Why Jon Stewart's Business Plan is WinningHumor Wins Whenever Incompetence RulesJon Stewart is a gifted comedian who, much like Will Rogers of several generations ago, has long mined the ever present and rich resource of government nonsense. It is Jon's great fortune that the grotesquely bloated government bureaucracies today...
If there were ever serious consideration of giving the CBS Evening News anchor chair, or one of the chairs, to comic Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central's Daily Show, Stewart put the kibosh on it on Access Hollywood last week. ...
News viewers might have gotten a small taste of why Comedy Central's Jon Stewart above works so well on cable but so far hasn't found a home on a broadcast network. During NBC's State of the Union postgame last Tuesday, NBC's Tom Brokaw got ... ...
CINCINNATI -- The transcript of comedian Jon Stewart's not-so-funny October debate with CNN "Crossfire" hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala was the No. 1 "blogged" news item of 2004 at BlogPulse.com, according to marketing intelligence firm Intelliseek.
Paramount Domestic Television last week green-lighted its Jon Stewart syndicated late-night talk show for a fall launch. The young-adult-oriented show has cleared 80 markets representing 75% of U.S. viewing households, including 19 of the top Paramount Domestic Television...
Apple Computer Inc. will show some pricing and packaging flexibility with its iTunes video-download service by offering a $9.99 monthly subscription package for Comedy Central's The Daily Show With ]on Stewart and The Colbert Report. The new ...
Byline: edited by Valerie Block Biographer turns pen on McCain Edward klein, the controversial biographer who penned a poisonous portrait of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, has a new target. His latest proposal making the rounds with publishers tak Byline: edited by...
Phil Busch, Mr. Olympia, is used to taking on huge challenges and this one is no different. Busch has filled a lawsuit against Viacom, MTV d/b/a Comedy Central and Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" for misuse of his image. Busch was misrepresented, as a sponsor of a Diet...
Networks Face a Tough Balancing Act The effect of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon continued to ripple through the cable industry, as networks scrambled to adjust their schedules and remove any programs th ...
Billionaire oil man and BP Capital founder T. Boone Pickens has never been shy. Last night he appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to stump for his Pickens Plan to wean America off of foreign fossil fuels and talk about his new book, "The First Billion is...
There's some interesting new evidence to buttress our argument that Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" has a superior content strategy underlying its successful business model -- specifically, in terms of its news programming decisions. In television and radio, and in certain types of online environments, the art...
It's that time of year again, time for the BNET Media Industry Award for the Best Political Report on Television, that is, in the Context of the Best Business Plan. I've been an vocal admirer of Comedy Central's Jon Stewart for several years now, but what he...
NEW YORK — It proved to be more than a joke when David Letterman said in late September that "the road to the White House runs through me." Presidential candidates found late-night comedy shows a particularly valuable asset during the 2008 campaign, making more than four times...
It proved to be more than a joke when David Letterman said in late September that "the road to the White House runs through me." Presidential candidates found late-night comedy shows a particularly valuable asset during the 2008 campaign, making more than four times the number of...
It proved to be more than a joke when David Letterman said in late September that "the road to the White House runs through me." Presidential candidates found late-night comedy shows a particularly valuable asset during the 2008 campaign, making more than four times the number...
