In the basement of a car dealership in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District last spring, The Messenger chairman and CEO Jimmy Finkelstein addressed a throng of New York’s media elite. Finkelstein was there to unveil his grand plans for a new website that he claimed would revolutionize the news, talking a big game in the process.
“When I was at The Hill, we did 125 million visits a month,” he told the gathering that featured media heavyweights Barry Diller, Kara Swisher, Chris Licht and Jen Psaki. “It was the second highest political site next to CNN. That’s with 70ish journalists and maybe 90 people in the editorial. Here, we are going to have hundreds of journalists. We are not just covering politics, we are covering sports, we are covering business, we are covering entertainment. So it’s hard to imagine why we couldn’t do it.”
Sitting in the crowd watching...
“When I was at The Hill, we did 125 million visits a month,” he told the gathering that featured media heavyweights Barry Diller, Kara Swisher, Chris Licht and Jen Psaki. “It was the second highest political site next to CNN. That’s with 70ish journalists and maybe 90 people in the editorial. Here, we are going to have hundreds of journalists. We are not just covering politics, we are covering sports, we are covering business, we are covering entertainment. So it’s hard to imagine why we couldn’t do it.”
Sitting in the crowd watching...
- 2/6/2024
- by Lachlan Cartwright
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The British Soap Awards: ITV, 8.15pm
Phillip Schofield presents the annual ceremony from London's Hackney Empire, which recognises the best in the world of soap over the past year.
Coronation Street, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks and Doctors compete for the prestigious Best British Soap prize, while Helen Worth is awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award for playing Gail McIntyre on Corrie for 40 years.
Quirke, BBC One, 9pm
A brand new crime drama starring The Usual Suspects star Gabriel Byrne.
Set in 1950s Dublin, Byrne plays the city's chief pathologist Quirke. In the first of three episodes, a full post-mortem on a young recently deceased woman leads Quirke to confront his adoptive brother Malachy (Nick Dunning), as a long-buried secret threatens to be uncovered.
Harry and Paul's Story of the 2s: BBC Two, 9pm
Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse take a quirky look back at BBC Two's long history, parodying close to 50 different shows.
Phillip Schofield presents the annual ceremony from London's Hackney Empire, which recognises the best in the world of soap over the past year.
Coronation Street, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks and Doctors compete for the prestigious Best British Soap prize, while Helen Worth is awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award for playing Gail McIntyre on Corrie for 40 years.
Quirke, BBC One, 9pm
A brand new crime drama starring The Usual Suspects star Gabriel Byrne.
Set in 1950s Dublin, Byrne plays the city's chief pathologist Quirke. In the first of three episodes, a full post-mortem on a young recently deceased woman leads Quirke to confront his adoptive brother Malachy (Nick Dunning), as a long-buried secret threatens to be uncovered.
Harry and Paul's Story of the 2s: BBC Two, 9pm
Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse take a quirky look back at BBC Two's long history, parodying close to 50 different shows.
- 5/25/2014
- Digital Spy
Damon Albarn and Jeff Beck are among the stars making cameo appearances in Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse's BBC Two special.
Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos will air on Sunday (May 25) as part of BBC Two's 50th anniversary celebrations.
The "unique biography" of the channel will see Enfield and Whitehouse tell the story of the last 50 years with help from stars like Albarn, Beck, Klaxons and Chrissie Hynde.
They all appear in the parody of The Old Grey Whistle Test, which has been renamed in the sketch as the The Old Grey Wrinkled Testicle.
The show will parody around 50 different BBC Two shows from the last 50 years, including Monty Python, The Office and The Apprentice.
Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos will air on Sunday at 9pm on BBC Two.
Watch a trailer for Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos below:...
Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos will air on Sunday (May 25) as part of BBC Two's 50th anniversary celebrations.
The "unique biography" of the channel will see Enfield and Whitehouse tell the story of the last 50 years with help from stars like Albarn, Beck, Klaxons and Chrissie Hynde.
They all appear in the parody of The Old Grey Whistle Test, which has been renamed in the sketch as the The Old Grey Wrinkled Testicle.
The show will parody around 50 different BBC Two shows from the last 50 years, including Monty Python, The Office and The Apprentice.
Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos will air on Sunday at 9pm on BBC Two.
Watch a trailer for Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos below:...
- 5/21/2014
- Digital Spy
David Letterman will have you know that Led Zeppelin is his favorite band named after a kind of dirigible.
The three surviving members of the legendary rock group — Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones – granted a rare interview on The Late Show with David Letterman last night. Dressed modestly in tones of navy, black, and brown, the media-shy trio came across as genial if somewhat diffident.
Letterman tactfully kept the conversation to familiar territory, namely, music. Page lit up when he recalled listening to Buddy Guy’s Folk Festival of the Blues with his friend and fellow Yardbird Jeff Beck.
The three surviving members of the legendary rock group — Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones – granted a rare interview on The Late Show with David Letterman last night. Dressed modestly in tones of navy, black, and brown, the media-shy trio came across as genial if somewhat diffident.
Letterman tactfully kept the conversation to familiar territory, namely, music. Page lit up when he recalled listening to Buddy Guy’s Folk Festival of the Blues with his friend and fellow Yardbird Jeff Beck.
- 12/4/2012
- by Josh Stillman
- EW.com - PopWatch
Squishy robots, robots that can feel, and miniature autonomous robots that can set up a wireless network were among those displayed in a Manhattan showroom last night.
"Cool is awesome," said iRobot CEO Colin Angle yesterday, recalling one principle that led him to co-found the company 20 years ago, "but not enough."
iRobot is probably best known for the Roomba, the robotic vaccuum cleaner that has now sold over five million units. And indeed, one of the main reasons for yesterday's self-congratulatory iRobot gathering in midtown Manhattan was to remind consumers of Roomba's ever-improving floor-cleaning skills, in the run-up to the holiday season. ("I think it's the only vaccuum cleaner you can give to your significant other as a gift and not get in trouble," pitched Jeffrey Beck, president of iRobot's home robots division.)
But lesser known is that where iRobot really excels is in its cutting-edge robotics research, mostly funded...
"Cool is awesome," said iRobot CEO Colin Angle yesterday, recalling one principle that led him to co-found the company 20 years ago, "but not enough."
iRobot is probably best known for the Roomba, the robotic vaccuum cleaner that has now sold over five million units. And indeed, one of the main reasons for yesterday's self-congratulatory iRobot gathering in midtown Manhattan was to remind consumers of Roomba's ever-improving floor-cleaning skills, in the run-up to the holiday season. ("I think it's the only vaccuum cleaner you can give to your significant other as a gift and not get in trouble," pitched Jeffrey Beck, president of iRobot's home robots division.)
But lesser known is that where iRobot really excels is in its cutting-edge robotics research, mostly funded...
- 10/15/2010
- by David Zax
- Fast Company
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