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Digital Dealmakers: Tom Burgess

The player: Tom Burgess, founder and CEO of Boston-based Third Screen Media The play: Third Screen Media provides software that delivers ads to mobile phones and manages the entire ad cycle, from buying to reporting on the effectiveness of campaigns….

Networks Return to Reality in New Year

Shaq Among Stars of Midseason Shows

Dramas Still Boast Widest Viewership

From IAG Research A gaze backward reveals this truth about prime-time broadcast program genres: Almost any format can succeed. At different times one genre has been more dominant-comedies about a decade or so ago, dramas circa 1983 and Westerns in…

ESPN’s NASCAR Sales Heating Up

Office Depot on Board, Other Key Sponsorships Near

Interactive Test for ‘Maury’

Strip Plans Viewer Texting, Contests

Special Report Road to NATPE First-Run Programming: The Calm Before the Vegas Storm

A high number of renewals and few available slots have made for a slow pre-NATPE season. But things should pick up on the market floor. A quiet off-season for syndicators could make for an interesting week at the National Association…

New Patterns Call for New Measures

Metrics Should Reflect the Web’s Influence on Shopping

News Briefs: FCC Approves Merger of BellSouth and AT&T

AT&T and BellSouth merged Friday night shortly after the Federal Communications Commission gave its final approval to the $86 billion merger and a day after two Democratic commissioners wielding unusual clout extracted major concessions to win the deal’s OK. Even…

AT&T-Bell South Merger Completed

AT&T and Bell South merged Friday night shortly after the Federal Communications Commission gave its final approval to the $86 billion merger and a day after two Democratic commissioners wielding unusual clout extracted major concessions to win the deal’s OK.The…

FCC’s Martin Posts Media Ownership Studies

Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin moved Friday to deflect congressional charges that the FCC repressed unfavorable media ownership studies by posting online a new FCC study along with studies the commission did back to 1982.The FCC’s media bureau suggested…