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Comment on NHK starts 24-hour English-language service by Leonard

Leonard — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:47:45 +0000

Good to know this news and look forward to NHK performance. It’s like a fad that many countries are considering, establishing and operating their own English channels. France24, Arirang, just to name a few. Taiwan government has mentioned it before, but haven’t heard about the development for a while.

Comment on Television industry in Japan faces huge losses by 塩山・shioyama » Blog Archive » NHK starts 24-hour English-language service

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:11:51 +0000

[...] this is all very interesting. I’ve said before that I would put my bets on NHK as the winner of the whole media shakeup in Japan, not only in [...]

Comment on The day Japan’s netizens turned news on its head by shio

shio — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:30:32 +0000

Thanks Yazan!

Comment on The day Japan’s netizens turned news on its head by Yazan

Yazan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:13:03 +0000

The article is brilliant Chris. Thanks for sharing.

Comment on Waiwai from the inside out by Modern Media Japan - building connections through digital media

Modern Media Japan - building connections through digital media — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:50:12 +0000

[...] those of you who live here and/or follow the state of media in Japan, in the wake of the incredible WaiWai madness, The Mainichi Shimbun could do worse than taking Seth’s advice. Why can’t they make a [...]

Comment on Television industry in Japan faces huge losses by admin

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:05:56 +0000

Hi Adam,

I’ll have to have a look at that ZAITEN article. I agree that this is not the end for TV networks, but the 70% figure was what really surprised me. I’m also quite curious to see what happens with the NHK. They seem to be the only one with a chance to really gain from this whole thing… articles like this one would seem to indicate that they have something up their sleeve.

Only time will tell, I guess.

Comment on Television industry in Japan faces huge losses by Adamu

Adamu — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:58:54 +0000

I have been thinking about this news, and a recent article from ZAITEN magazine takes the right tack, IMO (you have to check newsstands to read it unfortunately).
Basically, the economy is hurting ad revenue more than anything else. One bad year does not mean the networks are all facing bankruptcy, but there are some troubling trends on the horizon.

Old media ad revenue is down industry wide, and not even the Olympics were able to help them out much.
However, the ad revenue drop is coming more from the faltering economy than the Internet, despite its high growth rates.
As it stands, NHK is beating the for-profit networks in prime time. They are offering smart news and documentary programming aimed at middle aged viewers. This poses a problem for the TV industry as it shows the younger generation is (a) shrinking; and (b) being driven from TV to the Internet.

Comment on Interviewed by Asahi’s Komimi by El Oso » Blog Archive » [Translation] The change in Japan’s record industry

Fri, 16 May 2008 20:10:33 +0000

[...] it is interesting news in itself, and because I know that my friends Chris and Hanako are interested in blog posts about Japan in the non-Western world, here is my translation of a brief blog post by Mariano Amartino about the increasing profits by [...]

Comment on Interviewed by Asahi’s Komimi by Juan Arellano

Juan Arellano — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:16:26 +0000

Here you have it in spanish…

http://arellanos.blogspot.com/2008/03/chris-salzberg-de-global-voices-desde.html

Comment on Interviewed by Asahi’s Komimi by Amira

Amira — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:40:20 +0000

Well done Chris!

“Mass media reporting conveys the world in a way that is easy to understand. Blogs teach us how complicated the world really is.”

And this statement does make a lot of sense.