Sierra for their
- good faith and for the
efforts they are taking to resolve this
matter,"
- MM3D said in a
statement posted to its Web site. MM3D sued
Sierra in
- Los Angeles Superior
Court on April 20, claiming it breached a
contract to
- create what is being
called "Tolkien Online RPG" by attempting to
force
- developer MM3D to
accept diminished terms and 50 percent cut
in
- revenue from the
project. Plans for the game had been kept secret
until
- the suit revealed the
troubled negotiation.
-
- - - - - - - -
-
-
- SPRINGTIME FOR CLEAR
CHANNEL
- Friday, April 27 10:29
a.m.
-
- Clear Channel, the
largest radio broadcaster in history, revealed
in its
- first-quarter earnings
call Thursday that it has a 20 percent stake in
the
- Broadway smash The
Producers, based on Mel Brooks' 1968 film.
The
- play, starring Matthew
Broderick and Nathan Lane, has been
blessed
- with glowing reviews
and record sales ($6.5 million of tickets sold
in the
- five days after it
opened). But Clear Channel's interest has less
to do
- with an eye for an art
than for long-term strategy. "Please keep in
mind
- that we invest in
Broadway plays to secure that content for
touring," noted
- Lowry Mays, chief
executive officer. Clear Channel Communications
plays
- in the touring space
through its SFX subsidiary. Mays expects
The
- Producers to run on
Broadway for the next several years and go out
on
- tour in two years.
"It's certainly great to have a super hit like
The
- Producers," he said.
The owner of 1,200 U.S. radio stations could
sure
- use a hit. The company
reported a larger loss for the first quarter
of
- 2001, a loss of 53
cents a share, compared to a loss of 12 cents a
share
- in 2000. Analysts'
consensus estimate, according to First
Call/Thompson
- Financial, was a loss
of 45 cents a share.
-
- - - - - - - -
-
-
- FIRESIDE PAYS $2
MILLION FOR A YOGIC WAY OF LIFE
- Thursday, April 26
06:13 p.m.
-
- Simon & Schuster's
Fireside imprint is adding another yogi to its
yoga
- books list -- and this
one came with a $2 million price tag.
Caroline
- Sutton just closed a
two-book deal with Massachusetts-based
yoga
- master Baron Baptiste.
The deal (North American rights only) calls
for
- the books to come out
in hardcover, which means the first one, due
in
- Spring 2002, will be
only the second hardcover the trade
paperback
- publisher will have
released. "We are dedicated to publishing books
in
- the right format,"
says Sutton. The as-yet-untitled first book will
be full of
- four-color
illustrations, but as Sutton points out, it
won't just be a book of
- different poses. It
will also include chapters on motivational
techniques,
- meditation and a
cleansing diet. "It's not just about the
postures,"
- explains Sutton. "We
really see him as more than just the next big
yoga
- guy. It's a whole life
plan."
-
- Baptiste, who writes a
column for Yoga Journal, practices a kind of
power
- yoga that, according
to his Web site, has Helen Hunt cooing, "Doing
yoga
- with Baron has a
profound effect on me physically, mentally
and
- emotionally. It's a
wonderful experience." Thanks to a recent
Time
- magazine cover article
and an Oprah embrace earlier this month,
yoga
- has certainly been on
the mind of Americans lately. And it
probably
- doesn't hurt that
Madonna, Christy Turlington (who has her own
yoga
- book deal with with
Hyperion), Gwyneth Paltrow and various other
stars
- are among its
adherents. But Sutton says that the acquisition
is definitely
- not a matter of
jumping on the bandwagon. "I've had my eye on
Baron
- for a long
time."
-
- - - - - - - -
-
- TOP STORIES ON
INSIDE: April 27, 2001
-
- TIME-SHIFTING
HOLLYWOOD IS CAUGHT UP IN THE
- SUMMER BOX-OFFICE RACE
-- FOR 2002
- With four big summer
pictures slotted, Columbia looks
- like the likely
leader. Spider-Man, Stuart Little 2,
Deeds
- and Men in Black 2
hark back to the Mark Canton
- 'spend-big, win-big'
strategy.
