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Media Crack
TV Guide Provokes Cry of 'Criminy'
In your finally Friday media column: TV Guide wants ads on its cover, Journalism students wake up, Twitter has awards, and old folks will soon be (more) confused: More »
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feuds
TV Guide Takes Active Steps To Imagine A World Without 'Bromance'
Back when everyone in America was doing coke and playing Galaga, TV Guide was the only game in town for television schedules. Now, we all have set-top boxes, and TV Guide is pissed. More » -
layoffs
Layoffs At Forbes, TV Guide
Not surprisingly at all, there are serious media layoffs today. TV Guide is laying off "up to 33 people," or 3% of its total staff. Also, Forbes—which cut chunks of its online staff last week—is laying off dozens of staffers as it merges its print and online operations into one. Read the full memo at Valleywag.
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Comment by Mymoustache: With regard to print media, it will soon be shorter to report on who is still employed. 3 Responses | Other threads
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charlie sheen
Discuss: Charlie Sheen Makes $800,000 Per Episode of 'Two and a Half Men'
For vivid proof of the weakening dollar, look no further that the annual salary survey in the forthcoming issue of TV Guide: After two years of slumming alongside the likes of Zach Braff and seeing everyone from William Petersen ($600,000 per episode) to the Simpsons cast (each $400,000 per episode) pass him by, Charlie Sheen has reclaimed his spot at the top of the prime-time cash heap, earning $800,000 per 30-minute episode of Two and a Half Men. Granted, it's not seven-figure Friends money (which Sheen originally asked for in negotiations back in 2006), but we still think it bears repeating: Charlie Sheen makes $800,000 per episode of Two and a Half Men. Join us in getting our heads around it (and a few other hot-ticket raises) after the jump. More » -
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TV Guide Would Like Some Good News
One more thing that the good people who run TV Guide have to worry about: Henry Yuen, the company's former CEO, is now officially a fugitive. He was charged with obstruction of justice last week for destroying documents that the SEC requested (in relation to an earlier conviction for securities fraud, natch), but he failed to turn himself in. New owner Macrovision is already preoccupied with trying to sell the print magazine to rescue the entire enterprise from death, so they certainly could do without the headache of answering new questions about Yuen, who was fired in 2002. Luckily for them, this story is far too esoteric for TV outlets to cover. [Mediapost via Jossip]
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Comment by famousauthor: I don't care who's going to jail. I just want to know what's on channel 7 tonite. more » | Other threads
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magazines
Can We Interest You In A TV Guide?
TV Guide, one of America's biggest magazines, was sold a few days ago. Now it's for sale again! Well, not the parts of the brand that have some actual value (the website and the cable program guides and on-demand technology). Rather, new owner Macrovision is looking for a sharp business entity that would like to take the print magazine off of its hands. Cheaply, no doubt! And to the skeptics who might say that buying the money-losing print version of TV Guide without the accompanying web brand would be like buying a cow without milk, consider this: the new editor is looking to achieve "topicality and newsiness, urgency." By doing things like reviewing YouTube videos! More »
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Comment by Greasy Thumb Guzik: @famousauthor: Ole Walt got $3 billion out of Murdoch for it & look what Rupert, Gemstar & Macrovision have done... more » | Other threads
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in memoriam
The Death Agony Of America's Biggest Magazine
The death of the quintessential TV listings magazine is a shabby affair. The rumor we floated yesterday—that editor-in-chief Ian Birch and other staff are being laid off—appears indeed to be true. The new owners, Macrovision, is thought only interested in the TV Guide's online and electronic program guides; the print edition is loss-making and may be shut down if a buyer can't be found, according to Deadline Hollywood. The magazine—which could not cope with the proliferation of programming in the 1980s and 1990s and further lost relevance when viewers began to use the program guides supplied by their cable provider—will not be mourned. But let's at least pay some respect to its history. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by foolinthepool: The format was always a little too busy for the way my brain works, but it makes me sad anyway... more » | Other threads
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rumormonger
TV Guide
Anyone have news on the bloodshed at TV Guide in the wake of the merger of its parent company? We're hearing editor-in-chief Ian Birch, executive editor Steve Sonsky and managing editor Lois Draegin have all been dismissed from the TV listings magazine, but no confirmation. Email tips.
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By Nick DentonComment by Greasy Thumb Guzik: @JuneBuggy: Only a 3 million circ? I remember when TV Guide sold 17 million a week! Which was of course before Murdoch... more » | Other threads
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media bubble
Media Bubble: Even Without Trains, There Is Still Media
• Bush summoned Sulzberger and Keller to Washington earlier this month in a last-ditch attempt to get them not to run the domestic-spying story, reports Jon Alter. [Newsweek] More » -
tv guide
TV Guide Conveniently Hands Out Pink Slips
On Tuesday, it was reported that girly celeb-ish television rag Inside TV was folding so that its publisher, Gemstar, could focus on the company's "considerable core assets." Gemstar also publishes TV Guide, but apparently that mag isn't included in the core assets: we hear that the company cut 6 staffers (running the gamut in position) from the struggling television bible on the same day as the Inside TV bloodbath. More » -
inside tv
'Inside TV,' Out
TV Guide, as we all know, is dying. No on needs a weekly magazine of TV listings any longer. Solution? As of April, it was: Launch Inside TV, a woman-oriented celebrity-ish mag. More »
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By JesseComment by Perez Hilton: Nobody cared enough about this magazine to leave a single, sad comment? Not even a disgruntled soon-to-be former employee? How... more » | Other threads
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maureen dowd
Media Bubble: Please Go Away, Maureen
• Are Men Necessary? is "a very odd, occasionally entertaining mish-mash of politics and sex, biology and Cosmopolitan-ology, gravity and wit, insight and carelessness." We don't care what it is; we'd just like to stop hearing about it. [NYO] More » -
media bubble
Media Bubble: It's Better to Live in the City Where You're Editing the Editorial Page. Who Knew?
• Michael Kinsley likely to stop running Los Angeles Times editorial page. Displaying his legendarily razor-sharp analytic skills, Kinsley says: "This living in Seattle and editing the editorial page is not an ideal arrangement." [NYT] More »
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