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January 01, 1990 - October 05, 2012 + The Business Brief
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The Iraq Movie Surge 
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb100322the_iraq_movie_surge
The $100 million action thriller Green Zone opened the weekend before last, and so far it's brought in an
unimpressive $24 million domestically. But perhaps even...
Trade Wars
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb100315trade_wars
For years and years, the business has been the happy battle ground of
two trade papers – Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. But in recent
years, the...
Distribution Is Marketing
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb100308distribution_is_mark
I'll spare you the Oscar talk; I’ll just report that it looks like ratings for the telecast are up and James Cameron got smacked down,...
Water Cooler Talk
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb100301water_cooler_talk
In 1994, 204 million Americans watched the winter Olympics in the picturesque Norwegian town of Lillehammer. The games that just ended in Vancouver had an...
Rating the Raters
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb100125rating_the_raters
Nielsen, by far the biggest of the media ratings companies, proudly announced last week that they will start counting on-line and DVR-TV watching this fall. ...
Black Blockbuster
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb100118black_blockbuster
As the nation celebrates the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, the name of President Obama is coming up an awful lot. But the folks...
Everybody Hates Jay
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb100111everybody_hates_jay
If you've just woken from an extended bout of unconsciousness, you may not have heard that NBC moved Jay Leno to 10pm last fall, and...
The New (Entertainment) World
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb100104the_new_entertainmen
"Nobody knows anything." That's the line lifted from William Goldman's
1983 Hollywood memoir adventures in the screen trade that has famously
come to describe the entertainment industry....
How Is $400 Million like $100,000?
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb091214how_is_400_million_l
Avatar is finally coming out this week. At a cost of $300 or $400 million, James Cameron's sci-fi action epic is one of the most...
Tortoise and the Hare
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb091207tortoise_and_the_har
Slow and steady wins the race is the moral of the famous fable about the tortoise and the hare, but the folks in Hollywood clearly...
Speak Up, Hollywood!
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb091130speak_up_hollywood
Before she came to Hollywood and before she became host of the business
here on KCRW, Kim Masters covered politics for the Washington Post. She
told me...
The Digital Revolution Will Be Televised...for $24.95
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb091116the_digital_revoluti
Yahoo has launched a nice new ad campaign with messages of digital empowerment like "now the Internet has a personality – yours." But one of...
Back from the Boondocks
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb091109back_from_the_boondo
The story of Troy Duffy's rocket-ride to success and equally dramatic
plummet back to Earth is combination of Hollywood legend and Greek
tragedy; call it Icarus meets...
Which Way, Emmys?
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb090921which_way_emmys
Last night was the 61st prime-time Emmy Awards, the television industry's biggest night, and the question has to be: who cares? I'm not trying be...
