I learned of the British Airways crash-landing at Heathrow yesterday from Richard Sambrook's blog, which is in my RSS reader. He happened to be waiting in an airport lounge, shot a phonecam picture, and posted it by mobile phone. Naturally I checked the Guardian, which was a bit slow out of the gate, the BBC, which was quite on top of things, and the Times, which was somewhere in the middle.
Tossed casually into a meandering media story in Sunday morning's New York Times is a reference to Spot Runner, a significant new Web-based ad service -- it's in beta -- that lets small businesses schedule local video advertising on cable/broadcast systems.
For the life of me I can't figure out what AdSense would look like on a radio station, but Cnet is reporting that Google has bought DMarc in a deal that starts out at $102 million but could cost as much as $1.13 billion, depending on performance. DMarc's lines of business include station automation and station business processes, and a 500-station ad network.
