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TV Guide Network has reached a multi-year extension of a carriage agreement with Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable operator, the companies said Friday.
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:26am EST
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The count of Associated Press union employees laid off this week has risen to 90, which, according to the news cooperative, meets its goal of cutting annual payroll costs by 10 percent. It is the AP's largest cut in newsroom layoffs in memory, roughly 2 percent of its workforce.
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:17am EST
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To shift focus to OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, which she owns with Discovery Communications. The cable network expects to bow at the end of next year
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:12am EST
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The big news late yesterday was Oprah Winfrey’s decision to conclude her syndicated talk show in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air to concentrate on her upcoming cable network OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, a joint venture with Discovery Communications.
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:11am EST
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The McClatchy Co. announced today—on Facebook—that five of its papers are now available on the Kindle: The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram in Texas, the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News and the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:10am EST
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:18am EST
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Dominates all four major categories in the prime-time cable ratings race, marking the sports network’s first sweep since mid-October
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:08am EST
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Seeking an agency or agencies to help it with “corporate identity and design, advertising, media, digital, events and demand generation.”
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:51am EST
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Seeking an agency or agencies to help it with “corporate identity and design, advertising, media, digital, events and demand generation.”
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:51am EST
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A Senate committee on Thursday confirmed the nomination of, Victoria Espinel, President Obama's nominee for the top intellectual property enforcer in Washington. Espinel now must be confirmed by the full Senate.
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:47pm EST
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The New York Times is launching its latest "local" edition in Chicago on Friday in conjunction with the Chicago News Cooperative. The Chicago area report will appear on Fridays and Sundays in the New York Times.
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:37pm EST
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AOL is looking to cut approximately one-third of its overall workforce, and chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong is forgoing his 2009 bonus, the online company told employees Thursday.
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:12am EST
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Firms agree to work with game 1 vs. 100, a multiplayer, Web-based version of the popular TV game show that is played via Xbox Live
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:12am EST
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"There is not a lot to say," NBC Universal president and CEO Jeff Zucker said here Thursday when asked about the potential sale of a 51 percent stake in his company to cable giant Comcast Corp.
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:10am EST
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The News Corp.-owned social networking site is set to roll out a new, highly intrusive homepage takeover ad for The Twilight Saga: New Moon
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:28am EST
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NBC has ordered an ambitious culinary competition series with a prize that is among the biggest in reality show history.
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:55am EST
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The Malibu Media Platform, under development for two years, promises to automate many of the functions currently done ad-hoc by media buyers and sellers
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:33am EST
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:20am EST
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Consumers are going online to find out about holiday deals, but not necessarily to buy
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:58am EST
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Nearly two-thirds of Chinese officials say social media is China's most influential communications channel
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:50am EST
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In case critics of digital billboards didn’t notice the first two studies that show digital billboards are “safety neutral,” a third study was released Thursday (Nov. 19). Conducted by Philadelphia-based Tantala Associates in Cleveland, Ohio, the study is the largest study of digital-billboard safety yet conducted.
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:49am EST
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:40am EST
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Shareholders of Liberty Entertainment and DirecTV on Thursday approved the split-off of the Liberty Media business and its merger with satellite TV giant DirecTV Group, which Liberty Media has also controlled.
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:34am EST
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Garth Ancier is stepping down as president, BBC Worldwide America after three years. Ancier, who will exit in March, will continue to be associated with the company in a consulting capacity as a nonexecutive director and will continue to be a member of the BBC Worldwide America board.
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:29am EST
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:05pm EST
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Tara Comonte, CFO at Mediabrands, has been elevated to chief operating officer, a new post at the IPG media oversight arm.
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:04am EST
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Notional, a new production company housed at Barry Diller's IAC, unveiled its initial TV development and production slate Wednesday with several concepts looking to bridge TV and the Internet, such as a dance competition format called Ready, Set, Dance.
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:54am EST
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In our third installment of the series, Alan looks at AMC's Emmy Award–winning period drama Mad Men, and the evolving storyline of gay character Salvatore Romano (Bryan Batt), ex-art director at Sterling Cooper.
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:47am EST
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To mark the end of the decade, the editors at AdweekMedia will select the best marketing, media and agency performances from 2000 to 2009 across a total of 33 categories. These will be our choices for the people, companies, brands, products and creative work that most influenced the industry and [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:45am EST
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Satellite TV giant DirecTV has picked former PepsiCo top executive Michael White as its new president and CEO.
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:44am EST
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Hulu has partnered with EMI to offer a Norah Jones channel on the site. The deal will, at a later date, add content from other artists on EMI's labels including Virgin, Capitol and Blue Note.
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:09am EST
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Charles Ergen has decided to give up the president and CEO positions of EchoStar Corp., with Michael Dugan returning to the company to take them over. Ergen will remain chairman of the technology sibling of satellite TV firm Dish Network.
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:20am EST
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HollywoodLife.com, former Star and US Weekly editor Bonnie Fuller’s digital entrée into Hollywood news and gossip, has finally launched, and the site has announced that its content will be distributed across several top women-aimed Web properties, including NBC Universal’s iVillage and AOL’s Popeater.com blog.
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:48pm EST
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Nearly every major TV news organization has glommed onto the citizen journalism phenomenon. Networks ranging from CNN to Fox News to CBS regularly encourage users to submit cellphone videos or eyewitness reports of news happenings via their Web properties.
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:01pm EST
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Tyrangiel, 37, is the online managing editor of Time magazine and a deputy editor of Time magazine
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:30am EST
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Most travelers who log on to airport Wi-Fi stay on for 30 minutes or more, according to a new study by JiWire. The second Mobile Audience Insights Report, released today (Nov. 17), found that 81 percent of airport Wi-Fi users stay logged onto the Web for at least 30 minutes [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:01am EST
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Net is running a pair of evocative promos designed to communicate its ideology.
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:12am EST
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FCC’s proposal to reallocate some of the spectrum now held by TV broadcasters to mobile communications companies has caught the attention of lawmakers
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:25am EST
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Due to the proliferation of smartphones, consumers are talking a little less and using mobile devices for a host of other activities, including Internet access, text messages and e-mails.
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:01am EST
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As Discovery Communications and toymaker Hasbro continue to prepare for the launch of their cooperative kids’ TV venture, the developing network has named a handful of new hires.
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:43am EST
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Cox’s advertising services division will gauge audience reaction to The Office and Monk as well as certain technical processes necessary to enable successful dynamic insertion
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:35am EST
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Bob Saget will travel the country exploring strange American subcultures in a new reality series on A&E.
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:16am EST
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Debmar-Mercury talker The Wendy Williams Show has been renewed on the Fox Television Stations for another two years, taking it through the 2011-12 season. The pickup includes the Fox owned-and-operated stations in top markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Dallas.
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:38am EST
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A year after making widespread cuts at Mansueto Ventures, owner Joe Mansueto is pumping money into flagship Fast Company.
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:02pm EST
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:01pm EST
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Most agencies have a presence on social media sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, but infrequently use them to market themselves or pursue client prospects, according to a new survey from RSW/US and Second Wind.
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:07am EST
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The ink had barely dried on Google's $750 million deal to buy mobile ad network AdMob before some were saying it heralds "the year of mobile." Of course, the year of mobile has been predicted virtually annually for the past decade.
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:03am EST
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New research from Forrester has found that while a minority of consumers is willing to pay for online content, not all pay models are considered equal.
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:32am EST
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Business publications have been decimated in terms of ad spending this year, but marketers who have pulled out of the category might have missed a big opportunity to reach their target audience.
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:25am EST
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Time Warner late Monday said the the spinoff of AOL will happen on Dec. 9, with the online firm's shares starting to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol "AOL" on Dec. 10.
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:15am EST
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As the online ad network business continues to thrive—despite the ongoing recession and its enduring reputation for shadiness—more ad nets are turning to third-party auditors to help assuage the fears of risk-averse advertisers.
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:29am EST
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USA Network has reupped its rights deal with World Wrestling Entertainment, inking a new four-year pact that will keep the Monday night showcase WWE Raw on the channel through autumn 2014.
