In the comments below, former TV online exec Rodney Overton also responds to David Carr’s medley of old songs about old newspaper business models in a new world. He warns that newspapers can’t still believe that they own local news because TV web sites “are closing in FAST.” ...

Young Broadcasting, once - but no longer - a forward-thinking TV company, just filed for bankruptcy under the crushing $13 $1-billion debt load. This follows the bankruptcy of cable company Charter and, of course, TV-station-owner Tribune company. And let’s not forget radio giant Clear Channel...

In an interview with the Washington Post, Steve Ballmer goes a bit farther than even I would go killing print. But that’s the problem; that’s the way print people look at it. What he’s really saying is that delivery over IP will have so much greater advantage over delivery via one-...

The signs have been adding up: CBSNews.com did major layoffs and an aggressive retreat from news online. CBS stations made news layoffs aplenty. And now CBS is said to be talking with CNN — again — about outsourcing news to CNN. One imagines a one-woman-thick news operation: Katie Couric...

You know. I know I complain about DC from time to time, but stuff like this is priceless, and it wouldn’t happen anywhere else in quite this way. Captured on my Nokia N95 a few minutes ago:...

“If you defend the status quo when the quo has lost its status, you’re in serious difficulty,” says Sony head Howard Stringer in a panel on the future of mobile. “It’s a most exhilerating time” because it’s all up in the air. A year ago, he says, cable compa...

Link: news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051114/wr_nm/media_timewarner_tv_dc"AOL to launch online TV - Yahoo! News. Well, the move that everyone has been waiting for...someone finally said, the hell with it, let's go ahead and call it Internet TV, and be first out of the gate. Coupled......