-
- RATINGS REPORT: CBS'S
THURSDAY HITS OUTSHINE
- NBC'S
SUPERSTARS
- Heavy promotion and
big-name guests aren't enough to
- boost 'Must-See'
comedies back ahead of Survivor and
- CSI. Still, ER keeps
NBC first for the opening night of
the
- May sweep.
-
- NEW SALES: SIMON &
SCHUSTER GOES ON A SHOPPING
- SPREE, SNAGS A HOT
YOGI AND BETTE MIDLER
- Nonfiction -- ranging
from yoga to Sudan's 'lost boys' --
- was the first order of
business this week, especially for
- S&S and its
various imprints.
-
- BUSINESS 2.0 TO CLOSE
EUROPEAN OPERATIONS
- Future Network,
publisher of the New Economy mag,
says
- it will lay off 80 in
Europe. Company is reportedly still
in
- talks with a potential
buyer for its U.S. edition.
-
- THE GLOSSIES: VANITY
FAIR PROBES 'THE ROCK'
- In a wide-ranging
interview, George Wayne quizzes the
- WWF superstar about
his penis and his prostate. Plus:
- Ian Frazier dissects
Dubya's 'clueless stare.'
- ///
- 06
HARPER'S BAZAAR'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH ESTEE LAUDER
HEIRESSES
- Thursday, April 26
04:34 p.m.
-
- Move over, Conde Nast:
Hearst proves that it can play
- logrolling-in-our-time
just as well as its corporate rival. Remember
back
- in August, when Conde
Nast's Vanity Fair included a 14-page spread
of
- the latest "It Girls"?
The magazine was asking for trouble; four of
the
- women annointed as
"it" were subsequently outed as members of
the
- Conde Nast family:
Vogue fashion features writer Plum Sykes, Vanity
Fair
- associate fashion
editor Patricia Herrera, Vogue contributing
editor
- Marina Rust and
medical student Samantha Boardman, who has
been
- associated with
editorial director James Truman).
-
- Now it's Harper's
Bazaar's turn. In the May issue of the
magazine,
- Harper's includes a
"Best Dressed 2001" -- photos and profiles of
the
- usual suspects (Kate
Moss, Sofia Coppola), along with Estee
Lauder
- heiresses Aerin and
Jane Lauder. OK, so Aerin, Estee Lauder's
vice
- president of global
advertising, and Jane, executive director of
treatment
- marketing for Clinique
(an Estee Lauder brand), don't work for
Harper's
- Bazaar -- but they're
certainly in the magazine enough. When
editor
- Kate Betts took over
in June 1999, her first issue included a look at
both
- Aerin and Jane's
homes. In August, Betts invited the sisters to
her
- "Women in Power"
luncheon at Alain Ducasse. And for this year's
Golden
- Globes, a Harper's
Bazaar reporter followed Aerin on her social
circuit
- rounds. Add to that
this month's "Best Dressed" feature, and you've
got
- two sisters on
Harper's permanent guest list. The relationship
seems
- more than a little
advertorial, considering that Estee Lauder was
ranked
- 24th among all
magazine advertisers in the year 2000. (And yes
-- of
- course -- Estee Lauder
and Clinique have ads in the magazine's
May
- issue.)
-
- - - - - - - -
-
-
- BLOOMBERG CUTS STAFF
LUNCHES ON EVE OF ELITE BELTWAY BASH
- Thursday, April 26
04:15 p.m.
-
- It seems like
financial-journalism entrepreneur Michael
Bloomberg's
- recent attempt at
belt-tightening is aimed right at his
reporters'
- waistlines. Last
Friday, Bloomberg's Washington, D.C., bureau
dropped
- one of the staff's
favorite perks: daily catered luncheons from
area
- restaurants. Bureau
employees are already reminiscing about
the
- enormous plates of
sandwiches from the Wall Street Deli and the
platters
- of chicken and beef
from the pricey downtown eatery Red Sage that
were
- regularly wheeled into
Bloomberg's National Press Club offices. The
loss
- of free food stands in
stark contrast to the several hundred
thousand
- dollars the potential
New York City Republican mayoral candidate
is
- spending to host
Washington's most exclusive -- and excessive --
White
- House Correspondents'
Dinner after-party this Saturday. The A-list
gala
- attracts movie stars,
celebrity pundits, high-powered politicians
and
- plenty of
gate-crashers, all eager to drink Bloomberg's
top-shelf booze
- and eat from a spread
that in the past has included a Russian vodka
and
- caviar room, a full
sushi bar and table after table laden with
rare
- cheeses, smoked salmon
and lamb chops. "It's ancient Rome,"
recalls
- one of last year's
partygoers. Bloomberg spokeswoman Chris Taylor
says
- the catered lunches
were never meant to be a daily perk and that
they
- are being eliminated
because the bureau is overcrowded. "It has
nothing
- to do with economics,"
says Taylor. "We still have plenty of free
food."
