Al Jazeera America shutting Down

Medialine News 

       The Cable news channel , Al Jazeera America,announced Wednesday that  it will be shutting down on April 30th.  After almost 2 1/2 years and 3 years after the big announcement that they were buying Current TV from Al Gore.

   The reasoning per Al Jazeera America's website:

        Al Jazeera America will shutter its cable TV and digital operations by April 30 of this year, the company announced Wednesday. The decision by the AJAM board was “driven by the fact that our business model is simply not sustainable in light of the economic challenges in the U.S. media marketplace,” said AJAM CEO Al Anstey.

   The Network attracted alot of journalists to join it  such as John Seigenthaler (former NBC News anchor) , Ali Velshi (former CNN) , and others , but it's ratings were never as strong  as it's competitors.  It also had problems with carriers at the very start and recently a controversy over a report about  sports players alleged doping, which they defended as accurate.    The Company says they will expand digital operations in the U.S .  It is unknown what happens to the channel space: if it is removed all together, sold  One  America News seems to want it , or Al Jazerra English takes it's place.

A look Back at TV and Media Trends of 2013

A Look Back   Opinions 
 Written By Skyler

   2013 was an interesting year in the world of TV and Media  we look at some trends we noticed this year.

 1.   More Cable News Channels
  Even though, cable news channels   had a down rating year ,    there was a launch of some new news channels  and the adding of some that have been around.
   Al Jazeera made it's splash first  : on January 2nd this year they announced  they were buying Al Gore's Liberal talk channel , Current TV.   Al Jazeera Media which launched  Al Jazerra English  in 2006 was trying to get the news network into America since launch but has face troubles getting it on cable systems.  The closest it got was broadcasts on public tv channels,  some 24/7 using digital sub channels  and online.  Though the announcement that  they were buying  Current caused some cable companies like Time Warner Cable  to drop Current.  ( Though later  Time Warner Cable added Al Jazeera America. )  Al Jazeera America was launched  August 20th , it was made as a news channel that would focus on American news with international news splashed in.  Most of the programming is done in the United States they hired anchors and reporters.  Only a few Al Jazeera English programs and newscasts air on the channel.   The Channel is different than what you would see on CNN, Fox News ,and MSNBC.  No talking head lead opinion shows , sometimes long form stories,  more news broadcast programs.  If it will last is still to be known and what holds for the network in 2014  is unknown.
   Another channel , though  had less press than Al Jazeera America  was One America News Network , this network is owned by the owners of Wealth TV  Herring Broadcasting  and  The Washington Times , it was launched as a new channel to also have conservative leaning talk shows , it so far was not on alot of Cable systems.  Though did land a cable later this year.
    When ABC News and Univision announced in 2012  that they were going to launch a channel together it  may have been a surprise and also made some wonder what or how the channel would be.  The idea of the channel is a target audience of young English speaking Latinos with a news and lifestyle channel.  It replaced ABC's unloved news channel  ABC News Now.    So far not known how the channel is fairing, there  of course might be more programs and expansion in 2014.
   We wonder if any more news channels will be launched in 2014 , also as BBC World news and other internationals also get expansion in the US  it's a good thing that more news channel opitions are opening for viewers especially if viewers are tired of CNN, MSNBC , and Fox News Channel .

 2.   Binge Watching
     Usually  the word "binge"  has a bad connotation to it  but this year the continuation of the concept of "Binge-viewing " . Netflix , Hulu and others have been adding  shows they are bought for the use on exclusive on their services. For instance when  Netflix brought back the long-canceled  FOX show " Arrested Devolpment" the whole  season was  available  to stream   so a viewer could watch the show their own way including  the whole season in a day.  Usually on physical television ? , maybe linear, you have to wait maybe a week for the new episode of your show the idea of being able to watch a whole season might be more fun.
    It also shows a trend of people choosing to watch television on at random time on their own time. We see this trend of having mere online original shows   continuing in 2014 , along with people  watching TV their time and ways.  Though , if you are cord- cutter it maybe a little harder to  follow some of your network favorites  ABC is joining Fox  in soon only letting cable subscribers  watch their programs online.  (Though still appearing free on part Disney owned Hulu.)  or you would have to wait a week for it to be free on Watch ABC.  For now , the CW, NBC and CBS are still free but we'll see what 2014 brings.
    Cable companies are now offering perks to make sure you stay for instance ,watching channels live through their websites and apps. Comcast announced they will adding  channels to watch outside the home on apps.  Many channels themselves like Disney Channel , have also added ways for you watch their programs on websites and apps Live and full episodes.

