By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
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Some mornings, reading the Wall Street Journal is just a thrill. Today, the paper went past others and really did a great job of thinking deeper about some of yesterday’s news.
First, a smart piece on Disney’s web strategy and the question, which I completely missed, which was just how much reruns on the web will interfere with the value of syndication.
The funny thing, for me, is that I have already gotten past believing that there is any future for local station syndication, outside of branding like TNT/TBS have done, where a local station runs nothing but comedies and local news and anotehr run nothing but hour-longs and news… basically offering a free answer to the pay cable networks to come.
Second, a nice update on the technologcal move allowing you to watch your computer on your TV. The one thing the piece doesn’t adress is the difference in quality in the files sized for watching on your computer vs the materials you watch on your TV.
Finally, there is a stat in this story that hits home – “The New York Times in yesterday’s editions noted, a bit smugly, that the Daily News had ‘pulled out all the stops.'”
In fact, the Times, a unit of New York Times Co., has actually spilled more ink on the Page Six scandal. As of last night, it had written 10 articles totaling 10,865 words since the news broke, compared with 6,588 words for the News, in seven articles. The story was on the Times’s front page Saturday and Sunday, and the fronts of two sections yesterday.”
Ha.