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...ages 8 to 25, the Zvue has a bright color screen and 20 different videos--mostly hip-hop performances, street car races and extreme sports like snowboarding. With videos priced at $15 for a 20minute clip, however, we would like content from more popular names like 50 Cent or ESPN Sports. And transferring your music and videos to the unit is more complicated than it should be. Available now for $99 at zvue.com the Zvue should hit retail stores by April...
...days. However community-building the old big aggregators were (the three networks, Top 40 radio), they also tended to kill idiosyncrasy (with a few hard-fought exceptions like Cash). That cable serves smaller audiences allowed it this year to produce more polarizing--but better--TV: FX's Nip/Tuck, ESPN's Playmakers, HBO's Angels in America. (Though, granted, as the debate over the FCC's media-ownership rules noted, most of the open mouths providing those voices are still connected to the corporate lungs of a few giant media companies.) And if iPod users pick and choose singles rather than...
...sure, there's longer-term concern about Disney's profit machines, ESPN and the Pixar alliance that produced Nemo. ESPN growth may stall as cable operators balk at the 20% annual-fee increases that ESPN has charged over the past several years. Pixar, run by Apple's Steve Jobs, has little incentive to keep giving Disney a full 50% share of the profits from Pixar pictures, along with a distribution fee, in exchange for splitting the costs. Several entertainment companies are offering Pixar more favorable terms than Disney's old deal, and Jobs is said to be getting peeved...
...Sports Talk ESPN's programming chief, Mark Shapiro, is scrambling for higher ratings--and blitzing...
...rated Playmakers. Shapiro insists that the only thing that could kill the program would be high production costs, not Warren Sapp. "There's poetic license taken," Shapiro notes. "To personalize it and claim we are aiming at you is absurd." Now he's taking the NBA to the hoop: ESPN will air an Osbournes-like look at Dennis Rodman's NBA comeback attempt. NASCAR could be next. Shapiro has slated a Dale Earnhardt biopic for the spring. "Name me a great company that doesn't take some risks," Shapiro says. And name a great programmer who has not been fired...