PLEASANTVILLE – So I am reading Peter Canning’s biography of Dewitt and Lila Acheson Wallace, American Dreamers, and seeing how the Wallaces affected so many lives positively, not only with what they accomplished in their philanthropy, but how their philosophy helped shape America at a critical time. I also wasMORE HERE
GOOCHLAND, VA – There aren’t too many drive-ins left, but some thrive. We can think specifically of Hull’s Drive In of Lexington, Virginia, where a community comes together summer nights to watch movies in their car. Hull’s almost closed, but the community rallied round, and saved the theater. There areMORE HERE
Magazine Publishers Need to Encourage Keep-able Magazines As a magazine lover, I want to keep magazines. I hate to throw them away, even when reality hits and I realize that I can’t save them any longer. I cringe when I see libraries de-accession precious bound volumes of magazines, though IMORE HERE
Clicks are not only destructive of the brand, all they do is help advertisers to beat down the price of advertising. In addition, it causes content to go for the lowest common denominator. “We are telling advertisers,” he said, “the worse content, the more you should pay.” MORE HERE
PAWTUCKET, R.I., and SILVER SPRING, Md. – Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE: HAS) and Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) will join to turn Discovery Kids into a new cable network. The most interesting point? They mention that Romper Room, a brand Hasbro dropped years ago, will be revived on the TVMORE HERE
Yes, the do-gooding clay duo of UHF television days are still around, courtesy of Nashville-based publishing company Tommy Nelson. Davey and Goliath were produced by Art Clokey, the animator responsible for Gumby on behalf of the Lutheran Church. They appeared on local stations around the U.S. in the 1970s, andMORE HERE
What’s America’s greatest contribution to world culture? It’s our music. And luckily, much of that African American music part of the heritage is alive, in museums and sites across the U.S. Here are some of the top music labels associated with African-American music. We know there are more (think BlackMORE HERE
Sad day for soap fans. Sad day for Springfield. The classic CBS soap opera Guiding Light has been canceled by CBS. First started in radio, it apparently began on NBC radio in January 1937 and moved to CBS television in 1952. It apparently will end its run in September, andMORE HERE
Montréal -Want to brand your radio network? Use an audio signature. Much like NBC’s famous G-E-C notes, the Canadian media company Astral Media has created a new set of audio signatures for all of its AM and FM stations. To create the notes, they hired the California company Musikvergnuegen, theMORE HERE
LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLORIDA – “Who owns the data?” That was the big question for Facebook sales executive Tom Arrix on Feb. 23 while he was on stage at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Annual Meeting in Orlando. The “data” they were referring to was the user content collected by FacebookMORE HERE