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:11am EST
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Univision Communications is partnering with Google's YouTube to make shortform and longform videos available on YouTube in the coming months in one of the online video site's biggest content deals to date. The deal comes at a time when Latinos are one of YouTube's fastest-growing segment.
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:15am EST
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Hulu is starting to show signs of why it’s not easy to run a joint venture between competitors. Recently, the popular video site’s various parents have sent mixed messages about Hulu’s future business model—and whether or not it will erect some sort of paid subscription wall.
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Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:10am EST
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With fewer than 90 days to go before the Olympic torch arrives at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, NBC Universal still has a solid chunk of inventory left to sell. And while the ad marketplace has begun showing signs of life in the past few weeks, the Peacock faces an [...]
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Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:09am EST
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Beleaguered by the recession, some publishers are starting to talk about outsourcing more of their operations, including even the normally safeguarded area of sales and marketing.
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Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:08am EST
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Nielsen’s move to make the live-plus-same-day metric (LSD) the local TV currency may have pleased the broadcast clients that spend the most on local TV ratings, but it’s got the clients that spend the most in the medium up in arms. Several major buying shops are hoping to convince Nielsen [...]
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Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:07am EST
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In a year like the media and agency businesses have had, all-star caliber executives really come in handy. When your department’s been cut down from 15 to three, you have to be smart, patient and resourceful to generate results when others might give up. Jeanine Swanson, one of our dozen [...]
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Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:06am EST
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Just a few years ago, social networking site Facebook became an almost overnight sensation, propelled by a college-age crowd that saw the site as an exclusive sanctuary to connect with peers.
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Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:05am EST
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Faced with irate radio buyers who were stunned by its change in streaming audio metrics, Ando Media has held a Webcast to do damage control. The sole provider of Internet radio ratings, Ando changed the metrics to those based on session counts. The radio-type metrics are only available from the [...]
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Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:04am EST
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AFTRA's membership ratified its new interactive media agreement with videogame employers Thursday. Just two weeks earlier, SAG rejected the same deal, asking the companies to return to the bargaining table.
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:23pm EST
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The Miami Herald is the latest metro daily to join the hyper-local Web world, with plans to start a network of online sites focused on five of its communities before the end of 2009.
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:19pm EST
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Online content can be "much better" and will be the focus of the next development stage of the Internet, AOL chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong said here Friday.
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:09am EST
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Auto advertising has been in the dumps since 2005, but it should improve next year. According to new report from Borrell Associates, released Friday (Nov. 13), total auto advertising across all media segments will inch up 4.1 percent to a little over $19.1 billion in [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:08am EST
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A feud over staffing issues at People came to a head this week as the magazine’s union accused the publication of overworking its editorial staffers—a spat that could have wider repercussions at the company.
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:07am EST
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For private equity players in the media space it’s also tough slogging. That was the view of the co-founder and president Royce Yudkoff of Abry Partners, a firm that has invested some $20 billion over the last 20 years in companies in the sector.
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:18am EST
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Paid content models will emerge, but publishers need to figure out how to target the right content to the right audience over the right platform.
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:55am EST
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Speaking at the annual Media and Money confab Thursday morning, Chase Casey said he believes Comcast’s play for NBC Universal is “a good deal” and “smartly structured.”
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:42am EST
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The NFL's various current TV deals are working out well, including the one that provides NFL Sunday Ticket exclusively on DirecTV, Steve Tisch, chairman and co-owner of the New York Giants, said here Thursday.
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:34am EST
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BermanBraun is looking to roll out next year more mass-appeal Web sites like its celebrity site Wonderwall on MSN and build out its sales force to sell to demos across them, co-founder Lloyd Braun said Wednesday.
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:59am EST
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:52am EST
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Jointly develop research methodology that will help brands track visits to their Web sites or search queries that result from in game ad campaigns
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:00am EST
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:56am EST
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Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei signaled here Thursday that he won't leave his post to become CEO of DirecTV and said that Comcast Corp. could do well if it seals a deal for a controlling 51 percent stake in NBC Universal.
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:15am EST
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The Internet is becoming a panacea to soft newsstand sales at Hearst Magazines, as the company predicts it will sell more than half its subscriptions via the Web next year.
