[Tim Wilson]

I get every one of those except LEGAL drugs. What legal drugs would they think would entice you to edit for free? Oxy? Proactiv? Or was it quantity, like an entire tractor trailer of Chewable Flintstones?

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Vice President, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW

[Tim Wilson]

[Todd Terry] “after a couple of decades in the business I’ve never found anyone in broadcasting who wouldn’t take your money.”

I was kicking around in my head the idea that Univision and Telemundo wouldn’t want their off-hours littered with the famous, free ROS ads lamented so often in this forum, especially if they’re in English. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Networks should be able to protect their identities, and if yours has to do with the language spoken on it, sure, go for it.

(I have no idea if this is the case, but I could imagine some religious networks turning down the chance to insert, say, ads for bars.)

And maybe rather than get into a fight over the KIND of insertions they’d accept, and have to review a bunch of local ads, they just say no to the whole idea….

…but then why allow them on Mun2 or Galavision? Is it an experiment whose positive outcome might eventually lead to insertions on the main networks?

[Tim Wilson]

I just checked a 2011 report at Zonewire, and this jumped out at me:

Spanish-language networks are making inroads in the local cable ad market, with Galavision available for local insertion in nine of the top 10 TV markets, Mun2 available in five, ESPN Deportes in four, and CNN en Espanol, Fox Sports en Espanol and MTV Tr3s available in three.

Since I’m not taking the SAT I’m not going to try and figure out how many of the top 10 markets take no insertions on any Spanish-language networks, but it sounds like this is a real thing.

Conspicuous by its absence is Univision, the highest-rated Spanish-language network in the world. (Like Galavision, it’s based in Miami, and owned by Univision Inc.) Telemundo is #2, and also based in the US. It’s owned by NBC, so presumably Comcast has its fingers in there somewhere…but the only Telemundo network available for local insertion is the one directed at young audiences.

Making me wonder if this is a call being made at the top level of these networks, rather than the cable companies, or certainly local operators, who it seems would be only too happy to take local money. Or…what? And why is this even describable as a phenomenon?

Pretty interesting report, btw. I haven’t found the 2012 update because frankly, I got tired of wading through the Google results for “insertion.”

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Vice President, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW

[Tim Wilson]

Hey Paul,

Sorry to bug ya (didn’t mean to bug ya), but can you drop me a line when you get a chance? tim@creativecow.net

Much appreciated, and apologies again for the interruption…

Best,
Tim

PS. Nothing official. You’re not in trouble. LOL

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Vice President, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW

[Tim Wilson]

Elves. Elves decide.

We should really get them to make it happen more often. You’ve written a bunch of really great stuff for us, and we really appreciate it!

[Tim Wilson]

I’d start with services.creativecow.net. 🙂

tw

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Creative COW

[Tim Wilson]

It’s up to you I guess. Is it worth it for you for people to know that you ever had this particular thing to sell? If you sell gear regularly, I think the answer would be a strong yes, so people would look to you as a resource for that.

If it’s a one-off, maybe not.

But it’s up to you. Either way is fine.

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Vice President, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW

[Tim Wilson]

[Richard Campbell] “Already made my hotel reservation. Mostly in Central Hall,and the Starbucks line”

You’re right Richard – now is the time to start booking your place in the Starbucks line.

😉

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Vice President, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW

[Tim Wilson]

I mentioned Dylan’s Jack Frost, but yeah, a ton of musician’s pseudonyms, especially among The Beatles. Somebody could write a dissertation on them. Some of it was because they were whimsical lads (does Hari Georgison count as a pseudonym? he played on a TON of records under this name), some of it was to not overwhelm the credits — oooh! A Beatle played on it! — and let their friends stay in the spotlight.

A very few examples:

McCartney used Billy Martin to book studio time at Apple for his first solo album, and I don’t think he had his name on The Fireman at all, one of the best albums he ever did. He credited Percy Thrillington on RAM — indeed, one of the most common uses of Beatle pseudonyms was on their own records.

John was Mel Torment, Kaptain Kundalini, Dr. Dream, Dr. Winston O’Boogie, Dr. Winston O’Ghurkin, Reverend Thumbs O’Ghurkin, Dwarf MacDougal and a number of others on Walls & Bridges and Mind Games ALONE.

Ringo Starr was of course born Richard Starkey, but used names including Richie Snare and Roy Dyke.

The latter of those was for a George Harrison album Wonderwall Music, where Eric Clapton was Eddie Clayton.

Writing with Eric on Cream’s great (greatest in my mind) song Badge was the first time George used the name L’Angelo Misterioso, which he used quite a bit. Another of his most popular was Jai Raj Harisein.

And then a pile of one-offs for him:

Arthur Wax
Bette Y El Mysterioso
Carl Harrison
George O’Hara
George O’Hara-Smith
L’Angelo Misterioso
Nelson Wilbury
P. Roducer
Son Of Harry
Spike Wilbury

It’s obvious that most of these are winking, so I think a better name than stage name or pseudonym might even be “alias.” I don’t know that any of them, say, registered copyrights with any of these names….

So I guess there’s part of my dissertation. I have no idea if this has any legal or scholarly weight whatsoever, but here’s how I think of them:

–Stage name: consistently used by an artist as part of a visible public identity. Other musical examples: Slash, Axl Rose, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars, Tracii Guns, everybody in The Ramones and Motley Crue, Marilyn Manson, Kip Winger — oops, that’s his real name…..

Declan MacManus had his name legally changed to Elvis Costello…then legally changed it BACK, but only did one album under that name….

Elton John and Freddie Mercury were known under those names long before they started on the roads that led them to fame — so in that sense, almost NOT stage names…..

Oh yeah, Bono and The Edge. Sting.

–Pseudonym: obscuring identity, but also frequently to create a meaningful body of work separate from the artist’s other name(s).

–Alias: goofing around. I dunno though, maybe this category needs a better name than “alias”…but if it’s a wink where you’re supposed to also know (or guess) the real name, it’s somehow different from pseudonym I think…or is it just another category of pseudonym?

See? This is why I don’t actually write dissertations, even if it looks like I do.

Anyway, I haven’t thought as much about this as for movies, as my great-uncle Mike wasn’t a musician. LOL

And I should note that while Mike used pseudonyms aplenty, his wife, my aunt Dorothy, used a single stage name throughout her career. That’s how I learned this distinction so early on. LOL

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Vice President, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW

[Tim Wilson]

Thanks for the kind words. Always glad to disgorge my psychoses. LOL

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Vice President, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW