Phone books may be headed to intensive care unit
A media consultant believes that an old media standby, the telephone book, is a highly endangered species and may be well on its way to extinction. Like
Shoppers still shopping, so keep on promoting
Coupon company Eversave says that there is a lot of buying yet to be done this holiday season. Few shoppers are finished, and a...
DirecTV expands its Brazilian holding
DirecTV announced that it had completed the purchase of $604.8 million in stock of Sky Brazil from Globo Comunicação e Participações S.A. (Globo). That increased...
Tribune Media Services buys CastTV for online video navigation
End-user online video consumers are looking for that one-stop-shop app/solution that can deliver the most video choices easily, quickly and offers up only what...
Dannon agrees to pay $21M and tone down yogurt ads
It’s not every day that actress Jamie Lee Curtis shows up in a Federal Trade Commission document, but she did this time due to...
Now only three plans to reorganize Tribune Company
The Chapter 11 proceeding for Tribune Company drags on, but now creditors will have one less reorganization plan to pick from. One group of...
AP staffers protest lack of a contract
Members of the News Media Guild, who have been working without a contract at the Associated Press since the end of November, announced a
Nielsen modifies $2 billion IPO
Despite what you may have read elsewhere, The Nielsen Company is still out to raise $2 billion in its long-pending IPO. It has, however, slightly modified the mix of securities to be offered. In its latest
Journal divests a print business
Journal Communications announced that it had sold its IPC Print Services business to Walsworth Publishing Company. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
“Finding a...
Total Traffic Network enters Mexico City
We’ve all heard about how bad traffic in Mexico City can be. Now there’s a bit of data to help motorists, along with the...
Mike Pence possibly positioning for 2012
One of the members of the House of Representatives who has significant broadcast paragraphs on his resume is Mike Pence (R-IN). He passed on...
Americans' time online now equals television viewing
Americans now spend as much time on the Internet as they do watching TV. So says a new study released by Forrester Research. It detailed that people now spend 121% more time online than they did only five years ago. Of course much of the
Focus 360 opens San Francisco office
The rep firm has opened an office in San Francisco to be run by Bill Horton, who joins the company as account executive. Horton...
Dayton place: Cox building houses triple-threat media cluster
Cox Media Group has the bases covered in Dayton OH, and it has now brought them all into one facility, consolidating the real estate of a daily
GE gives shareholders another dividend increase
For the second time this year the board of directors at General Electric – still the parent of NBC Universal – has raised the...