Nielsen, the leading television rating company, will start tracking DVR use and adding it to its ratings reports, which will now come in three forms.
Responding to the requests of clients who wanted to know how DVR use affected viewing, Nielsen will now offer three ratings per program and network: Live, Live/Same Day (which includes same-day [...]

Disney adds sports from ABC and ESPN to its iTunes video catalog.

In the early stages of another big-media fakery scandal, Ed Driscoll provides a fine comentary on how the power of ideas rather than authority is giving the blogs a more believable voice than the MSM. He includes this commentary from Glen Reynolds from 2004:
While arguments from authority are hard on the Internet, substantiating arguments is [...]

Another sign of the changing balance between old and new media as ABC decides to brand ABC sports with the ESPN logo.

The editor of the Washington Post says blogs and online readers are driving a new audience to his paper and his reporters benefit from the criticism and fact checking that bloggers provide.

Reporters love newsroom blogs, said Downie, because they put writers in better touch with their readers: “Everyone in our newsroom wants to be a [...]

Democrats often complain about Republicans’ advantage in alternative media (meaning talk radio and blogs) and are making efforts to compete. Bill Clinton says one reason for the left’s unpreparedness has been its dependency on old-media outlets to promote their agenda for them, something conservatives would say they’ve never enjoyed.
[Clinton] said Democrats of his generation tend [...]

As weblogs begin to move into video and site like YouTube gain large audiences, the EU wants to apply broadcast censorship standards to the web.
Viviane Reding, the Media Commissioner, argues that the purpose is simply to set minimum standards on areas such as advertising, hate speech and the protection of children.
But Shaun Woodward, the Broadcasting [...]

Hugh Hewitt defends the journalistic legitimacy of blogs against a young skeptic from the Wall Street Journal, who had tried to dismiss the blogosphere as foolish and irrelevant.

Selwyn Duke at American Thinker points out that a revived Fairness Doctrine only punished communicators who are honest about their beliefs. After all, who’s to label the various sides of the debate if not the participants themselves? If you don’t label yourself as biased, you need no antidote.
The dirty little secret behind the Fairness Doctrine [...]

AP makes a smart move to free up its resources for bloggers to use.