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Lynda King has been named president of guerilla marketing for Local TV, Broadcasting & Cable reports. She will immediately be tasked to head “Project Duh,” which brings fresh eyes to old practices that don’t work, the newspaper says. King previously…
The Web site for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama had drawn 2.3 million unique users as of May; that’s four times as many as Sen. John McCain’s site, MediaWeek reports. Nielsen found that McCain’s site attracted 563,000 individual visitors,…
A report by Lehman Brothers analyst Anthony DiClemente states that the “film and TV businesses are on the verge of structural changes that appear to impact the core revenue and profits of entertainment business models,” Wired reports. DiClemente predicts the…
Sharp will introduce the first solar-powered TV set at the G8 Summit this week in Hokkaido, Japan, the New York Post reports. The 26-inch LCD TV uses about one-quarter the power and one-half the energy of an average LCD set,…
Fidelity Communications, the Missouri-based parent of Fidelity Cablevision, bought Oklahoma cable system Lawton Cablevision, Multichannel News reports. Fidelity will gain about 20,000 video subscribers, 4,000 broadband subscribers and 500 phone subscribers from Lawton Cablevision, the newspaper notes. —Vlada Gelman
Interpublic’s Magna Global released a report revealing the “hyper-acceleration” of emerging media platforms such as search, social media, online video, gaming, interactive TV and digital out-of-home is slowing down, Online Media Daily reports. However, the outlook called for a 31.1%…
FX has passed on Ryan Murphy’s transsexual drama “Pretty/Handsome,” the Hollywood Reporter says. A pilot, starring Joseph Fiennes and executive produced by Murphy, Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner, was ordered by the network, which chose not to pick it up,…
Aya Sumika has been upped to regular for the upcoming fifth season of CBS’ “Numbers,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Sumika has been a recurring player on the drama for the past two seasons as Special Agent Liz Warner, the love…
Don S. Davis, a college professor who made a second career out of playing character parts, died June 29 after suffering a heart attack at his home in Gibsons, Canada, the Los Angeles Times reports. Davis portrayed Gen. George S….