The Uncouth

"The proportion of people with an internet connection who watch TV online was 17% in 2007, compared with 8% the year before. Online advertising spend was up by almost 40% year-on-year, reaching £2.8 billion in 2007. For the first time, more money was spent on internet advertising than the combined ...

CD album sales were down 8.5 per cent in the first six months of the year compared with the same period last year. And in an indication of profit squeeze being felt throughout the industry, revenue from those album sales fell almost 11 per cent."...

"The country's arts sector fears the Conservatives are prepared to slash $50-million in cultural funding after discovering new cuts to federal arts programs. It has been revealed that three programs benefiting the film, television and music industries, totalling $4.3-million, will end as of next Mar ...

The city of Oslo has announced a plan to move several museums and its main library to a central waterside location near the harbour and close to the new NKr3.3bn ($500m) National Opera house....

Everybody wants to be first with a play. Premieres make more news, attract more grants and confer more prestige. There's often money involved--the theater premiering a play sometimes gets a piece of the subsequent action. It's understandable--and even applicable to other professions. Journalists pre ...