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:12am EST
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The battle between TV networks and their affiliates for retransmission dollars could be heating up. Perry Sook, the outspoken chairman, president and CEO of Nexstar Broadcasting said Wednesday (Nov. 11) that retransmission dollars belonged to the stations, not the networks.
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:11am EST
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:59am EST
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Discovery Communications has decided to take its longstanding news channel on Discovery.com and let it stand on its own.
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:50am EST
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CNN anchor Lou Dobbs on Wednesday announced he was leaving the news network, telling viewers he was granted an early release from his contract.
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:42am EST
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Continental and Winstar are banking on the appeal among brands of reaching the site’s 10 million monthly unique users, most of whom are in a trip-planning frame of mind
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:34am EST
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Current TV, the cable channel founded by former Vice President Al Gore, has begun overhauling its programming model, a process that began Wednesday with the elimination of 80 full-time staff positions.
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:58am EST
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HuffPost Sports will feature signature mix of breaking news, aggregated stories, community, video and guest celebrity bloggers
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 4:33am EST
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Recently introduced Wednesday 8 p.m. ABC sitcom Hank, headlined by former Cheers and Frasier star Kelsey Grammer has ceased production immediately, and will be replaced beginning next week by a combination of comedy repeats and holiday specials.
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:59am EST
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Bayer HealthCare has consolidated its U.S. media duties with Interpublic Group's Initiative after a review, according to sources.
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:50am EST
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Dollhouse is closing its doors at Fox. The network has canceled Joss Whedon's cult fave, which in May beat the odds with a second-season pickup despite low ratings.
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:39am EST
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More and more sports junkies are watching games on TV while simultaneously tethered to the Web—checking statistics, monitoring fantasy teams or talking trash with friends. Now the National Basketball Association is looking to embrace the multiscreen fan experience.
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 2:42am EST
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Layoffs are reportedly not part of a much larger restructuring that the embattled Web company is planning for either later this year or early next year
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:26pm EST
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Online ad exchange platform AppNexus has added an extra $5 million in funding to help the company build out its product.
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:06pm EST
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Electronic Arts said Monday that it lost $391 million in its fiscal second quarter and will lay off 1,500 people.
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:04pm EST
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Starbucks has given one of its best-selling coffees a new name and packaging. The move comes as the coffee giant looks to increase awareness of its community volunteerism efforts.
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:32am EST
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ABC has decided on the fate of two more freshman series—dramas The Forgotten and Eastwick.
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:09am EST
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First TV networks took away affiliate compensation. Now they’re going after a percentage of a TV station’s retransmission dollars. Some groups, such as Gray Television, are just saying no.
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:08am EST
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Under private equity and struggling with a financial reorganization, Clear Channel Media Holdings reported revenue down 17 percent to $1.4 billion in third quarter. Radio declined 17 percent to $703.2 million, an improvement over the 21 percent drop in the previous quarter.
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:06am EST
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Even digital out-of-home, one of the fastest-growing media, was not immune to the effects of the economy in 2009.
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:01am EST
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For the first time in over a year the Pittsburgh Steelers returned to the Monday Night Football lineup, and in so doing, the defending Super Bowl champs helped draw a crowd for ESPN.
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:36am EST
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Women are jumping at the chance to earn online points and virtual dollars, according to a new report from online marketing firm Q Interactive.
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 4:42am EST
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 4:37am EST
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CBS put in place Tuesday (Nov. 10) a new management structure for its local TV and radio broadcast operations. The new local broadcast organization, which combines TV and radio into one segment, was in keeping with the company’s new financial reporting structure revealed last week during its third-quarter earnings call.
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 4:29am EST
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Omnicom Group veteran Steve Grubbs, currently CEO of the holding company's sports and entertainment division, is leaving the firm at the end of the year. The news was disclosed to company employees in a recent e-mail from Omnicom Media Group CEO Daryl Simm.
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 4:03am EST
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The amount of gay and lesbian characters and subject matter is increasing exponentially on network and cable TV, and Mediaweek.com has noticed. So, we called on our video correspondent Alan Frutkin to investigate.
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 3:48am EST
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