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Media Man News: Don Lemon, Tucker Carlson Out: Bet Who's Next - 24th April 2023
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Don Lemon, Tucker Carlson Out: Bet Who's Next
Shockwaves in the world of cable news as two of the more controversial personalities have been ousted.
CNN and Fox News released statements at nearly the same time that Don Lemon and Tucker Carlson will be exiting their respective networks and now BetOnline has released odds on the next to go in the world of cable news.
Gambling911.com has released its preliminary odds with Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro each listed at -120 odds. But rumors that John King will be replaced by his ex-wife Dana Bash as host of CNN's "Inside Politics" and the usual Jim Acosta firing rumors have both men with short odds (King at 6-1 and Acosta at 3-1). King would likely continue his role as political commentator at CNN.
Actual BetOnline Odds Up Now
Who will be the next Fox News or CNN host to leave position?
Jeanine Pirro (Fox) 2-1
Mark Levin (Fox) 3-1
Jim Acosta (CNN) 4-1
Laura Ingraham (Fox) 4-1
Maria Bartiroma (Fox) 6-1
Sean Hannity (Fox) 7-1
Erin Burnett (CNN) 25-1
Anderson Cooper (CNN) 50-1
Jake Tapper (CNN) 50-1
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OANN 2-1
Rumble 3-1
Breitbart 4-1
Newsmax 5-1
Netflix 16-1
Amazon Prime 20-1
ABC 25-1
CBS 25-1
Truth Social 25-1
Politico 30-1
Axios 40-1
NBC/MSNBC 40-1
CNN 50-1
Fox media reporter and host of "Media Buzz", Howie Kurtz, is right up there at 5-1 odds as well. Mark Levin comes in at 4-1 odds. He hosts as Sunday show on Fox News.
MSNBC news personalities seem to be on solid ground for the moment with the exception of Chuck Todd, who is sometimes ridiculed within the Twitterverse.
Fox Corp last week settled for $787.5 million with Dominion Voting Systems over defamation charges. Kurtz was mostly silent on the issue. Bartiromo and Carlson were not, and their on air commentary and/or failure to challenge certain accusations likely led to the lawsuit. That being said, only one of the 20 allegedly defamatory Fox broadcasts mentioned in the lawsuit came from Carlson’s top-rated show.
Dominion did get its hands on Carlson’s group chat with fellow Fox primetime stars Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, all of which were widely publicized. Carlson privately contended that the 2020 presidential election had not been stolen, all the while offering different takes via his popular television show. Tucker's show is the most watched cable news network program.
This statement appeared on the Fox News website shortly after the 12 pm ET hour.
"FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.
"Mr. Carlson’s last program was Friday April 21st. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named.
"FOX News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio, FOX News Books, the direct-to-consumer streaming services FOX Nation and FOX News International and the free ad-supported television service FOX Weather. Currently the number one network in all of cable, FNC has also been the most watched television news channel for more than 21 consecutive years, while FBN ranks among the top business channels on cable. Owned by Fox Corporation, FOX News Media reaches nearly 200 million people each month."
Don Lemon's ouster came as little surprise following a rocky start to his morning show hosting duties.
“I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated. I am stunned,” Lemon wrote in a statement posted to Twitter.
Lemon had worked for the network for 17 years.
In recent months, Lemon berated his on-air co-host Kaitlan Collins and made an ageist and sexist remark pertaining to Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley "not being in her prime".
"Nikki Haley isn't in her prime. Sorry," he said. "When - a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s."
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Everyone’s talking about artificial intelligence (AI). As of March, there were 36x as many posts on LinkedIn mentioning Generative AI compared to a year ago. For the world of work, this is just the beginning of a paradigm shift. Hear from LinkedIn’s Aneesh Raman on why this conversation brings new urgency to the need for everyone to adopt a skills-first mindset.
