By: Bob
The TV Guide has become irrelevant for a number of different reasons. The first is that all of the cable/satellite providers have their own on-screen program schedule applications. Last minute changes...
View ArticleBy: Mike
Excellent post! This does not only apply to media companies but to all sectors where you have cash cows. Look at the online world. Already classifieds sites like Monster are cash cows and too afraid to...
View ArticleBy: Prescott Shibles
Jeff, I run the online arm of a B2B media company, and I find that it’s often easier to work with magazines in a challenged market than it is to work with a cash cow franchise. A colleague of mine,...
View ArticleBy: Brian Cash
Diddo on the innovation.....It is the visionary and the trailblazer who need not conform to the iron structures that a cash cow makes one adhere to. These business and people should be the cash cows...
View ArticleBy: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » New News: Deconstructing the newspaper
[...] Consider the economics: What is the net profit per subscriber? How many of those subscribers need to cancel their subscriptions before you lose more money than you would if you killed the stock...
View ArticleBy: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Newspaper stock and the paper it’s printed on
[...] And I’ll argue that the same effect is waiting to haunt other big, one-size-fits-all media companies as they are saddled with big costs while smaller, nimbler, more effective, targeted, and...
View ArticleBy: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Here comes the site
[...] So now to the lesson: Think of the biorhythms of Bridal media as a speeded-up version of the life cycle that the rest of media are going through. Other audiences may not flush out every 18...
View ArticleBy: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Who killed the critics?
[...] And there’s this: As media explodes with more and more choice, one critic or one publication simply can’t keep up with it all. That was efficient when you had one-screen theaters and three TV...
View ArticleBy: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Whither magazines?
[...] What Time did this week is just what TV Guide did more than a year ago when it cut its rate base and junk circulation and reduced its editions and changed its focus to online with new community...
View ArticleBy: Joel
Personal experience tells me that TVGuide.com is also losing a lot of its market share. We've seen a drop in the number of subscriptions especially within the past 6 months.
View ArticleBy: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Sitting shiva for dead trees
[...] 2006 was the year when the newspaper industry finally realized it was f’ed. Today’s news of the weak-kneed offers for Tribune Company are further evidence. And this is just the start. Radio has...
View ArticleBy: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » How now, cash cow
[...] ago, I used TV Guide as a cautionary tale to beware the cash cow in the coal mine. How now, said cow — which not long ago sold more copies every year than any other magazine [...]
View ArticleBy: That’s right, I said Jeff Jarvis | Pundit Review
[...] Milking the old cash cow [...]
View ArticleBy: Rupert has balls « BuzzMachine
[...] a news corp anymore but a TV company. They’ve given up. They’re just hoping to squeeze one more pint of milk out of old Bessie before they turn her into [...]
View ArticleBy: Surrendering advertising … killing bundling « BuzzMachine
[...] I think we’re seeing News Corp. milk the dying cash cow. Newspapers aren’t going to grow and will shrivel and sometimes die. The value of local [...]
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