Upcoming off-net strip “King of Queens” is about to get almost $13 million in promotional support from its consumer partners.Kellogg’s and Days Inn are set to join the previously announced Hungry Man Dinners in national promotions to support the Sept….
Summer is usually the time most of us like to kick back and relax, but this summer is already a whirl. We have the controversy over the Federal Communications Commission’s rules on ownership and consolidation and the possibility that Congress…
Title: CEO, OmniBus SystemsBackground: Mr. Oldham spent 10 years with software company Encoda Systems.He also worked with online credit company SafeRent and served as chief operating officer for online marketing company MatchLogic.A Changing Industry: OmniBus provides technology solutions to automate…
Until it can discuss the issue with network affiliates, NBC has delayed plans to run day-and-date promos on the network for “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” a fashion-tips show scheduled to run Tuesday and Saturday nights on NBC-owned Bravo…
Vivendi Universal’s board of directors held its monthly meeting last Tuesday and had some advice for the six parties interested in purchasing the French conglomerate’s U.S. entertainment assets: Forget about bidding on the music group-and step up with more money.An…
Liberty Media Corp. is going for broke in the bidding for Vivendi Universal Entertainment, and in ways that may be surprising to some, it could eventually bring NBC along for the ride.A winning bid for VUE-which could cost upward of…
Optimism is in flower again on Madison Avenue. The latest ad-spend forecast, from TNS Media Intelligence/ CMR, predicts that television advertising will be robust in 2003, paced by Spanish-language television (expected to be up 16.9 percent over 2002), followed by…
I hate “Sex and the City.” The HBO comedy oozes with smarmy double entendres that only seem edgy because they come from the mouths of babes. If the show starred a bunch of guys, it wouldn’t last more than a…
The best show on TV is on HBO-but there’s not a mobster, a cadaver or a Manolo Blahnik in sight. TV critics have anointed second-year drama “The Wire” as the best show on TV, according to the 38th installment of…
Title: Senior VP, associate director, national broadcast, Carat USA Recent interesting deal: “A recent deal that Carat did for Kia was a sponsorship of the “Dawson’s Creek” final episode and movie finale on The WB. This sponsorship included television, print…