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All you really need to know about Scripps Networks in one graph
The story of Knoxville’s Scripps Networks (SNI) in one paragraph from the Pot of Gold blog. Kenneth W. Lowe wanted to create a 24-hour TV cable network about rooms in the home for the E.W. Scripps Co. and wanted to do it while Scripps’s was losing nearly $1 million a month in a brutal newspaper war…
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Sick media just the symptom
You often hear editorial types describe the current problem of newspapers and TV as “it’s not an audience problem; it’s a revenue problem.” Maybe, maybe not. That sort of short-circuits the question of whether news, particlarly local news, is economically viable, and if not, how to make it profitable. It also possible the woes of…
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Reading online comments shouldn’t be icky
There’s been a lively discussion about online comments as a result of the APME Online Credibility Roundtable on Comments we held recently in Knoxville. Our excellent Roundtable guests raised many points that others are reacting too. The comment threads are spread across at least three different URLs. You can see the discussion on Knoxviews, on…