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Kevin Reichard

Minnetonka, MN
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3 years 9 weeks

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Posted on 01/17/11 at 02:19 pm in response to The Vikings stadium puzzle: Can anyone put the pieces together?

It's financially suicidal to put one dollar into a Target Center renovation. There's not a single metro area in the United States that can support two major sports/concert venues: not Boston, not Manhattan, not Detroit (where the Pistons are poised to move downtown and the Palace downsized), not Chicago, not Newark. (It may work in LA, where Staples Center is so heavily booked MSG is buying the Fabulous Forum solely for use as a concert venue.) Instead of pouring public funds into two arenas...

Posted on 11/01/10 at 08:14 am in response to TC Jewfolk: Twin Cities lacks true Jewish deli experience

So you walked out of Mort's because the cashier couldn't understand your hipster mumbled request? Cripes, lox is on the Mort's menu. Whatever the faults of Mort's -- the baked cheese omelet is terrible -- they know lox.

There are plenty of Jewish delis in the Twin Cities; commentators have pointed out the three major contenders, and to that list I'd add Be'wiched and Fishman's. (Crossroads is underrated because of its location; put it in Uptown and it becomes an institution.) Sad that...

Posted on 10/28/10 at 05:36 pm in response to WWTC 'The Patriot' owners acquire Jesus.org

"According to Quantcast, Hot Air's traffic is roughly comparable to the Pioneer Press's Twincities.com.>

No. Twincities.com is directly measured, reaching an estimated million readers a month and is #1,809. Hotair.com is estimated at reaching 594,000 readers a month and is #3,342. David, that's not close to be roughly comparable, especially when the hotair.com numbers are not directly measured by Quantcast. It's been my experience that Quantcast actually overestimates traffic when...

Posted on 10/21/10 at 12:50 pm in response to Braublog's first Local Media web rankings

Lileks has a Quantcast rating at 98,810, Erik. That's the rough estimate, and in my experience Quantcast actually overrates the rough estimates versus the real numbers. If Quantcast is to be trusted, he's not close to anyone on this list.

Posted on 10/20/10 at 10:00 pm in response to Braublog's first Local Media web rankings

There are probably some technical reasons why KFAN isn't showing up; it could appear to the browser that it's a standalone site when it's a subdomain of a larger Clear Channel site. It's actually pretty common in a shared hosting environment; you would see it as kfan.com but on the server side it would be kfan.clearchannel.com or something like that.

This is why server-based tracking tools have their limitations and the more accurate tools are user-based, like Quantcast. Google...

Posted on 09/24/10 at 12:02 pm in response to Tom Horner's Vikings stadium plan: its strengths, its weaknesses

As analysts, Jay comes up short and as a politician Tom comes up short as well.

First, let's start with the fact that the Vikings would be profitable even if they played all their games at Minnetonka High School before a crowd of 1,000: the team's revenue sharing, league licensing revenues and local sponsorship deals assure that. (Pepsi alone pays $440 million to the NFL in a sponsorship deal; the Vikings get an equal share of that.)

Because of this base, Ed Roski Jr. in Los...

Posted on 09/23/10 at 08:38 pm in response to Tom Horner's Vikings stadium plan: its strengths, its weaknesses

"A new stadium would also likely be managed by a third-party facilities company/promoter, such as AEG, which operates Target Center"

Why do you say that? There's not a single NFL stadium run by the likes of an AEG or Global or Comcast-Spectacor. There's no way for them to make money on a football stadium: too much capacity and not enough music acts with the heft to fill them.

Posted on 09/02/10 at 01:51 pm in response to Minnesota Public Radio confronts ratings drop

@Marta: The Satellite Sisters were carried locally by FM107. They went podcast-only some time ago and are not on the radio, period. Can't really ding MPR for that one.

My only real contribution to this: MPR has worried so much about empire building -- like aggregation, online news, online-only radio -- that it's lost sight of its mission. Listening to an hour of local programming means a dozen or so pitches to unrelated online properties.

Posted on 08/13/10 at 04:54 pm in response to Why did Jim Dolan and Lynn Casey invest a million bucks in BringMeTheNews?

Thanks for the insight. Let's be clear about what the business model is: PR disguised as "news." For all the talk about aggregation and whatnot, the real model here is pushing the good news about clients to web and radio under the guise of the news. That's fine; too bad Kupchella and Dolan weren't honest enough to come right out and say so. Savvy investment for Lynn Casey: she can go out and sell this to clients in other cities and markets.

Posted on 08/09/10 at 09:15 am in response to BringMeTheNews gets $1 million investment from Dolan and Padilla Speer

I still say aggregation doesn't pay. And it won't. Bring Me the News is a radio news service with an online component.