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Mag Rack, Rainbow Media’s niche video-on-demand service for hobbyists, has formed a content-development and marketing and promotion alliance with American Express Publishing, which publishes Food & Wine and T&L Golf magazines, among other luxury-lifestyle national titles.AMEX and Mag Rack will…
Diller praised by Vivendi chief, who aims to slow acquisitionsVivendi Universal Chairman Jean-Marie Messier tried to calm investor fears by promising no more big acquisitions or mergers on the horizon just now. His remarks came during a year-end earnings call…
The latest example of an integrated marketing deal-but one primarily on the local TV level-is an arrangement between Mazda and five different divisions of The Walt Disney Co.Disney was also able to bring eight TV station affiliates into the deal,…
Sinclair was criticized when it canned news at some of its stations last year due to the recession-inspired ad sales slump. But it’s gotten virtually no ink on its effort to reach out to viewers locally: It is now the…
HBO to re-examine ’72 basketball controversyBefore there were Olympics judging controversies in ice skating, there was the 1972 gold medal basketball game, which the United States lost by 1 point to its Cold War rival, the Soviet Union, after officials…
Advertising & AgenciesRich Contino to director of client services, Inter/Media, from manager of client services, Mercury Media. Also Leili Nassiri to associate planning director, from associate account director, Initiative Media.BroadcastingEmile Elgarresta to senior VP of production, Telemundo Communications Group, from…
Mary McCormack will star in the CBS comedy pilot “Julie Lydecker” from Jennifer Crittenden and Phil Rosenthal with Paramount/CBS Productions. Ms. McCormack is repped by the Gersh Agency. … Dana Delaney will star in “Presidio Med,” a new drama for…
I remember meeting Michael Eisner in the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington. It was hard to look him in the eye because his eyes are very high up and very, very tiny; maybe he’s a cartoon. He…
The man has made millions of us laugh as host of a talk show we invite into our homes right before we go to bed, yet he’s been described off-air as “testy, defensive, preoccupied, withdrawn … and uncomfortable with people.”…
When was it, last night or last weekend? You were watching “Meet the Press” or “The O’Reilly Factor” or “Nightline,” and there was that damn blowhard guest again. “Am I the only one who notices that?” you think to yourself.On…