- Indeed, the bureau
(like all Bloomberg offices) has available
to
- employees a snack bar
that puts many gas station mini-marts to
shame.
- Still, some staffers
say the move is clearly financial. "We're
talking about
- a lot of money here,"
notes one reporter.
-
- - - - - - - -
-
-
- TEXAS PAPERS LOSE OUT
WITH BUSH IN WASHINGTON
- Thursday, April 26
10:56 a.m.
-
- President George W.
Bush seems confident that he doesn't need to
worry
- about Texas's
electoral votes in 2004. In what local reporters
say is a
- pattern, Bush this
week snubbed the Texas press, canceling a
planned sit
- down with reporters
and editors from the five Texas metro dailies --
The
- Dallas Morning-News,
The Houston Chronicle, The San
Antonio
- Express-News, The
Austin American-Statesman and The Fort
Worth
- Star-Telegram -- on
the occasion of his first 100 days in office.
The
- group interview,
initially scheduled for Friday, was going to
come after
- individual meetings
with The New York Times, The Washington Post
and
- the networks -- all of
which went off without a hitch. The canned
meeting
- is reminiscent of an
earlier pledge to the Longhorn press that Team
Bush
- quickly broke: back in
1999, Bush promised that when he
formally
- announced his
candidacy, he'd give the scoop to home-state
scribes.
- Within weeks, Bush
political strategist Karl Rove had served up
the
- exclusive to The
Times.
-
- - - - - - - -
-
-
- WIN A TRIP TO PAUL
THEROUX'S HAWAII
- Thursday, April 26
10:17 a.m.
-
- Paul Theroux's novels,
while sophisticated and successful, are
rarely
- considered a day at
the beach. But an unusual publicity campaign for
his
- forthcoming title from
Houghton Mifflin, Hotel Honolulu, is pitching
it
- exactly that way for
readers. To promote the May publication,
"a
- down-at-the-heels
tourist place on a back street two blocks from
the
- beach at Waikiki,
where middle America stays and dreams,"
according to
- the cover flap,
Houghton is offering a "Win a Trip to Paul
Theroux's
- Hawaii" sweepstakes.
Like so many free Bally's gym
membership
- giveaways blanketing
the front windows of Wal-Mart, the
cardboard
- displays will be in
bookstores nationwide the second week in
May.
- Readers simply have to
mail in an entry form for the six-day,
five-night
- trip for two to
Hawaii. (No purchase necessary, of course.)
Theroux
- himself, a sometimes
resident of Hawaii, will provide a sight-seeing
tour
- and lunch at Waikiki
Beach. "This is the extension of publicity --
publicity
- plus," says
uber-publicist Lynn Goldberg, who was not
involved in the
- project. Though rare
for such events to target consumers
instead
- booksellers, it's not
the first time a major publisher took such a
tack. In
- 1999, Houghton offered
readers a trip to New Zealand where
Peter
- Jackson was filming
his trilogy The Lord of the Rings based on
J.R.R.
- Tolkien's stories
about Middle Earth. The publisher is planning a
similar
- sweepstakes this fall
in conjunction with its Best American series.
"We
- asked, 'What's the
quintessential American event?'"
Houghton
- spokesperson Lori
Glazer said. "We'll have a grand-prize trip to
the 2002
- superbowl in New
Orleans."
-
- - - - - - - -
-
-
- WEAKEST LINK LADY SAYS
LET'S MAKE A DEAL WITH NAL
- Wednesday, April 25
05:46 p.m.
