TiVo Elects Bill Cella to board
TiVo announced the election of Bill Cella to its Board of Directors. Cella's selection to TiVo's board increases the membership to 9, including 8...
ABC cuts Oscar ad rates
ABC, in a move that reverses years of escalating pricing, lowered the cost of spots for yesterday's Academy Awards show, reported The LA Times....
SD House Panel kills proposed ad tax
A proposed tax on advertising has been rejected by a South Dakota House committee after opponents said it would hurt the economy and be...
Infiniti adds College Basketball with ESPN and CBS
Last October, Infiniti announced its official sponsorship of Big Ten and SEC college basketball for the 2008-09 season. For the first time, the luxury...
Speed’s “Bullrun” gets multimedia campaign
Media Storm LLC (www.mediastorm.biz), a strategic media agency, has developed a new multi-platform media campaign for the premiere of “Bullrun,” an action-packed reality series...
GM to phase out Saturn division
G.M. said Tuesday that it would phase out its Saturn division by 2012. Until then it has no plans to develop any more new...
ESPN O&Os sign with ABC Regional Sports & Entertainment Sales
ESPN Radio’s five O&O stations are the latest clients of ABC Regional Sports & Entertainment Sales. ESPN 1050 New York, ESPN 710 Los Angeles,...
TMZ supporting $10,000 sweepstakes with spot cable, radio
“TMZ”, the source for Hollywood’s hottest headlines and breaking entertainment news, is giving viewers a chance to win $10,000 in cash and prizes plus...
GlobalHue creative launches DDDesign
After 20 years as one of the lead creative designers at GlobalHue, Damon Davis announced the opening of his new agency, DDDesign Advertising Southfield,...
A-B also sticks it to agencies
Agency fees are also being trimmed InBev's quest to trim $1.5 billion in costs out of Anheuser-Busch, according to AdAge. A-B has swapped its...
Anheuser-Busch to force slow pay on broadcasters
Now that Belgian-Brazilian conglomerate InBev owns Anheuser-Busch, some new policies in the way broadcasters (and vendors) are paid for ads have been unveiled. The new policy was delivered via
Report: Google TV: Still a Tough Sell
“In the past two months, Google has abandoned its efforts to sell newspaper and radio advertising. Will it pull the plug on its initiative to sell TV ads, too? Given the coming convergence of TV and
Why Google failed with Radio from the station level
Rick Guest, President, East Texas Radio Group, a Google Radio customer for 2 ½ years, tells RBR that as one of the earliest partners with dMarc
FOX rejects AHF Condom Ad during ‘Family Guy’
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) held is challenging KTTV-TV’s (Fox) refusal to broadcast a :30 second ad in which actress and AIDS activist Sheryl Lee...
Cathy Coughlin of AT&T to deliver RAB keynote
Cathy Coughlin, senior EVP and global marketing officer of AT&T, will deliver the advertiser keynote on the closing day of RAB2009. Coughlin’s keynote will...