   3.   Local Stations up for grabs
      This is more of interesting trend was this year  was  companies  that own local stations buying other companies that own local TV stations.  For instance , Sinclair  which owns a lot of stations in the first place , bought  some stations from Cox , the bought the company Barrington  , it bought Seattle based Fisher Communications ,  Allbritton was  also  purchased .  Gannett also went on it's own  shopping  buying up Belo's tv stations  (except for 3) .   Tribune company , who emerged from bankruptcy late last year, bought Local TVLLC , a company the Tribune worked with anyway so it might have well just bought it.  Hoak was sold to  Grey TV.     There could be chance for more in 2014 and also makes  a wonder why so many are being sold.  It is causing the shrinkage of the market though  , and could also make more fights with  cable companies affect larger amounts of people .  If anything it probably is not the end of this.

CNN makes changes : Crossfire gets a time slot ,2 Andersons ,and more Wolf

CNN   Media 

      CNN's return of "Crossfire" was announced a couple months ago and now it has a time slot and premiere day.   Starting September 16th , it will air weeknights at 6:30PMET-7PMET.  Meanwhile ,since Wolf Blitzer's program "The Situation Room"  will be cut to 5-6:30PMET , he will now anchor the 1pmet hour of CNN Newsroom in addition to his "Situation Room" duties . While a 10PMET program has been announced with still keeping Anderson Cooper  at 8 and 10pmet , but the 10PMET  edition will be called "AC360 Later"

 More update : "CNN's 11AMET hour of "Newsroom" is to be renamed "Legal View"  starting August 12th. (per TV Newser) 

 Read CNN's press release after the jump

Sunday Talks : It's a boy

Sundays Talks , The Media 
  Written by Skyler  M
   
     The Big news this week  in the media perspective was the new royal baby , named  Prince George Alexander Louis ( 3 great names for boys by, the way) as the new heir the throne is born  to wait until it will be his time.   The US media even got the bug to cover  the UK royals , as they like to do. The coverage of things like this do get a little weird, the media reporters were sent to stand infront of a hospital door to say the same thing they said 5 minutes ago "No baby yet".   By Monday afternoon in the US time scale  ,we found out that baby is born and it's a boy.  Now many could be bothered by the coverage , but I do say  that at least it's a positive story in the news. Sometimes you need a positive story sometime  and this was.  
                                     
                                  image: Channel 4 News/ Tuesday
     The  media sent reporters to stand infront of a door to tell everyone that their hasn't been a baby yet  and repeat that about 10  minutes later.   The one thing that happens in coverage is that news likes to stick to coverage instead of also going to other things in the news.   CNN found the oddest way to cover a royal birth, they went to a birth.     But after the reveal and the name came out the coverage did , as it should, winded down.  
     
       Al Jazerra America  is set to launch in a few weeks, it's replacing Current TV ( which I was surprised to see was still doing it's live political programming ).  They have announced their new president  former ABC News executive Kate O' Brian.  The channel says they will be doing news 24/7 LIVE.    Most cable news channels  , give up the live  programming plot at 11PMET or 8pm for the west coast .  MSNBC goes into opinion programming starting around 3PMET (so no news there really)  , Fox News channel goes into opinion first at 5pmet going back to news at 6 and 7pmet ,then returning back to opinion after 8pmet.    The 24/7 strategy  makes wonder if they will be simulcasting AJ English at points in the day.  We used to have Channels that run news live 24/7 CNN used to and HLN (when it was Headline News) used to.  We will update you on them when they launch.
      I do hope that Al Jazerra America won't go into tabloid , opinion, trails all day , junk that  CNN and many other US channels have gone into. Hopefully the keep that promise they won't.

    How much do you care about Anthony Weiner?   Most of the national media seems to think you should care alot about him. The story is not as important unless  you live in New York City and will be voting in the election.  If a story is leading Inside Edition or Entertainment Tonight ... maybe the nightly news shouldn't lead with it?  CBS didn't lead with it, so it is possible to do.  The media loves it because of the sexting part and  his name it works well that way.  

                                               
   

The Joshuaonline News Hot list 1/28//2013

TV and the Media 

1. Who are the winners of the Screen Actors Guild Awards , last night ?
 "Downton Abbey"  won Outstanding preformance by an ensemble cast in a drama
 you can find rest of the right here.




