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Media General, the Richmond, Va.-based owner of 19 television stations, said its fourth-quarter broadcasting revenue fell 7% from a year earlier largely due to a decline in automotive advertising, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Both national and local time sales fell…
Television advertisements for this week’s Super Bowl are receiving about 20% less blog chatter than last year, as past advertisers such as Procter & Gamble and Emerald Nuts aren’t including spots in this year’s broadcast, Advertising Age reports, citing Nielsen…
In another sign of how the struggling economy is affecting the television business, the Disney-ABC Television Group on Wednesday announced that it was cutting jobs across the board. Layoffs had already quietly begun at the company, insiders said. In all,…
CBS and David Letterman are in discussions to extend his late-night talk show deal beyond 2010, Broadcasting & Cable reports, citing people familiar with the process. With Conan O’Brien about to take over for Jay Leno at NBC, CBS officials…
CBS is pushing forward with its annual upfront presentation to advertisers. The network has locked in Wednesday, May 20, for its dog-and-pony show, CBS sales chief Jo Ann Ross said. As per recent CBS tradition, the event will take place…
Former MTV President Christina Norman has been named CEO of Oprah Winfrey’s new cable network, OWN, which is a joint venture with Discovery Communications. Ms. Norman, who left MTV last year, will start her new job Feb. 17. She’ll be…
Google said it has begun including time-shifted viewership data in reports for its Google TV Ads clients. The data is being generated to provide advertisers “with insight into how and when viewers see your ads during DVR playback of recorded…
YouTube is in talks with the William Morris Agency to sign a deal that will bring content created by the talent agency’s clients to the world’s biggest online video site, the New York Times reports, citing unnamed sources familiar with…
ABC has held meetings to discuss the possibility of moving “Jimmy Kimmel Live” into “Nightline’s” slot in order to directly compete with NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” the New York Times reports, citing unnamed sources familiar with the discussions. ABC executives…