New Business Briefing: MTV Shifts, Clear Channel Settles, Sansa Shakes & More
>>> MTV is reshaping itself as channel aimed straight at multi-tasking teens adding more shows with user generated content and online and cell based participation.(LA Times) Is the "people" control the content does this mean more or less indie content will sneak in?
>>> Clear Channel has accepted a new $19 billion bid for its radio and billboard empire. A
stockholder vote on the offers has been postponed until early May. (FMQB)
>>> SanDisk adds the $39.99 Sansa Shaker aimed at tweens to its line of portable music players.
>>> Ornette Coleman has broken classical music’s stranglehold on the committee and won the
2007 Pulitzer Prize.
>>> Yahoo! quarterly earnings fell 11%.
>>> NPR looks at Palei and Podington, two prolific writers who chronicle their lives in daily song diaries that they share almost instantly with fans. (NPR story and audio)