2.  ABC's Barbra Walters has the chicken pox ,she was hospitalized  after falling down at an inauguration even last weekend. read more here 

3. The NewYork Post  is reporting that Ann Curry has been banned by NBC from doing live interviews relegated to taped ones. This comes after speculation that the former "Today" host is wanting to leave the Network.  read more here 

4.A newspaper reality show?  NBC is looking.  read more here 

5. Tucker Carlson , Mediaite interviews the former CNN and MSNBC host and currently the owner of the DailyCaller  find out what he thinks of  the current state of cable news.  read more here

2 Media Things for you to know for 7-16-2012

Media
By Skyler


1.  MSNBC.com is gone (for now) , On July 15th  1996, cable news channel, MSNBC was launched Mircosoft and NBC, so was their website, now on July 15th , 2012 Msnbc.com is gone. NBC has taken full control of the website and renamed it NBCNEWS.COM .  The 2 reasons I can factor why NBC NEWS did this , is A) they wanted full control of their web presence , and B) MSNBC TV has moved more to a left leaning opinion channel that they wanted to separate the MSNBC and NBC NEWS NAME, msnbc to get a new site in 2013.  
related link  : A question : Is NBC NEWS trying to distance itself from msnbc?


2. CNN  changes morning hosts. CNN's morning show "Early Start" , which started earlier this year , is changing co-host Ashleigh Banfield  with former ABC NEWS reporter ,John Berman. He joins Zoraida Sambolin as co-host.  "Early Start" airs on CNN Weekdays  5-7AMET. 2-4AM PT.  Banfield is moving to a daytime news position on CNN. 

The Media 5 : 5 things to tell you about today

TV  MEDIA 
1. A week after Ann Curry was forced from the Today Show as co-host , Savannah Guthrie is the new co-host. here's her first minutes. 

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the econom

2. If you like "Good Morning America" , it's spin off that will run for 9 weeks called "Good Afternoon America" will run weekdays at 2p/1c on ABC , it replaced a low rated show called "The Revolution" , a show that started in January after replacing "One Life to Live"."General Hospital moves up to this time in September. 

3.  Fox News Channel's  "The Five" turns 1 years old this week, the show was originally a temporary replacement for "Glenn Beck" who left to start his own web TV channel, But it was made permanent and it has some good ratings. 

4. If you love Baseball, the mid season break has begun that means Home Run Derby tonight at 8PMET/5PMPT On ESPN and All Star Game starting at 8pm/7c on FOX 

5. And something of notice, like sister network , Style,  E! has  new tagline called "Pop of Culture" they also modified their logo.

Dear the Media.. Things aren't news

Dear the Media
 By Sarah F for mychiller
    February is over and once a gain the media wasted a month on stupid episodic things and everything is political issue. What was it the lack of primaries and debates?The media has issues of talking about Whitney Houston for  a week, they talked about contraception , they talked about  Rick Santorum how he was the front runner because he won 3 states, and not looking at how many delegates he has which at the time was less than Gingrich. They wasted time debating things that don't need to be debated for days on straight, Maybe  ,they hate good economic news or think the economy is better so they aren't focusing on it?   They were also beating the drum for war with Iran, maybe they have money for their war coverage budget now and forgot that the US was in 2 wars and has yet to pay that debt of.  


 By Sklyer 
     CBS Evening News has had a great  February it beat ABC World News with 25-52 yr  old demo   one week. I do think it's because the newscast is different from NBC's and ABC's that it''s doing more serious stories and less entertainment and light stories.  
       NBC did something stupid from the start in February , what did they do? They moved "Rock Center with Brian Williams" a weekly news magazine , from Monday nights at 10/9c to Wednesday Nights at 9/8c.  The stupid thing about that is the time slot. 9/8c on Wednesday is friecely packed, with top rated shows, "Modern Family ", "Happy Endings"on ABC and "American Idol" (which has been slipping) on FOX. So now in March they are moving it to 10/9c , where it will compete with lighter shows, though it could still get beat by "Revenge". And to think NBC is the fourth place network ,there's a reason for that. 

Post New Hampshire media review.

