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Huh? Toyota Dealers Pull Ads Off Some ABC Affiliates; Dealers Are Mad About ‘Excessive Stories’ on Toyota Problems

Talk about your mixed messages. Embattled Toyota, trying to reassure the public that it’s concerned about safety issues and will fix its cars that have been found to have a potentially deadly acceleration problem, has pulled TV ads off TV…

Record Smashed! The Super Bowl was Watched by 106.5 Million, Breaking the All-Time Viewing Record Set by ‘M*A*S*H’ Finale

Twenty-seven years ago, in 1983, Sally Ride become the first U.S. woman in space. Pitchers Nolan Ryan of the Astros and Steve Carlton of the Phillies both broke Walter Johnson’s 56 year record for most strikeouts. "Terms of Endearment" won…

Video: The Best Super Bowl Ad This Year, as Rated by USA Today’s Annual Consumer Poll

The best ad on the Super Bowl this year, as rated by consumers in USA Today’s annual poll, was not a beer commercial, nor an auto spot. It was Mars’ ad for its Snickers brand, starring Betty White. See it…

Cutting O’Brien Out of Poster in Lobby was One Thing–Has NBC Gone Too Far With This Further Excising of Conan?

NBC appears determined to erase any hint of Conan O’Brien’s “Tonight Show” tenure, AllThingsD reports. According to the report, NBC.com in recent days has removed all seven months of O’Brien episodes as host of "The Tonight Show," and Hulu, the video…

Is This the Best Super Bowl Ad We’ll See?

Ad Age’s Ken Wheaton goes so far as to say that this print ad is the best Super Bowl ad ever. Do you agree? (The company that makes this product, McIlhenny Company, is based in Louisiana.)

OMG: Fox Reportedly Wants Howard Stern as ‘Idol’ Judge When Simon Leaves

Producers of the most popular series on TV, Fox’s "American Idol," have been interested in having controversial shock-jock Howard Stern replace the ascerbic Simon Cowell, according to the New York Post’s Page Six. Cowell leaves the show after this season. He is reportedly making $40…

Sparks Fly as Sen. Al Franken Grills Comcast, NBCU Execs

Former NBC star Al Franken, now a Democratic Senator from Minnesota, put Comcast Chairman Brian Roberts and NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker through a grilling during a Senate hearing on Comcast’s proposed takeover of NBCU, B&C reports. With his aggressive…

Sinclair Adding Digital Music Network

Sinclair Television Group is picking up TheCoolTV, a music network, to air on its digital multicast channels in 34 markets reaching 24 million homes, B&C reports. The new network, which airs live concerts and videos, incorporates a local element in…

Report: Tiger Woods Might Return to Golf in a Few Weeks; If So It Could Be Windfall for NBC, Golf Channel

An Australian newspaper, the Herald Sun, is reporting that Tiger Woods’ return to golf may be as soon as later this month to play in the Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson, Ariz. The paper only quotes as its sources of this…

Comcast Turns to Ex-NBCU Executive for Merger Advice

Comcast has met several times with a former top NBC Universal executive for advice on which executives to keep when its takeover of NBCU is completed, the New York Post reports. Randy Falco, who spent 31 years at NBC before…