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A.I is a most interesting and trending topic. A main challenge/problem of A I remains that it is bias (not balanced). By nature humans have bias, belief systems, preferences, and and such. This is written in and reflected in the A.I code. As per tech entrepreneur Elon Musk quote "AI can be trained to lie"). A Musk developed AI will be different to a ChatGPT, will differ to a Bing etc. The flow on effect. Humans are the programmers and developers (at least at this stage of the game!). I have my bias and I'm the first to admit it. Man/human over machine. The machine to serve man. Not mankind to be a slave to the machine and The Internet Matrix Of Things. Higher Power in the struggle with the "God Of Machines" ala Ex Machina or Dues ex Machina! Love of machines! Einstein vs Nikolas Tesla elements on God, algorithms and much more. The business of just about everything including technology platforms and commercial news media I hope this makes sense to the readership. Maintaining the balance between the commercial and tech world and that of Mother Nature. A public thank you to LinkedIn powers that be for hosting this discussion.
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
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Kerry Packer Aussie Legend Live On Via Art And TV
Media Man revisits one of their most popular news stories from 2010...
G'day punters, casino and gambling millionaires and billionaires, media magnates, journalists, historians and art lovers. Art lovers?! Yes, today we bring you a special Kerry Packer special. The legend lives on, not only here, but now at an Australian artists exhibition, and of course 'Our James' (James Packer) continues to fly the flag and do the family legacy proud with his Crown Limited empire. Not only that, we also cover the pending return of KP to Australian television in an ABC mini series tipped to hit the jackpot, and Network Nine is bringing back 'Underbelly', complete with gambling themes.Media Man and Gambling 911 present The Kerry Packer Special...
Kerry Packer & Friends...
Kerry Packer & Friends - NG Art Gallery - 7th Dec - 24th Dec 2010
3 Little Queen Street
Chippendale, NSW Sydney AUSTRALIA
Tuesday - Saturday 11.00am - 5.30pm
Ok punters, here's the rundown. The artist - storyteller is Gina Sinozich. She's an 80 year old, Croat, Sydney based artist who paints in order to help recycle memory. Sinozich's latest exhibition, Kerry Packer and Friends, is her first solo commercial effort in Sydney and is tells the story of the legendary Kerry Packer. She covers the unique personality and complexities of a legend who was known for his astronomical wealth, super whale gambling exploits, running his business with an iron fist, and colourful run ins with the Australian government, amongst other things.
Sinozich migrated down under to Australia is 1956 and began to paint at the age of 75, now having work in Australian and New Zealand corporate and public collections. Her show showcases Packer as 'one of us' rather than the untouchable media tycoon. Sinozich was inspired to tell the story on the premise that we often hear bad before good. This tribute to KP is generous and reveals alot of the most powerful men in the world, who in 2004, was estimated to have a net worth of AUD 6.5 billion. The work of Sinozich will be showcased at NG Art Gallery from the 7th-24th of December and is certain to excite audiences, punters, art lovers or both. A fews Aussie commentator think this blows away much of the art that American gambling tycoon Steve Wynn shows off. Maybe Wynn might like to make a purchase of some classic Packer creations.
Sinozich says Packer gave back to society in a meaningful way and the series was intended to stand as a testament for this man's intrinsic goodwill after his death in December 2005. She recites a story that fuelled her initial interest in Packer, "...one lady said that she was on George Street with two little kids behind her and she was running...running to go on the train, and he (Packer) stopped her and said, 'don't you have a car?' and he wrote a cheque for her and said here, 'buy yourself a car'." Sinozich also fondly recalls, "...when he was playing in casino in Perth he won so much money and the girl who was serving wine...he asked her, 'do you have a mortgage on the house?' she said 'yes', then he wrote a cheque for AUD 600,000."
The talented, even cunning, artist worked like a Trojan horse for a fortnight and managed to produce 26 paintings that deeply explore her subject's nature, removing much of the mystic of Packer as an uncompromising media mogul. All the characters in Sinozich's work have a yarn to tell, and most aspects of his life are covered... birth, death, and much of the in between. Make no mistake, the works are smart, and unique, and are tipped to become collectors items.
