Media

It’s been talked about for a while in media circles and with today’s Boston Globe article it has become official common knowledge: The mere year-old sports station 98.5 The Sports Hub (WBZ-FM) is beating WEEI 850 AM in the ratings for key the demographics for sports radio (men 25-54). According to the article, The Sports [...]

Google launched its Instant search on Wednesday, September 8, 2010, and it will likely prove to be one of the major wathershed events in the history of Google search. Instant uses the keyword suggestion drop-down list to populate the search engine result page (SERP) even befor ethe user has submitted the search query by clicking [...]

If yes, write some drivel for Boston.com/Boston Globe about immigration. Any junk will do as long as it is in favor of immigration and wildly distorts and omits facts.

The young whippersnapper matching wits with two seasoned and weary veterans with a company’s future on the line. Am I thinking of The Bug Kahuna, In Good Company or Up In The Air? All three actually, but it is Up In The Air that has the widest and deepest approval by the cinerati, including an [...]

“This changes everything.” That’s what one developer told me as he watched Apple’s Steve Jobs demonstrate iAds at a keynote speech introducing OS4 for iPhone. iAds are ads displayed inside apps that run on iPhones and iPads. The supposed value-add of iAd ads is that they combine the emotional impact of TV commercials with the [...]

Adam Gaffin of Universal Hub fame has updated the directory of Boston blogs at BostonBlogs.com. He mentioned in a tweet that the churn of blogs is quite high so it is not a bad idea at all to check it out every now and then. The blogs are listed by Boston neighborhood – or city [...]

A couple of months ago we snapped the photos below of Boston sports radio station WBZ-FM 98.5 The Sports Hub‘s street team heading west on the Massachusetts Turnpike. The photographer tells me the driver in one of the vehicles laughed at the attention and also that there were hot chicks in them (she didn’t exactly [...]

[12/18 update: The first change in the aftermath of the birth of WBZ-FM was pretty dull. AM-890, Boston's ESPN Radio station, went silent in October and switched to a Spanish-language music format on December 3. Nothing yet has happened with the stronger signals of WEEI or WRKO.] Life can get boring if one demands a [...]

104.1 WBCN – the self-proclaimed Rock of Boston – will soon be moved from terrestrial glory to the Internet graveyard, as originally reported by Adam Reilly on his media blog at ThePhoenix.com. The station’s owner CBS is moving Mix (WBMX) from its current signal 98.5 to WBCN’s. 98.5 will in turn be taken over by [...]

I ran a small handful of keyword searches that are near and dear to me in Microsoft’s new search engine Bing today and found that the gossip section in the Boston Herald, the Inside Track Gals, used one of my pictures on May 11 to illustrate some item related to the the Boston Celtics Dancers. [...]