Budgets and boring TV – Jeremy Goldkorn

From Danwei:

The new issue of AdAge China is online. Two items of interest:
- A profile of Sam Flemming, CIC Data founder and accidental China Daily contributor;
- A column by China ad agency veteran Larry Rinaldi, in which he describes his anguish after watching a week of May 1 holiday week TV, “surfing aggressively morning and night,” covering “60 to 70 channels, from terrestrial broadcasters like the national network CCTV, Beijing TV and Shanghai TV to satellite channels based in provinces like Anhui, Hunan and Jilin to small local channels”.[full text]