Mediagazer: Viacom Ad Gains Canceled Out By Lower Home Video Sales (David Kaplan/paidContent)

3:35 PM ET, February 3, 2011

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Jon Stewart's Hulu Price Tag: At Least $40 Million — Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were two of Hulu's biggest draws until they left the video site last March. And it will cost Hulu at least $40 million to get them back. — That's according to people familiar with the new deal …

Discussion: paidContent, New York Times, Mediaweek, rbr.com, VentureBeat, Lost Remote, TVNewser, Company Town, Gothamist, The Wire, Electronista and CNET News, more at Techmeme »

Jason Kilar / Hulu Blog:

Stewart, Colbert, and Hulu's thoughts about the future of TV — We are extremely happy to announce a broad content agreement between Viacom and Hulu that brings The Daily Show and The Colbert Report back to Hulu and now also to Hulu Plus, beginning this morning.

Henry Blodget / The Wire: Hulu CEO Jason Kilar Infuriates TV Bosses/Partners With Unapproved …

Hollywood Reporter: Hulu, Viacom Announce Content Partnership

Waxy.org:

The Daily: Indexed — Anybody else think it's weird that The Daily, News Corp's new iPad-only magazine, posts almost every article to their official website... but with no index of the articles to be found? They spent $30M on it, but apparently forgot a homepage! — So I went ahead and made one for them!

Discussion: CJR, Mediaite, New York Observer, Bits, Runnin' Scared, MacGazette.net, MacStories, Chris Houchens, Audience Development Blogs RSS, TheMediaBriefing, Fimoculous, the Econsultancy blog, Lost Remote, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“Serendipity and surprise”: How will engagement work for The Daily? — All of us here at the Lab watched the unveiling of The Daily (even those of us who are on a beach sipping umbrella drinks). — But there was something that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch said that seems significant now that the genie is out of the bottle.

Discussion: Poynter, The Next Web, The Huffington Post, tag me with a spoon and Future of Journalism

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Fake, unofficial Daily Tumblrs terrorize Murdoch's iPad pub

Discussion: TechCrunch, USA Today and Fimoculous

Rex Hammock / Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com:
The Daily isn't as bad as Virgin's Project

Discussion: Media Nation, Gannett Blog, contentious.com, GigaOM, Editors Weblog, Product Reviews, bookforum.com and magCulture.com/blog

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Who is The Daily trying to reach? What problem is it trying to solve?

Discussion: Poynter, Magtastic Blogsplosion, Garcia Media, CJR, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Daring Fireball, SAI, Company Town, Nieman Journalism Lab, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Daily and Innovation in College Media

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Daily economics — I have not seen News Corp's Daily …

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Quarterly Income Fell 26% for The New York Times Co. — Reflecting a slow advertising recovery across the newspaper industry, The New York Times Company reported on Thursday a 26.2 percent drop in net income in the fourth quarter from the period a year before.

Discussion: Guardian, The New York Times Company, Gawker, The Wrap, FishbowlNY, Poynter and Media Buyer Planner

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
New York Times will release paywall details in ‘near future’

Discussion: Poynter

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

MTV UK Tries Charging For Online Catch-Up TV — If you thought that pay-per-view online catch-up TV had been replaced by the free, ad-supported model, think again - MTV has launched a dedicated UK VOD portal, MTV OD, costing £1 ($1.61) a day or £2 ($3.24) a week.

Discussion: The Next Web, Pocket-lint and WatchingTV Online

Kunur Patel / AdAge:

Apple, Campbell's Say iAds Twice as Effective as TV — A Nielsen Study Shows iPhone Users Are Paying Attention, While TV Viewers Not so Much — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It's been seven months since the first iAds — Apple's bid to reinvent mobile advertising — started popping up on iPhones and iPods …

Discussion: TechCrunch, iLounge and Fortune

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Journalists under physical assault in Egypt — Supporters of President Hosni Mubarak have begun violently attacking journalists reporting on the streets of Cairo today, a shift in tactics from recent media censorship, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.

Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:

Appeals Court: free Internet porn isn't unfair competition to pay sites — One day in March of 2009, the proprietors of Redtube.com were minding their own business, streaming free pornographic videos to the public, when they received notice of a lawsuit against them in the mail.

Discussion: Techland, Indecision Forever and The Daily Caller

Joe Grimm / Poynter:

Ongo.com CEO: Centralized subscription removes ‘high frustration walls’ between readers & news — Some early observers of Ongo.com may be missing the point. — The subscription site, which launched Jan. 25, is intent on being a great “personal news experience.”

Discussion: paidContent

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Medill and McCormick launch a news innovation lab with $4.2 million in Knight funding — In 2009, while announcing that year's Knight News Challenge winners at a conference at MIT, Knight Foundation president Alberto Ibargüen mentioned the foundation's desire to launch “test kitchens” …

Discussion: Tower Ticker, Knight Foundation News … and KnightBlog

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Viacom Ad Gains Canceled Out By Lower Home Video Sales — Viacom's cable properties benefitted from the advertising recovery of the past year, but lower DVD sales erased any of its gains in the last quarter. The poor earnings performance comes a day after its MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) …

Discussion: Mediaweek

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Storify Gets Funding From Khosla Ventures to Reinvent Media Online — Storify, a San Francisco-based startup that launched a social-media aggregation service for journalists last fall, announced today that it has closed a $2-million Series A round of funding from Khosla Ventures …

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Dominic Rushe / Guardian:

News Corp sees profits rise — News Corp chief refuses to talk about issue at press launch for the Daily, and misses quarterly reports Q&A — Rupert Murdoch dodged questions about the widening phone-hacking scandal yesterday. The chairman and chief executive of News Corp …

Discussion: CNET News, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, Media Decoder, The Daily Beast, VentureBeat and Mixed Media

AdAge:

Groupon Snags Last-Minute Super Bowl Ad Time — Social-Shopping Phenom Had Been Relegated to Pre- and Post-game Spots — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Groupon's got game time. — Less than a month ago, the online company was shut out of the Super Bowl and was planning on only pre-game and post-game commercials.

Discussion: The Wire, rbr.com, CNET News, newsfeed.time.com and AdFreak

Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:

3 new resources for data journalists — There have been a raft of new sites for data launched in the past couple of months which I haven't had time to blog about, so here's a quick round-up: — Tim Davies' Open Data Cookbook aims to collect “step by step recipes for practical ways to use open data” …

New York Post:

Now, the real work begins at Brown's NewsBeast — The NewsBeast is ALIVE! — But it has problems aplenty, not the least of which is surviving Tina Brown's star system — great if you're enjoying most-favored reporter status and hell if you are not. — The inevitable result is staff discord …

Discussion: New York Observer