-
- She may be an unfit
mother and the newly anointed Most
Despised
- Woman on TV, but Anne
Robinson knows how to strike when the iron
is
- hot. Although Robinson
and her show, The Weakest Link, are barely
two
- weeks old in the
United States, New American Library/Dutton has
just
- picked up Robinson's
autobiography, Memoirs of an Unfit Mother, for
a
- considerable
six-figures. As Inside reported last week, the
book had
- already sold in the
U.K. to Little, Brown UK, and agent Ed Victor
had
- reportedly turned down
a $500,000 offer from one unnamed
stateside
- publisher. Robinson's
editorial and marketing team may want to
take
- extra precautions on
this project -- or risk being on the receiving
end of,
- "You ARE the weakest
link. Goodbye."
-
- - - - - - - -
-
- TOP STORIES ON
INSIDE: April 26, 2001
-
- FACING ALLEGATIONS HE
LED A MASSACRE, KERREY
- QUICKLY GOT CONTROL OF
THE STORY
- Through careful leaks
to journalists he knew, the former
- Senator managed to
scoop the reporter who spent two
- years tracking the
Vietnam War story and irritate the
New
- York Times and 60
Minutes II in the process.
-
- PROFESSOR WITHDRAWS
ANALYSIS OF ANTI-PIRACY
- TECHNOLOGIES AFTER
THREATS FROM RECORDING
- INDUSTRY
- Edward Felten says he
was under fire from the labels, the
- Secure Digital Music
Initiative and a manufacturer of one
- of the digital
watermarks in question. RIAA denies that
it
- was planning to sue.
- Digital Copyright:
Full Coverage
-
- STUDY FINDS NUMBER OF
NAPSTER USERS DOWN 20
- PERCENT
- Since it began to
comply with court-ordered restriction
of
- copyrighted songs, the
song-swapper lost 3 million users.
-
- SF CHRONICLE'S
BRONSTEIN IS OUT TO REDEEM THE
- REPUTATION OF BAY AREA
JOURNALISM
- In a time of shrinking
budgets and hiring freezes across
- the newspaper
industry, the new editor talks to
Inside
- about his expansive
plans for a daily that San
Franciscans
- 'deserve.'
-
- RATINGS REPORT: EVEN
RERUN EPISODE CAN'T SLOW
- ABC'S MY WIFE &
KIDS
- Strong new Damon
Wayans comedy repeats well for ABC,
- while Boot Camp
remains solid for Fox.
- ///
- 05
-DON'T O-PEN YOUR MOUTH: WINFREY'S WRITERS MUST
SUBMIT TO
- STRICT GAG
ORDER
- Wednesday, April 25
03:24 p.m.
-
- For a talk-show host,
Oprah Winfrey isn't always so keen on free
speech.
- Writers who want to
hop on the juggernaut at O, The Oprah Magazine
best
- be prepared to don a
gag for life concerning the franchise. The
following
- clause is included in
current writers' contracts at the mag: "During
your
- business relationship
with Hearst, and thereafter, to the fullest
extent
- permitted by law, you
are obligated to keep confidential and
never
- disclose, use,
misappropriate, or confirm or deny the veracity
of, any
- statement or comment
concerning Oprah Winfrey, 'O, The
Oprah
- Magazine,' any of Ms.
Winfrey's businesses or any of her/its
Confidential
- Information. The
phrase 'Confidential Information,' as used in
this policy,
- includes but is not
limited to, any and all information which is
not
- generally known to the
public, related to or concerning: (i) Ms.
Winfrey
- and/or her business or
private life; (ii) the affiliates, employees
or
- contractors; and/or
(iii) the employment practices or policies
applicable to
- its employees and/or
contractors for O, The Oprah Magazine..." A
legal
- expert hired by Inside
suggests that it all boils down to this: Share
the
- joy, spread the love,
but let your gums flap once about Oprah and we
will
- respond with a nail
gun to your soft tissues.
-
- - - - - - - -
-
-
- TEMP'S LUCKY DAY AFTER
AILES IS WOWED BY HER FORECASTING
- ACUMEN
- Wednesday, April 25
11:43 a.m.
-
- Landing an on-air spot
is one of the hardest gigs in journalism.