The work is relatively simple, but full of life, and has been described as "traditional representational painting", which one may argue is a dying art. We think KP would have liked the tribute, and we await word to see what living members of the Packer clan think of the works.
Kerry Packer Legend To Return To Australian TV In Cleo Mini Series...
Packer is to return to life on Aussie TV via new ABC drama Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo (not to be confused with the Cleopatra slot game).
Australian readers may recall the public backlash to the introduction of the super sexy womens’ title in 1972. There were Cleo lovers and haters, but we're still talking about it today, so it made an impact, which is better than many of today's rags.
Rob Carlton will play a young Packer opposite Asher Keddie as publishing pioneer, the sexy and smart Ita Buttrose.
Rumours of a sexual relationship between Packer and Ita around the time of Cleo magazine's start off, but this won't be a focus on the mini-series, due to air next year.
Buttrose, who first made her mark as the magazine's editor, was a consultant on the production.
"If there was a supposed affair it didn't happen in this timeframe. I have no idea if there was, we didn't raise it with her," Edwards said.
There ABC publicity brief has whet our appetite for lots of Packer classic stuff and enough scandal to keep us coming back for more.
"It's 1972. Skirts are up, pants are down. Girls can have anything: Fabulous careers, fashionable clothes and oral sex," spruiks the promo.
The drama cleverly follows the death of Sir Frank Packer and the rise of his second son, who defies even family expectation to succeed, in a way no one could have expected.
"It was a real turning point in Kerry's career. It was a period when he made his first big move and it was an astonishing success and one against the odds in some respects," Edwards said.
Cleo magazine itself was a fine, yet controversial work, and introduced the nude male centrefold and sexual hits, tips, tricks and more for women. Media Man friend, actor Jack Thompson, is tipped to have his racy centrefold recreated. Something about a 6th finger, down there.
ABC TV by all accounts have taken a calculated risk on the series. Most quarters of society, both insiders and outsiders we've chatted with believe the gamble will pay off with a tidy jackpot, and whispers already circulate as to how many awards the show and actors will pick up.
Nine's David Gyngell Respects Packer History; PBL Becomes Nine Entertainment Co...
KP put Publishing & Broadcasting Media on the map and grew it to become arguably the biggest media brands in Australia.
PBL - the name, is now history, since Bondi Beach based chief executive, David Gyngell, rebranded it with Nine Entertainment Co.
Gyngell, who announced the rebranding at Nine's 2011 program launch in Sydney on Friday, advised the new name would be more recognisable to the public and large and went on to emphasise Nine's broad range of businesses, which sport Nine, ACP Magazines, Ticketek and NineMSN.
The recognition factor is important since the firm is likely to be floated on the Australian Stock Exchange by its private equity owners, CVC Asia Pacific, in the first half of next year.
It's understood that a strong level of support from a host of retail investors will be key to the $5 billion-plus float's chances of a jackpot.
Gyngell wisely acknowledged it was not an easy decision given he is the late Kerry Packer's godson and great mate of James Packer. History buffs, just in case you wondered, PBL was formed way back in 1994 when KP merged Nine with ACP (Australian Consolidated Press).
"PBL has a long association with the Packers so personally I don't take that lightly. But it's modernising a business that needs to be publicly known. We don't have the luxury of having James Packer or another mogul giving the company real gravitas."
Other media updates down under include Network Seven being backed by Kerry Stokes and Network Ten's board now has James Packer, News Corporation director Lachlan Murdoch, mining magnate Gina Rinehart and WIN TV owner Bruce Gordon.
"Nine is the biggest thing that we have and it is also the thing that supports all the other companies in the best possible way," Gyngell said. "It will be a new year. We are starting again.
Nine confirmed its crime drama Underbelly would come back with a series set in the roaring 20s in Sydney as well as 3 Underbelly movies! And, get this, a good spot of gambling will also be featured.
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Media Man News Blog: SEO for Businesses
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SEO for Businesses
In today's digital landscape, businesses must harness the power of search engine optimization (SEO) to stay competitive and thrive. In this comprehensive guide, we'll explore the numerous benefits of SEO for small businesses and provide actionable tips to help you maximize your online presence.
