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The Big Ten Network named three former conference hoops figures as its announcing team for the college basketball season. Former Purdue coach Gene Keady, two-time Big Ten player of the year Jimmy Jackson and former Northwestern star Tim Doyle will…
Shareholders have rejected the Dolan family’s bid to take Cablevision Systems Corp. private. Preliminary voting results from the company showed that an insufficient number of shareholders voted in favor of the $36.26 per share bid. Prior to today’s special shareholders…
In a landmark deal that underscores the seismic changes taking place in the television business, Google and the Nielsen Co. have joined forces in a strategic partnership that will provide demographic data from the ratings company to the world’s biggest…
Starcom Creates Mini-Awards Show on ESPN.com
Kaki Hinton is proud to tell the story about how she got into the advertising business. Ms. Hinton, formerly with Johnson & Johnson, joined MPG earlier this month as executive VP and managing director on the Sears Holdings account. She…
AMC’s Halloween Monsterfest is going online. Spooky cult films including Jack Hill’s “Spider Baby” and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Dementia 13” will be available on AMC’s Web site. AMC has been running Monsterfest since 1996. This year’s fest, featuring 240 hours…
Nine of the 10 most-viewed commercials in August appeared during an episode of CBS’ “Big Brother,” according to TiVo’s Stop Watch ratings service. That episode was only the 10th-most-watched show on TV that month, counting both live and delayed…
Limelight Networks, a digital media content delivery company, Tuesday introduced LimelightHD, a service that transmits high-definition media and digital content over the Internet. LimelightHD will allow companies to deliver HD-quality movies, TV shows, video clips and games directly to users’…