Unless, of
- course, your name is
Ginger. On Monday, Ginger Williams was
a
- Manhattan temp; she
got a call that Fox News needed someone for
the
- day. Little did she
know that Fox & Friends producer Matt
Singerman
- planned to have
whomever showed up do the 9 a.m. weather
on-air.
- Williams's day only
get better when she was told that Fox News
president
- Roger Ailes had seen
her on-camera debut and was dutifully
impressed.
- "His reaction was
pretty positive," Singerman said. "We got her
resume
- and set up a meeting."
-
- - - - - - - -
-
-
- FEED MAKES READERS A
BIGGER PART OF ITS MENU
- Wednesday, April 25
10:54 a.m.
-
- Overshadowed for most
of its life by Slate and Salon, Feed has
been
- perhaps the
quintessential Web 'zine, run by erudite editors
who gladly
- publish semi-esoteric
essays and ask readers to go along for the
ride.
- That formula changed a
bit Tuesday, when the site unveiled a
major
- tweak to its recent
redesign that puts the readers firmly in charge.
Literally
- shoving aside the top
story of the day, Feed's new message
board
- (dubbed "The Filter")
now dominates the front page. Links to
stories
- outside the site, plus
the discussions they kick up, will help bulk up
Feed's
- daily offerings, while
every Feed-written story will have a filter
attached
- directly to it as
well. The Filter's technology is provided by
Plastic.com,
- Feed's sister
community site in the Automatic Media family
(Inside.com is
- also affiliated with
Plastic). But doesn't begging the readers for
help lead
- to lazy publishing? "I
suppose it's a temptation for publishers," says
Feed
- co-editor in chief
Stefanie Syman. But, she adds, it's nice to know
the
- readers can fend for
themselves. "I don't feel now that if I don't
get
- something up every two
hours, the site goes dead. There's activity
up
- there that goes above
and beyond the actual work."
-
- - - - - - - -
-
-
- MORE LINKS ON NBC AND
PAX
- Tuesday, April 24
08:26 p.m.
-
- If you aren't yet sick
of acerbic Brit Anne Robinson's eerily
addictive
- "goodbye" catch
phrase, you'll get your chance. NBC announced
today that
- the network has picked
up 13 additional episodes of The Weakest Link
to
- be aired this summer.
The prime-time game show has given life to
the
- Monday time period
where the network was barely breathing. In
addition
- to the 26 Link
episodes NBC has banked (pun intended), it is
likely that
- tomorrow PAX TV will
announce plans to air a second run of the trivia
show
- as soon as this
summer. The move wouldn't be much of a surprise
since
- PAX head Jeff Sagansky
was the link between the BBC program and NBC.
-
- - - - - - - -
-
-
- A FRESH START FOR BOTH
MCGRAW AND LEVIN AT SIMON &
SCHUSTER
- Tuesday, April 24
05:34 p.m.
-
- Phillip C. McGraw
(that's Dr. Phil to his Oprah-loving friends)
isn't the only
- one making the move
from Hyperion to Simon & Schuster this week,
as
- the New York Daily
News reported on Tuesday. Martha Levin, who left
her
- job as vice president
and publisher of Hyperion to step in as
publisher of
- S & S's Free Press
group when Bill Shinker resigned earlier this
month,
- officially started her
tenure there this Monday. Of course, it's
purely
- coincidental, says
Carolyn Reidy, president of Simon & Schuster
Adult
- Publishing Group, who
points out that the McGraw package was in
the
- works long before
Levin was a glimmer in Viacom-owned S & S's
eye.
-
- World rights for the
books were acquired by Dominick Anfusco,
vice
- president and senior
editor at S & S, for the new Simon &
Schuster Source
- imprint, and the
four-book deal indicates that McGraw will be
with the
- publisher for a good,
long while.
-
- This is the second big
score in as many weeks for Source, which
recently
- paid $4 million for
two books by Cheryl Richardson, an
Oprah-annointed
- "life coach."
-
- Self Matters: Creating
Your Life from the Inside Out is the first book
on deck
- and will be available
in hardcover in fall 2001. According to Reidy,
it builds
- on the ideas in
McGraw's previous books, Life Strategies and
Relationship
- Rescue. Trade
paperback versions of all of the new titles will
be published
- by S & S's
Fireside imprint, which also published Life
Strategies for Teens,
- written by McGraw's
twenty-year-old son, Jay. This is quite the
family
- affair.
