Tag: NBC

  • How to talk your way off air in just 36 years

    Don Imus – the I-Man – is one of American radio’s institutions. Imus in the Morning has been on the air one way or another since 1971. For UK readers, think of John Humphrys with the forty years of reporting replaced by shock-jocking, cocaine and alcohol addiction. Then stick a Stetson on it. That’s Imus.…

  • Content – more burger than king

    I spent yesterday at the BBC in Manchester talking to some interesting people, many of whom want to build businesses providing content of one kind or another. So I gave my gloomy look at the content creation business, pointing to Monday’s supply squeeze at ITN, and Scott Karp’s post on NBC Universal/News Corp deal, and…