4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2008
⏱️ 29 minutes
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A makeover at MySpace continues to transform Hollywood into your space. We chat with MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe. Plus SAG and AFTRA's battle over the hearts and minds of its members.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Brodessa Ackner, and this is The Business. |
0:04.3 | So you still want to do the show business, and you think that you got what it takes. |
0:09.3 | I mean, you really got a rap and be all at. |
0:11.8 | But prepare yourself for the brakes. Check it out. |
0:14.2 | This week on the business, a makeover at MySpace continues to transform Hollywood into your space. |
0:20.8 | We'll chat with MySpace CEO Chris DeWolf. |
0:23.8 | Plus, Saginafters battle over the hearts, minds, and voicemail of its members. |
0:29.4 | But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan. |
0:31.9 | Go nowhere. It's the business from NPR. |
0:46.8 | Music from NPR. In the there's no hope for the future department, |
0:50.2 | Ad Age's TV editor Brian Steinberg took note of an interesting |
0:53.3 | Forrester research report last week. |
0:55.7 | It found that our consumption of video is expected to rise 25% to five hours per day by 2013. |
1:02.6 | That's compared with the four hours the average American watches these days. |
1:06.6 | Forrester defines video as stuff we watch on TV, but also computers, mobile phones, |
1:12.4 | portable media players, and even digital photo frames. |
1:16.3 | Now, worth mentioning is how much video we were watching just two years ago, 2.6 hours |
1:22.9 | of TV alone, according to the Labor Department's American Time Use Study. |
1:33.4 | Let's do some math, people. In just seven years, we've about doubled the amount of video we watch. |
1:40.0 | Assuming things continue at the rate they're going, by 2026, we'll be watching 10 hours of video a day. |
1:44.6 | And if labor negotiations continue the way they've been going, actors will still only be getting about a nickel per view. |
1:48.0 | But we'll get into that craziness a little later in the show. |
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