-
- TOP STORIES ON
INSIDE: April 25, 2001
-
- RATINGS REPORT: CHAINS
OF LOVE HAS NO LOCK ON
- VIEWERS
- Racy reality series is
proving to be a weak link for UPN,
- while All Souls scares
more people with its ratings than
its
- spooky
plotlines.
-
- BY PICKING ON
ACADEMICS, RECORD INDUSTRY PLAYS
- THE BAD GUY -- AT THE
WORST POSSIBLE TIME
- Just as an appeals
court is about to weigh the
- constitutionality of
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
a
- lawyer for the labels
uses the controversial act to try to
- stop some professors
from publishing. And it was all a
- bluff.
- Digital Copyright:
Full Coverage
-
- NEW YORK
TIMES/MACNEIL-LEHRER TV SHOW STALLED
- AT THE GATE FOR LACK
OF FUNDING
- Debut of Arthur
Sulzberger Jr.'s pet project -- a
nightly
- news program called
National Edition -- is postponed
- pending white-knight
underwriters. Will oil giant be one
of
- them?
-
- FONTANA: CLUTTERING
THE TV SCREEN WITH PROMOS
- FOR WHAT COMES
NEXT
- By jamming shows with
teases and network logos, viewers
- are being distracted
from what's on the air. Or is that
the
- point?
-
- PANTHEON PAYS OVER
$500,000 FOR EX-SEC CHAIRMAN
- ARTHUR LEVITT'S
INVESTMENT GUIDE
- While better known as
a literary house, the Bertelsmann
- imprint takes on an
advice book for the little guy from
the
- big enforcer of stock
trading regulations.
-
- NETWORKS HUNKER DOWN
FOR WORST-CASE
- SCENARIO: FOX LEADS
WITH OVER 100 HOURS OF
- STRIKE-PROOF
PRIME-TIME SHOWS
- As writers' and
actors' contract deadlines loom, a
TVtracker
- report details the
extent of stockpiling and posthaste
- reality-show
production. Dick Wolf has a very full
la
- ///
-
- BLOCKBUSTER,
NO, ENRON, TALKS VOD AT NAB
- Tuesday, April 24
03:05 p.m.
-
- Only six weeks ago,
Blockbuster and Enron dissolved their 20-year
video
- on demand (VOD)
partnership under a cloud of acrimony. It
was
- surprising, then, to
see Blockbuster vice-president of new media
Steve
- Pantelick listed as a
panelist for a program on audio and video
first
- movers here at NAB
today. Of course, the audience was even
more
- surprised when instead
of Pantelick, they got Bradford Brooks of
Enron
- Broadband Services,
the group within the energy giant working on its
now
- stand-alone on-demand
ventures. Before begining his
presentation,
- Brooks tackled the
confusion in the air head-on: "Obviously, we did
have
- a breakup. We had
different corporate objectives." Brooks said no
more
- about the collapse of
the deal (including Blockbuster's accusation
that
- Enron's network had
security holes), nor did he explain exactly why
the
- speaker switch had
been made, other than the obvious reasons.
-
- - - - - - - -
-
-
- NATIONAL REVIEW EDITOR
PRACTICES LESS-THAN-FULL DISCLOSURE
- Tuesday, April 24
11:46 a.m.
-
- Richard Lowry, the
preternaturally boyish editor of the National
Review, is
- one of the best
chroniclers of the political scene. Just ask him
and he'll
- tell you as much. In a
recent issue of his magazine, Lowry reviews two
new
- books on the
post-election imbroglio: Jake Tapper's Down and
Dirty and
- the E.J. Dionne and
William Kristol-edited Bush v. Gore, a
collection of
- legal opinions and
commentary. Lowry writes that the commentary
in
- particular "stand(s)
up well as an account of the 'outside story' in
Florida."
- Indeed. Lowry himself
has one piece in Bush v. Gore, and his writers
have
- three more -- a little
tidbit that doesn't make it into his review.
Not
- surprisingly, Tapper's
work doesn't fare as well. "Since Tapper
never
- acknowledges that any
issue joined in Florida was more profound
than
- Gore's and Bush's
attempts to maneuver their way to victory, all
his
- reporting makes for a
less compelling account of the controversy
than
- Kristol and Dionne's
collection of reprints," Lowry writes. Next
time, Tapper
- should make sure to
include some of Rich's own wisdom.
