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Thompson's new plan reduces staffing (23,000 before the new round of cuts) and budgets but leaves the range of activities pretty much intact. There's a constant tension between the BBC's aim of making what Byford calls "brilliant, outstanding, special, standout content" and the need to justify its existence by attracting mass audiences, which, as Fox Television has proved, tend to gather at the bottom of the taste pyramid. Consider the huge popularity of reality TV, which is cheap to produce and capable of provoking controversy that hooks big audiences. Controversy is, of course, hard to control...
...mystery user downloaded an average of 55,000 documents per day, according to Lydia Petersen, a content manager for HBS’s Baker Library. The user retrieved the documents at a rate as high as four per second, which led Factiva and library officials to believe that an automated script controlled the downloads. The use of such a script is prohibited by Factiva...
...There is no particularly good alternative to Factiva,” Petersen said. “Content in LexisNexis Academic is quite limited, certainly when you get to the corporate world...
...producer, explaining how the networks and studios negotiated contacts with limited residual payments for new media. “We learned a lesson back then because we made a mistake. We did not calculate correctly the impact technology would have.” Today, however, the point of contention between writers and the AMPTP is the profit seen from downloaded and streaming versions of digital content.“Whenever they develop a new wave of doing business, they try to do it non-union, and try to do it by paying as little as possible to everybody...
...this is about to change. Arbitron is officially entering the 21st century and revolutionizing the ratings game with the introduction of a pager-like device called the Portable People Meter (PPM). The PPM supposedly “detects inaudible codes embedded in the audio portion of media and entertainment content delivered by broadcasters, content providers, and distributors.” The beeper-like devices are said to be more accurate, easier to use, and, according to the tech gurus at Time magazine, are one of the best inventions of the year.Despite the hype, PPMs are far from a perfect system...