When Amy Ballis arrived at her new job at MediaVest, there were a lot of familiar faces there to greet her. Over the course of her career, it seems, she’d worked for many of the media agency’s top executives. Ms….
It’s long been said that the best way to sell television is by using television. Now the Cinema Advertising Council is saying it’s the commercials in movie theaters that have helped cable television networks get viewers to tune in to…
Time Warner’s troubled AOL unit named former Yahoo exec Gregory Coleman as president of its Web advertising division, the Wall Street Journal reports. The paper says that AOL’s decision to replace Lynda Clarizio in the post is a sign that…
TNT’s ad-men series “Trust Me” was hit with a ratings plunge in its second week, as the program, which has drawn mixed reviews, garnered just 1.9 million viewers on Monday, down from its premiere of 3.4 million a week ago,…
Steve Zahn is in discussions to co-star in David Simon’s pilot for HBO’s “Treme,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Kim Dickens has been hired for the post-Katrina drama about the rebuilding of New Orleans, the trade paper says. Zahn would take…
Fran Kranz, one of the stars of Fox’s new series “Dollhouse,” talks about the show with the Los Angeles Times. “I play the whiz kid mad scientist behind the Dollhouse,” he tells the paper. “He’s the guy who understands and…
Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” has a book coming out in May that challenges the Republican Party to either reform or die, the Associated Press reports. The book’s title is “The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America’s Promise.”…
Rod Blagojevich, ousted last week as governor of Illinois, appeared on CBS’ “Late Show With David Letterman” Tuesday saying he still thinks people will realize “this is just one big misunderstanding,” the Associated Press reports. He laughed along with the…
Barclays Global Investment Fund has trimmed its stake in DirecTV Group over the past 12 months to less than 3% from more than 6%, Multichannel News reports, citing a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday. The filing gave…
Time Warner may lower the amount shareholders receive from its spinoff of its cable operaton, Bloomberg reports, citing an analyst who says just $3 billion of the $9.25 billion will go toward a stock buyback. The company is expected to…