-
- - - - - - - -
-
-
- TED KOPPEL SINGS HIS
HEART OUT
- Tuesday, April 24
10:54 a.m.
-
- Ted Koppel was
inducted into the National Association of
Broadcasters
- Hall of Fame on
Monday, treating the audience to an acceptance
speech
- that resembled a
Catskills audition. First, the normally
somber-faced
- Nightline host told an
elaborate knee-slapper about famous writers
who
- decline awards for
being great American authors, using the story to
openly
- question why he was
deserving of the NAB honor. Then he noted that
ABC
- is the only major
broadcast network to remain in the NAB -- all
the others
- have dropped out. "It
was down to me and (Sam) Donaldson
anyways,"
- he quipped. After that
he sang two songs: one about the Great Wall
of
- China (to the tune of
"You're a Grand Old Flag") and then, with
audience
- backing, a number in
which he thanked the Ayatollah Khomeini
for
- helping to launch
Nightline. Are 21 years of late-night broadcasts
finally
- taking their toll?
-
- - - - - - - -
-
-
- YOUNG LIONS AWARD
DANIELEWSKI
- Tuesday, April 24
10:13 a.m.
-
- While the elders of
the publishing business supped at Lincoln Center
for
- the annual PEN dinner,
the new generation was awarding and
partying
- thirty blocks south.
The first annual Young Lions Fiction
Awards,
- established by the New
York Public Library, gave out its first
awards
- Monday night at the
42nd street branch. The winner of the
35-and-under
- literary achievement
prize: Mark Z. Danielewski, for his novel House
of
- Leaves. The members of
the Young Lions committee behind the awards
--
- actor and published
novelist Ethan Hawke, writer Rick Moody and
William
- Morris head Jennifer
Rudolph Walsh -- were on hand to host the
evening.
- After Moody explained
that the motivation behind the award (which
carries
- a $10,000 cash prize)
is to "attempt to provide gratification to
young,
- talented writers,"
many of whom labor away at day jobs while
working on
- their novels, Hawke
and his wife Uma Thurman (who really does exude
a
- casual elegance) took
turns reading excerpts from each nominated
work.
- All of the nominated
writers made it to the event - Darin Strauss
(Chang
- and Eng), Myla
Goldberg (Bee Season), Heidi Julavits (The
Mineral Palace),
- David Ebershoff (The
Danish Girl), Akhil Sharma (The Obedient Father)
and
- of course Danielewski.
Runners up each received a leather- bound copy
of
- his or her book, made
possible by the William Morris Agency.
Meanwhile,
- back at PEN, jailed
Iranian Publisher Shahla Lahiji and Uzbek
novelist
- Mamadali Mahmudov
received PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to
Write
- Awards. There's no
cash prize involved here, of course, but
history
- suggests the two might
win something even more valuable. Two
previous
- recipients of this
particular award have been freed from prison.
-
- TOP STORIES ON
INSIDE: April 24, 2001
-
- AT TIME INC., 15 YEARS
OF SERVICE AND 50 YEARS OF
- AGE GETS YOU A BUYOUT
OFFER
- In a post-merger hunt
for savings, the publishing division
- of AOL Time Warner
offers an enhanced pension to old
- hands. Some young guns
may also get a piece of the
- action.
-
- NETWORKS HUNKER DOWN
FOR WORST-CASE
- SCENARIO: FOX LEADS
WITH OVER 100 HOURS OF
- STRIKE-PROOF
PRIME-TIME SHOWS
- As writers' and
actors' contract deadlines loom, a
TVtracker
- report details the
full extent of stockpiling and
posthaste
- reality-show
production. Dick Wolf has a very full
larder.
-
- RATINGS BULLETIN:
WEAKEST LINK HOLDS IT TOGETHER
- IN WEEK
TWO
- The nasty game show
continues to build its audience
- through the hour while
bringing NBC big time-period
- increases.
