[Editor’s Note: Today’s Media Planner focuses on the how to handle things that are new. For example, there’s been talk for quite awhile about automated media trading. Many feel it’s a threat—and wouldn’t work anyway. In today’s piece from our…
This is based on a number of conversations I never had with some of the very top executives on both the buying and selling sides of the table, if you catch my drift. What’s controlling the slow-as-molasses-Upfront Marketplace is pure,…
[Editor’s Note: It’s been a long-slow summer so far waiting out the Upfront, as the interview below with OMD’s Alan Cohen, courtesy Ad Age, attests. But before you get to that, we offer a most important article first. As planners,…
The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards and 2009 Creative Arts Emmy Awards Nominees (Alphabetical, by category) Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) American Dad • Sixteen-Hundred Candles • FOX • 20th Century Fox / Underdog / Fuzzy Door…
In what is believed to be a first for a scripted series, "Michael & Michael Have Issues" will feature live commercials during six of its seven episodes. The shows stars, Miichael Ian Black and Michael Showalter humorously wax poetic about…
Mark Mandala, the popular former president of the ABC Television Network, has died at age 72. For more details, please click here. –Chuck Ross