Archive - Apr 6, 2007 | Digital Media Wire

Weekend Read: Entourage Aiming for HBO’s Top Spot

Authored by Scott Goldberg on April 6, 2007 - 2:24pm.

Sunday night marks the beginning of an interesting time in HBO’s history. Its most successful show, The Sopranos, will debut the first episode of the final season, and Entourage, a guy’s answer to Sex and the City, will follow. And while the end of The Sopranos is a bittersweet event for fans, for HBO it’s a cause for concern. The Sopranos, synonymous with HBO’s image as a content-creating powerhouse, will retire, essentially leaving the cable network without its Hall-of-Fame quarterback.

If eBay's Media Exchange Flops, What Does it Mean For the Networks and Google?

Authored by Jay Baage on April 6, 2007 - 1:54pm.

Cable TV networks like Turner Networks, Discovery, Lifetime and ESPN have decided to boycott an online exchange designed by eBay to sell advertising time, according to the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau, a trade group in New York. Without the participation of cable networks, the eBay exchange will have no air time to sell to advertisers. This poses a crucial question for media executives to ponder, if at all, companies like Google will be able to penetrate offline media such as print, radio, and television?

Career Moves: April 6, 2007

Authored by dmw on April 6, 2007 - 12:43pm.

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Tina Fey on 30 Rock

Authored by Scott Goldberg on April 6, 2007 - 10:25am.

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Subtle Line on NBC’s 30 Rock Speaks Volumes about 08 Presidential Race

Authored by Scott Goldberg on April 6, 2007 - 10:23am.

It came and went fast enough to warrant nothing more than a smile, but the line stuck well past the delivery. Tina Fey, in the role of Liz Lemon on her NBC hit comedy 30 Rock, dropped one of the most icy, brilliant bits of commentary the 2008 presidential race has seen yet. Confessing her many shortcomings to the character played by Jason Sudeikis (of Saturday Night Live), Ms. Lemon said, “There is an 80% chance in the next election that I will tell all my friends I am voting for Barack Obama, but I will secretly vote for John McCain.”