Insult-wielding Robinson seems to turn
older
- viewers off, but 18-49
results shoot up. UPDATE
-
- VIACOM POSTS RECORD
REVENUES AND SMALL LOSS
- It says 1st-quarter
revenues and cash flow are improved
- from a year ago but
that charges from its purchase of
CBS
- led to a
loss.
-
- MURDOCH REPLACES
EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK POST
- WITH VETERAN
JOURNALIST FROM DOWN UNDER
- Xana Antunes, in the
job since 1999, is said to have
- resigned for personal
reasons, clearing the way for the
- editor in chief of
Sydney's Daily Telegraph.
-
- TECHNOLOGY
TIMES OUT ON PRINCE
- Monday, April 23 02:40
p.m.
-
- As previously reported
in Inside, Prince may have found a way to
connect
- to his audience -- and
his audience's pocketbooks -- online via his
NPG
- Music Club. But last
week his customized application for
downloading
- stopped working
(apparently Apple timed out a test version of
its
- QuickTime software
without informing the Purple One). So over
the
- weekend
npgmusicclub.com gave up on the customization
entirely. Now
- members log in to the
Web site and download directly. Five more
music
- files appeared over
the weekend, too, although one of them,
"The
- Work," was dropped to
Napster a week earlier.
-
-
-
- A LICENSE TO END ALL
DIGITAL-MUSIC LICENSES
- Monday, April 23 11:32
a.m.
-
- With the battling over
digital-music distribution and royalties still
at a
- fever pitch, the
online legal activists at The Electronic
Frontier
- Foundation are
promoting what they call a middle-of-the-road
solution.
- On Saturday at the New
York Music & Internet Expo, EFF introduced
an
- "open audio license,"
an electronic text tag inserted into the digital
code
- of a song that
provides information about the song's author,
contact
- information and
copyright policies. If an artist uses the new
(O) tag, it
- basically gives music
listeners an automatic permission slip to do
some
- of the things that
normally require the express written consent of
the
- copyright holder, such
as copying and distributing music on
Napster,
- performing or
broadcasting the works in public royalty free
and adapting
- the music for
sampling.
-
- With the contact
information embedded in the songs, users
are
- encouraged to send
artists payment on their own. It's the
digital
- equivalent of the
Grateful Dead approach to letting fans tape and
swap
- music in order to help
their concerts sell-outs. The EFF hopes this
new
- alternative to the
royalty and permission system fosters the spread
of
- music across the Net,
without the need to trouble lawyers. But with
such a
- system, would
musicians even need copyright at all? "No lawyer
would
- ever tell someone to
give up copyright," says Robin Gross, attorney
for
- the EFF, who says that
the system still can protect artists from
having
- their music pirated by
rivals who could then claim copyright protection
for
- it. Taking a page from
Napster, the EFF wants to collect songs from
artists
- using the open audio
license, which the group would then host on its
Web
- site.
-
-
- TOP
STORIES ON INSIDE: April 23, 2001
-
- MURDOCH GOES STRAIGHT
TO GENERAL MOTORS CEO IN
- EFFORT TO BUY
DIRECTV
- Stymied by the
satellite TV provider's management,
News
- Corp.'s chairman heads
to Detroit to plead his case with
- its parent
company.
-
- YAHOO BROADCAST, THE
WEB EXPERIMENT IN TV-LIKE
- PROGRAMMING, STARTS
TODAY
- Just in time for the
NAB convention, the popular portal
- brings a multichannel
universe to your desk, and new
- revenue streams to its
business. But will you watch video
- on your computer and
will your boss mind if you do?
-
- THE GLOSSIES: ALL YOUR
RATE BASE ARE BELONG TO US
- ... and other
runners-up in the re-rename Smart
- Business: Technology
at Work contest, not to mention the
- winner. Plus: Yet
another David takes on Dave Eggers.
-
- NBC GETS VIEWERS TO
PONY UP FOR GRACE'S SHIRT
- Combining product
placement and e-commerce, the
- network pushes a
T-shirt seen on Will & Grace
through
- Polo.com -- a Web site
it co-owns with Ralph Lauren.
-
- NEW SALES: SOME
SERIOUS FICTION AND A
- JET-SETTER'S SURVIVAL
GUIDE
- Donadio & Olson's
Ira Silverberg sold three books last
- week, and FSG did a
lot of buying (from him and others).
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