Archives: December 2007

Steve Florio, 1949-2007

Posted by: Jon Fine on December 28, Categories: Steve Florio

A publishing executive warned me yesterday that Steve Florio, the iconic former CEO of Conde Nast Publications, was even more ill than had been previously reported. Today I awoke, switched...

Gone Fishing

Posted by: Jon Fine on December 11, Categories:

I'm on vacation until just after Christmas. While I'm away, posting frequency will range from very light to nonexistent. Enjoy your holidays!...

Led Zeppelin Reunites, Leading To Totemic Moment In Targeted Advertising

Posted by: Jon Fine on December 11, Categories: Advertising: Egregious, Led Zeppelin

As you may have heard, Led Zeppelin played a one-off reunion show in London last night. And, like any good rock fan, I clicked on the video link on this...

The Rich Zannino Scorecard

Posted by: Jon Fine on December 06, Categories: Dow Jones, News Corp., Rich Zannino, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal

Took over as CEO of Dow Jones: Feb, 2006. Date of Departure from Dow Jones: upon the completion of the News Corp. acqusition of Dow Jones. (Read: soon.) Financial Results,...

More Discouraging News About Newspapers

Posted by: Jon Fine on December 06, Categories: McClatchy, Newspaper Agonistes

Yesterday a bunch of newspaper companies gave presentations to investors at an annual confab sponsored by UBS. The news, as you might expect, was not particularly heartening, but perhaps the...

The Continuing Saga Of Anyone Being Able To Do Video On The Web

Posted by: Jon Fine on December 05, Categories: Google, New York Times, News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, Web Video

Andy Plesser from beet.tv came by late last week to film a quick segment bouncing off my media predictions for 2008. And it looks a little bit like this, at...

Radio: Proudly Giving Listeners More Of Less!

Posted by: Jon Fine on December 03, Categories: Radio

The New York Times’ Jeff Leeds had another excellent music biz state-of-the-moment piece, in Saturday’s paper, concerning how major commercial radio stations are playing fewer songs more frequently....