Introduction to SEO for Small Businesses
SEO is the process of optimizing your website and online content to improve your visibility on search engines like Google. By implementing effective SEO strategies, small businesses can enjoy a myriad of benefits, such as increased organic traffic, better user experience, and higher conversion rates.
Increased Visibility and Brand Awareness
SEO helps small businesses rank higher on search engine results pages (SERPs) for relevant keywords. This increased visibility leads to greater brand awareness, as users are more likely to discover and engage with your business online.
Actionable Tip: Perform keyword research using tools like Google Keyword Planner to identify high-traffic keywords relevant to your business.
Enhanced User Experience
Optimizing your website for SEO often involves improving user experience (UX), such as faster loading times, mobile responsiveness, and intuitive site navigation. A better UX leads to higher user engagement, lower bounce rates, and improved search rankings.
Actionable Tip: Conduct a site audit to identify areas for improvement and implement changes to enhance UX.
Cost-Effective Marketing
Compared to traditional marketing channels, SEO is a cost-effective way to reach your target audience. By investing in SEO, small businesses can generate a higher return on investment (ROI) and allocate their marketing budget more efficiently.
Actionable Tip: Focus on creating high-quality, shareable content to attract organic traffic and backlinks, reducing your reliance on paid advertising.
Targeted and Sustainable Traffic
SEO enables small businesses to attract targeted traffic by ranking for industry-specific keywords. This ensures that the visitors to your site are interested in your products or services, increasing the likelihood of conversion. Additionally, effective SEO strategies result in sustainable, long-term traffic growth.
Actionable Tip: Create and optimize content that addresses the needs and interests of your target audience.
Improved Conversion Rates
By attracting targeted traffic and providing an exceptional user experience, SEO can lead to higher conversion rates. Users who find your website through organic search are more likely to convert into customers, as they are actively seeking solutions that your business offers.
Actionable Tip: Optimize your website for conversions by using clear calls-to-action (CTAs) and simple, user-friendly forms.
Establishing Authority and Trust
A well-optimized website with valuable content and a strong backlink profile establishes your business as an authority in your industry. By ranking high on SERPs, users perceive your brand as trustworthy, which can significantly impact their purchasing decisions.
Actionable Tip: Produce high-quality, informative content and collaborate with industry influencers to build your online reputation and earn valuable backlinks.
Competitive Advantage
Investing in SEO helps small businesses stay ahead of the competition by ranking higher on search results for relevant keywords. By dominating the search results, you can capture a larger market share and increase your brand's visibility.
Actionable Tip: Perform a competitive analysis to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your competitors' SEO strategies and capitalize on any gaps in the market.
Long-term Success
SEO is a long-term investment that can yield significant benefits over time. As search engines continue to evolve, businesses that prioritize SEO will be better equipped to adapt to changing algorithms and maintain their online presence.
Actionable Tip: Stay updated with the latest SEO trends, SEO Tools and best practices to ensure your strategies remain effective and future-proof.
Conclusion
By leveraging the power of SEO, small businesses can enjoy numerous benefits, including increased visibility, enhanced user experience, cost-effective marketing, targeted and sustainable traffic, improved conversion rates, authority and trust establishment, competitive advantage, and long-term success. To maximize these benefits, consistently monitor and refine your SEO strategies to stay ahead in the ever-changing digital landscape.
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Sunday, April 23, 2023
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What the media has said about wrestling over the years, by Greg Tingle
"Identity. It takes a lifetime to find. Another thousand lives to know if it's even really yours. And then in the matter of 3 seconds it can be completely destroyed. Mr Nakamura, you see these cards. I didn't hurt all these people"... Karrion Kross
Wrestling Op: The current slow build of Karrion Kross on the main roster of WWE reminds us somewhat of the slow build once upon a time of Steve Williams aka "The Ringmaster" Steve Austin who later became "Stone Cold" and caught on fire at KOTR #wwe #TickTock
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