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INTERNET BECOMES SOAP BOX FOR SNL COMMENTS May 9 Studio Briefing
Producers of NBC's Saturday Night Live are giving political satire, long a staple of the show, a home of its own on the Internet. Broadcasting & Cable reported on its website today (Friday) that NBC plans to gather a plethora of SNL sketches together to form a site where visitors can view performances by their favorite impersonators of politicians -- and the guest appearances of the politicians themselves. The site will also reportedly include interactive elements, allowing, for example, visitors to vote -- not for the candidates but for the SNL performers playing them. It was not clear whether the site is intended to be permanent or whether it will exist only through the duration of this year's election campaign.

Strategy Analytics: Global Online Advertising Revenues Soared 32% To $47.5bn in 2007 Apr 2 Broadcast Newsroom
According to Strategy Analytics' latest research, global expenditure on online advertising rose by nearly a third to $47.5 billion in 2007 and is set to pass the $100 billion mark by 2012. The report, "Online Advertising: Global Market Forecast,"
Deadline Hollywood Apr 2 LA Weekly
After longtime United Talent Agency client Kate Bosworth let the agency know she was leaving, the rumor mill heated up because of Vince Vaughn’s recent exit and former UTA partner Marc Korman’s jump to Endeavor. Competitors swirled rumors that UTA’s talent department is “falling apart” because of a “toxic atmosphere.”
YouTube can help small movies Apr 3 Movie Marketing Madness
Yes, it’s a completely self-serving soundbite on the part of the YouTube exec who uttered it, but that doesn’t make this quote, buried in a story on how YouTube has helped Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show, any less true:
Surprise! Internet helps niche films Apr 3 Movie Marketing Madness
“It is possible to exploit the power of the Internet to sell a movie without a theatrical release — as long as you have a title targeted at a narrow niche.”
Streaming Media To Draw $70 Billion In Revenue Before 2014 Apr 3 InformationWeek
Streaming video and music will generate $70 billion in revenue overt the next six years, according to a research report released Monday. The Insight Research reported that content streamed over the Internet, IPTV networks, and mobile handsets will increase revenue through content and networks.

Tyler Perry's Reunion With the Box Office Feb 26 ComingSoon.net
Madea's Family Reunion #1 with over $30 mil.
ITunes reaches billion download milestone Feb 25 HollywoodReporter.com
Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store has passed the 1 billion-download mark, less than three years after it launched and just days before a planned press event where the company will unveil new consumer products. The milestone was reached when Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Mich., downloaded Coldplay's "Speed of Sound." He received a 20-inch iMac, 10 iPods and a $10,000 gift card good for any item or song on the iTunes Music Store.

Dove Web TV puts Huffman into the past Feb 25 HollywoodReporter.com
Felicity Huffman is starring in a series of Dove webisodes directed by Penny Marshall that transport the Oscar-nominated actress into the homes of beloved TV moms Carol Brady, Lily Munster and June Cleaver.

AD AGENCY TRIES TO BEAT TIVO AT ITS OWN GAME Feb 24 Studio Briefing
Bedeviled by digital video recorders that permit users to skip commercials, the Foote Cone & Belding advertising agency has developed a new commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken that targets DVR users. A message is hidden in the new spot -- which can only be seen by DVR users who play it back in slow motion --
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Small-film hits with big-studio roots Feb 26 International Herald Tribune
"The Internet has created a universe of niches, and I think that audiences are clearly saying that they don't like being treated as all part of the same group," said Peter Dekom, an attorney and co- author of "Not on My Watch: Hollywood vs. The Future." "Niche films are defining the industry, and I love it.
Secrets to making successful films: go outside the box Feb 25 Monsters and Critics.com
"Timing wise, we were also up against another 'tiny' film coming out a few days after us called ‘King Kong,’ so we really had to compete for space around the other films that season," Candelaria chuckled.
Talent Agency ICM to Launch Branding Division Feb 25 Backstage.com
ICM said Thursday that it is launching a global branded entertainment division headed by Weinstein Co. promotions and consumer products veteran Lori Sale.
Verizon, Disney Team on TV Feb 24 Red Herring
With the explosion of distribution options for video content, traditional carriers such as Verizon and cable operators such as Comcast have been casting about for the right mix of traditional TV and broadband video to satisfy users’ changing demands.
Top 10 most popular brands online Feb 7 Netimperative Marketing
Top 10 most popular brands by Web pages viewed per person, according to research firm Nielsen//Netratings.
Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media Plan Next Installment of the ... Feb 6 Magical Mountain
Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, in collaboration with Academy Award(R)-nominated director Andrew Adamson, have begun pre-production on "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," the next big screen installment of the "Narnia" Chronicles, and the follow-up to the international blockbuster,
Ever more channels, ever faster / TV, Web move closer yet, using a telephone line Feb 6 San Francisco Chronicle
IPTV uses the same kind of technology that delivers high-speed Internet service to the computer. That opens the door to a host of new, untapped features, such as more interactivity and the potential for thousands, as opposed to hundreds, of channels.
Movie revenue up, attendance down Jan 29 Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
The resounding thud that sounded when King Kong fell off the Empire State Building in mid-December was a fitting way to sum up the movie industry's year in 2005.
Web sites build buzz for Hollywood movies Jan 28 eTaiwan News
"The Net is definitely pushing the buzz faster than print these days," says veteran Hollywood journalist Jeffrey Wells, whose Web site Hollywood-Elsewhere.com is in the vanguard of the Internet movie chatter - "The first thing I go to every morning," says Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday.
AOL Plans Nationwide Broadband Expansion Jan 27 TechWeb via Yahoo! News
America Online Inc. on Friday said it would soon expand its broadband network coast-to-coast through partnerships with service providers, including BellSouth, Time Warner Cable, Verizon and others.
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