Media Choice 2012
  C1. no weebles  ,Nothing here is listed by how important it is. CNN did use their "flick" technology but the little "weebles" disappeared.
     2. What do we do all night? Most of the news channels started a 6PMET  with coverage and for about 2 hours they waited for the polls to close. 8PMET , the declared Romney the winner and now they got bored,they carried the winner's  speech, the 2nd place ,Ron Paul speech, 3rd place Huntsman, 4th place Santorum and 5th place Gingrich. Perry didn't do one and they forget about Buddy Rohmer.  So by 10pmET they were just talking about what will happen in South Carolina and most of the channels went to bed at 1AMET.
  3. So no Olbermann  Current TV , didn't have Keith Olbermann again  but the 3 people from last time , Cenk Uygur, fmr. Govenor Jennifer Granholm , Fmr. Vice President and Co-founder of Current TV, Al Gore (he was in a screen this time) , this coverage was even slower and  last exited than last time and they did end at 11PMET ,again but this time they had a winner.
 4.  This Governor doesn't like MSNBC opinion hosts   [LInk and there's a video from Mediaite] reason not to have  Opinion hosts for a news event.
5.  This is just funny or sad ?  Wolf Blitzer asks Huntsman daughters are you available? 
see you in South Carolina , Media

The Media what to watch for NH Primary Preview

Straight Forward  Choice 2012  Media 
  By Skyler
  New Hampshire voters , get to vote in the NH republican primaries tonight and of course the media is covering it like there's no tomorrow.
    Here's our look at what the media preview is for coverage tonight.
 1. Already a winner   The media already is declaring Fmr. Governor Mitt Romney the winner of the primary , because they are using poll data. I do say it's wrong to delcare a winner and wonder who's second. Elections are not for the media to say who the winner is before votes are counted.
 2. CNN tech   Cnn , last week during the Iowa Caucus  launched some new tech like "weebles" and "flick" will they use this again tonight or because of all the jokes about it last week  they choose not too.
 3. Current TV  Keith Olbermann will be there tonight , last week they cut off before the votes final announcement was made , so let's hope they don't do that tonight. .
 4. Fox Business and the business channels  , FOX Business  we say  is doing a great job at covering the elections anchor Neil Cavuto will be anchoring tonight.  CNBC will not be covering tonight , Bloomberg will do one hour at 9pmET. We hope they would cover more , If you do coverage you should do more than 1 hour.

more after the break

Review of the Media on the Iowa Caucus

Media  Choice2012 
  By Joshuaonline Staff

CNN 
     CNN seems to pride themselves on their election coverage . This year , the network  moved it's election coverage from New York to it's Atlanta HQ.  It also added a bunch more graphics and gadgets to it's use age. Using heavy hitter anchors, Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer ,John King and their "Best Political team on TV" CNN made their election coverage interesting.
   Goods:  CNN kept the coverage fair and kept going through out the night waiting for every vote to be counted.  Its setup was great overall.
  Bads: CNN did use too many things, even though the GCI "Weebles" seem like a good idea it's just something for mockery. The "Flex " touch screens maybe a bit much and twitter is good but trying to use it in coverage may be too much.
read more

Iowa Caucus Media Preview

Media  
   By Skyler and Joshuaonline staff
     Today is the Iowa Caucus , the Republicans are working on finding their next nominee for the presidential race. We take  a preview and ask questions about what will be seeing and covering on Joshuaonline.
        1. The Network Coverage. The Networks (NBC,ABC,CBS,and FOX) won't be covering the Caucasus in real time , leaving the winner announcement to local newscasts , though ABC NEWS will do some during 'Nightline' as well.
       2. Current TV versus MSNBC  . Current TV is a cable channel run by former Vice-President Al Gore , the channel has been evolving into news and opinion , calling themselves a progressive source, or more targeted to  liberal viewers. MSNBC primetime also has been doing the same. Tonight both channels will have Caucus coverage using liberal hosts we will want to know how the two channels covered it if any difference in that.
       3. FOX NEWS ,CNN,CNBC,FOX BIZ  They will be having full coverage tonight  of the Caucus with less  of a spin compared to MSNBC and Current.
        4. The media post spin Elections on TV always need to fill that extra time and the way done is using analysts   to spin what happened and why.  Plus in  a caucus which is different than a primary  , the polls that have been coming out have been playing with the media. That is what they use to take a measure and sometimes they are wrong, we will see if that happens, how they take it.
     
