So far, it doesn't look that way, says Breslau. He hasn't encountered any pushy publicists trying to get their people on the air. When Breslau started booking guests for CNNfn three years ago, he says, about seven of the firms had cameras. That growth lets CNNfn and others be pickier. The pool is bigger of people who might make themselves available.
Some analysts continue to resist the pressure to jump in.
Take Salomon Smith Barney online media analyst Lanny Baker. If you type in Internet and the names of these three analysts in the search box of the Dow Jones Interactive database, Meeker's name pops up in 918 articles since early 1998. Blodget's appears 1,713 times. For Baker, the magic number is 124. He estimates he's been on TV less than a dozen times over the past 11 years.