Two U.S. networks pass on Paris Hilton interview
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Paris Hilton appeared to be a celebrity without a spotlight on Friday after two major U.S. television networks snubbed the hotel heiress they initially fought over for a first post-jail interview.
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Paris - The United States ranked 22nd alongside Belgium and behind countries including Bosnia, France and Trinidad and Tobago on a media freedom index released this week by Reporters Without Borders.
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Chartreuse says, &#145;&#145;If Madonna was Marketing 1.0, then Paris Hilton is Marketing 2.0.&#146;&#146; Why? &#145;&#145;Because she is the queen of links.&#146;&#146; Paris never really talks about herself. She talks about other people . . . the designers of her clothes, the clubs she goes to, who she hangs out with. She has garnered what marketers want, attention. But when ...
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Two of the cast members have cancelled those all-important press engagements.
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Representatives of older and new media companies detailed their embraces of the Internet Friday at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco, with supposed old-line companies emphasizing opportunities and dismissing any threats to longstanding business models.Executives from CBS, Comcast, Joost, and Current participated in panel sessions on media operations and the Internet. While the Internet might be seen as potentially taking viewers away from traditional broadcast and cable television, panelists noted that TV viewership still accounts for several hours per person daily and continues on its 30-year trend upward.Comcast and CBS officials both noted that the Internet can extend their businesses."We love the Internet for a variety of reasons," said Amy Banse, president of Comcast Interactive Media, which is responsible for the cable TV provider's Internet businesses. People use Comcast's pipe to access the Internet and Comcast is the largest residential ISP, she said.But Comcast also believes in cable TV and that it will be around for a while, she said. "People thought that with television, radio would disappear and with cable television, broadcast television would disappear, and we all know that that hasn?t happened," Banse said.The Internet has enabled CBS to extend beyond its largely U.S.-based audience and to gain "new eyeballs," said Quincy Smith, president of CBS Interactive, which covers Internet operations. "We, CBS, have not found the Internet to be cannibalistic to television," Smith said.Persons who see a two-minute clip of a CBS show, such as "How I Met Your Mother," might be encouraged to watch the program, he said. He recalled how a recent clip of David Letterman interviewing Paris Hilton showed up on YouTube and drew a lot of traffic; this was embraced by CBS, which carries Letterman's show.Asked by panel moderator Josh Quittner, of Fortune magazine, if she was worried about Google, Banse dismissed this."You want me to be a dinosaur running scared. I'm really not," she said. Google has been a "wonderful partner" for Comcast, with people accessing the search site via the Comcast pipe, said Banse.?In a subsequent panel session, officials from Joost, which provides broadcast-quality Internet television service, and Current, which blends broadcast TV with interactive Internet communications, shared their companies' visions."We wanted to bring the magic of the Internet to television, not the dumbness of television to the Internet," said Joel Hyatt, co-founder and CEO of Current. A community has been fostered to submit video that can be viewed on Current TV.Joost, meanwhile, is making peer-to-peer-based video distribution software that can run on PCs and the Macintosh, said Mike Volpi, Joost CEO. High-quality is streamed, with some of it professionally created by companies such as CBS and Viacom. Other content is developed by persons who are not so familiar. Joost is trying to develop an advertising-supported model.Both Joost and Current embrace advertising as a business model."I believe advertising is definitely the way to go," Volpi said. Advertising thus far has not blended well on the Internet because it has been offered in the form of banner ads or keywords, he said. But there are plenty of ad dollars to be gained by going after targeted users, he said.
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Paris Hilton is set to be released from jail early this week after serving time for a probation violation. Her first post-jail interview will be on Larry King Live on CNN Wednesday night. Reportedly, both ABC and NBC pursued an interview and off...
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A charitable organization on Friday denied that a planned trip to Rwanda it had organized for hotel heiress Paris Hilton, and which has been postponed, would have been filmed as part of a reality television show.
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NEW YORK  - Larry King might not have been Paris Hilton's first choice for her first out-of-prison interview, but the telecast brought the CNN talkmeister back to No. 1 in the ratings for a night.
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Richard Adams on the fallout after MSNBC newsreader Mika Brzezinski refused to read her segment's lead news item on Paris Hilton.
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Filmmaker Michael Moore said he was  barred from the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday for an  interview on his documentary on the U.S. health-care system, a  day after he was bumped from a national TV interview to make  way for Paris Hilton.
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Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie brought their TV show, "The Simple Life," to a Wilmington day care facility this week.
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Olympians can do media interviews but they'd better not blog. The International Olympic Committee, interested in protecting lucrative broadcasting contracts, forbids any activity that might upset the networks.
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By SETH SUTEL  NEW YORK - The NFL Network has rejected two proposals from Time Warner Cable that would have allowed New York-area viewers to watch Rutgers and Kansas State in the Texas Bowl.  The NFL Network is carrying that Dec. 28 game, as well as the Dec.
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By JOCELYN NOVECK NEW YORK - So you may have heard: Paris Hilton was ticketed the other day for driving with a suspended license. Not huge news, even by celebrity-gossip standards. Here at The Associated Press, we put out an initial item of some 300 words.
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Jailed celebrity heiress Paris Hilton is dropped by her showbusiness agency, according to a report.
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On Thursday, socialite Paris Hilton had apparently partied all night long, and at about half past midnight police pulled her over for driving erratically on the streets of Hollywood. She subsequently failed a field sobriety test, but according t...
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BFFs Britney Spears and Paris Hilton reportedly are no longer friends. They even ditched the same fashion show in New York just so they wouldn't cross paths. They were both scheduled to appear at the Heatherette show at Fashion Week and c...