We will be doing more media looking during the Caucus tonight at 7PMET on Joshuaonline
  email our staff at mychiller@inbox.com

CNN's new morning shows started Today

Media  CNN  Cable news  Morning NEWS 
   CNN's morning show of 10 years "American Morning" ended quietly on December 30th 2011 ,and 3 days later  2 new morning shows took it's place.
        'Early Start' runs from 5AMET-7AMET is anchored by former MSNBC/NBC NEWS and Court TV anchor  Asheligh Banfield  and former Chicago Anchor ,Zoraida Sambolin. The show replaces CNN's "American Morning Wake up call" ,which ran from 5-6AMET until December  and the First hour of "American Morning".
  Video below



more after the jump

CNN changes

CNN
by skyler of Joshuaonline

Eliot Spitzer 

  CNN announced on Wednesday that Eliot Spitzer's  show will be ending next month. "In the Arena" started back in October of 2010 as "Parker Spitzer" co-host by newspaper columnist  Kathleen Parker who left in January.  The 8PMET program will be replaced by 10PMET program AC 360 hosted by Anderson Cooper. 7PMET  will be getting a new program hosted by former CNBC host Erin Burnett. The 7PMET program currently there called "John King USA" will move to 6PMET.  "The Situation Room"  currently airs from 5-7PMET will now be from 4-6PMET  and "CNN NEWSROOM" will be shorten by an hour to run 9AMET- TO 4PMET.  AC360 will rebroadcast at 10PMET and Erin Burrnett's show will replay at 11PMET.   The rundown after the Jump.

Olberman's Return

 Media 

By Skyler of mychiller

   MSNBC's Current TV's Keith Olbermann  returned to TV he's now doing a new show , or could you say a  continuance of his show "Coutdown With Keith Olbermann" returned to the air after Olbermann left  msnbc in January. He noticeably had a new tune to his show  he now has a embraced anti-corperate style working off of Current TV not being owned by a major corporation. He still has his opinions and not liking of FOX NEWS and  Conservatives.  The show debuted in a new studio in Newyork the theme was the same of his msnbc show just alot more upbeat. "Coutdown's" style though was pretty much kept though not the numbers as much.  You watch some parts after the jump.

The Media Watch June 5th 2011

The Media watch      TV  ONLINE 

Scott Pelley

    CBS Evening news with Scott Pelley starts on Monday, Katie Couric's replacement starts his turn as anchor of the CBS Evening news. Giving him a start in the slow new cycle of summer.  Meanwhile , talking about Katie Couric reports say that Monday a TV deal for Ms.Couric could be announced.  It could be a talk show deal with Disney/ABC. 


Anderson Cooper 

  As you may know CNN's Anderson Cooper will be hosting his own daytime talk show come fall, and on Friday they announced the new website for the show where you can find where to watch it. The name is case you don't know will be 'Anderson' great creative team there. 

Mark's Media Report Card Sunday March 27th 2011

By Mark C for Mychiller Media
MEDIA 

How did the media do this week in their coverage of stories? Here's  a look at  this.
 United States and other Countries "No Fly Zone" on Libya : How did the media cover this? Well to say awful is the last of their worries. It looks like we have a D- as our grade . They started of on last Saturday calling this everything but a war, unless your CNN ,then it was called Libya War. They weren't even skeptical of the whole thing until Monday. It took them until Tuesday to cover why the heck we are in there at all , we have no interests in Libya meaning no oil.  Shame on you media you're lucky you didn't get an F.

From GMA to WN

Charles Gibson who took over as anchor of ABC world news tonight then renamed ABC world news replacing Bob Wodruff and Elizabeth Vargas in 2006. Gibson move from GMA to Worldnews he is now retiring. Diane Sawyer of ABC's Good Morning America will take over she will be the second time a female has been announced to be solo Anchor on a Nightly newcast not counting weekends. She will compete against Katie Couric which still brings a question Katie hasn't been doing well at CBS News in Ratings. But We'll see how this goes. Sawyer will take over at Worldnews in January 2010.

The Mouse buys the Hulk

Disney today announced they are buying Marvel Studios surprising to many Marvel Fans are surprised to find that Disney is buying Marvel studios for $4,000,000,000 small change for Disney. For now what does this mean for Marvel that's still unknown for now. But one of reasons for Disney buying Marvel maybe for it's male oriented channel Disney XD Which airs tons of Marvel shows at least 20hours per week. So it may have been a good business move. For Marvel fans may be a little mad about the deal so may some Disney fans. Some are saying that this is a good sign the the US. Economy since a media buying hasn't happend in a year.

myDNC Coverage reviews

All the networks were not slanted in coverage it was an even place for cONVENTION viewers I will tell you next week about our RNC reivew