MediaBack Page’s Quick Hits for March 23rd :

• The Associated Press: Adam Carolla goes from canceled to podcast king -
• How the iPhone 3.0 Will Create a New Mobile Economy -
• Social Media Marketing Budgets on the Rise -
• Newspapers fold as readers defect and economy sours - CNN.com -

MediaBack Page’s Quick Hits for March 19th :

• Time Inc.'s new made-to-order magazine lets readers tailor content - Yahoo! Canada Finance -
• How the iPhone could save the newspaper industry : Ben Patterson : Yahoo! Tech - An interesting take on how Apple's iPhone 3.0 technology can be leveraged for struggling publications to build a new stream of revenue.

MediaBack Page’s Quick Hits for March 18th :

• Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 and the unannounced Podcast features -

MediaBack Page’s Quick Hits for March 17th :

• Milwaukee Bucks tell Charlie Villanueva not to Twitter during games anymore - ESPN - Don't take Twitter with you to the ballgame…
• Clear Channel Says Mobile And Online Lifts Radio Audience By 15 Percent - washingtonpost.com -
• Williams, Romeo, Hilles Join Goom - Another take on Internet Radio - this time powered by former Z100-New York jocks.

MediaBack Page’s Quick Hits for March 16th :

• Column: Can Teen.com TV Become the Web’s MTV? - TVWeek - News -

MediaBack Page’s Quick Hits for March 12th :

• Financial Woes Enter Prime-Time’s Plotlines - NYTimes.com - Drama is starting to look like the new reality…

MediaBack Page’s Quick Hits for March 10th :

• K-Rock, the Place Where Rock No Longer Lives | BNET Media Blog | BNET - The slogan “The Place Where Rock Lives” has now gone to bed with two NY radio outlets…now maybe Rock Will Live on a secondary HD Channel, but its not the same…

MediaBack Page’s Quick Hits for March 9th :

• iTunes Celebrity Playlist Become Podcasts…with Tom Jones | Cult of Mac - Looks like iTunes has taken the next step with their “celebrity playlists” and brought them to life with a new Podcast series… at the very least this provides a unique way to gain some perspective on music maybe you haven’t thought about previously, and offers a chance to get some insight from your favorite artists…
• Column: Spinning the Web on the TV Set - TVWeek - News - TV Shows on the Web on the TV, it’s the next reality.
• Seattle paper may shift to online-only: reports - The newspaper business continues to be hit hard, in a sense more of the same that sent The Rocky packing a few weeks ago.
• NBC Is Buoyed by a Matrix of Winners - NYTimes.com - In a time of increasingly diverse audience segments - can an hour long news cast survive? Or does it in fact help the network to reach an even broader audience and extend its brand?

MediaBack Page’s Quick Hits for February 28th through March 2nd:

• Has TV lost its nerve when it comes to complex dramas? | The Watcher -
• Rap Works the Late Shift - WSJ.com - Jimmy Fallon hits the airwaves and brings musical icons The Roots with him to late night television.
• Paul Harvey Dead: Radio legend Paul Harvey dead at age 90 — chicagotribune.com - The Chicago Tribune offers a great commentary on legendary radio broadcaster Paul Harvey.
• Survey shows optimism for social media, digital in 2009 - PRWeek US - PR is Changing It’s Gameface
• Twitter Investor Says There’s ‘No Rush’ To Make Money, But There’s Definitely A Plan | paidContent.org -
• Broadcast Networks Battling Uphill for Profit and Audience - NYTimes.com -

MediaBack Page’s Quick Hits for February 27th :

• Cablevision: Newsday Deal Wasn’t (Quite) as Bad as We Feared | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD - An update on a story we discussed last summer… while Cablevision is notorious for making bad acquisitions and having even poorer management…it seems like Newsday is still in business…for now.
• Google to gobble Twitter » Adotas - How Twitter can be monetized is a big question…can you foresee a day where you’ll update your status right from Gmail?