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Chart: Ad Spending for Top 10 Parent Companies
Ad spending in the first half of 2007 declined 7.3 percent to $8.3 billion and seven of the top 10 advertisers reined in their ad budgets. General Motors, for example, cut spending by a whopping 27.7 percent. On the other…
HealthiNation Inks Deal with Prevention
Digital health education network HealthiNation inked a deal with Prevention magazine to feature health videos on Prevention.com. The deal follows Prevention.com’s recent relaunch of its site to include more online video. The site reaches about 1.6 million unique visitors each…
Davis Named Exec VP at ABC News as Part of Key Management Shuffle
Dave Davis, the well-regarded president and general manager of ABC-owned flagship station WABC-TV in New York City, has been named executive VP of ABC News. The appointment is part of a broad shift of key management assignments announced Tuesday by…
McCormick Joins Reelz Management Board
Doug McCormick has joined ReelzChannel as vice chairman of the network’s executive management board. Mr. McCormick is non-executive chairman of LIN TV and a venture partner with Rho Ventures. He previously was CEO of iVillage, which was sold to NBC…
Markey Sets Hearings to Examine Digital Transition Process
Expressing continuing doubts about whether the digital transition is going smoothly enough, the chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s telecom panel is setting two October hearings to explore whether more needs to be done. U.S. Rep. Edward Markey,…
PBS, CBS News Lead News Emmys
“60 Minutes” kicked off its 40th season with the biggest sweep of any single program at the 28th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony Monday night. The granddaddy of all TV newsmagazines earned four of the five Emmys taken…
FCC Proposes Fine for Comcast
The Federal Communications Commission is proposing to fine Comcast $4,000 for running a video news release without disclosing the provider, in what may be a signal that the agency is close to acting on more than 100 similar complaints about…
EchoStar Acquires Sling Media, Considers Splitting Company in Two
EchoStar Communications said Tuesday it is considering separating the company into two publicly traded corporations, one of which would continue to operate its Dish Network satellite TV service. The other company would control EchoStar’s technology and infrastructure assets. That would…
NBC Orders ‘Fear’ Anthology Series
NBC has ordered 13 episodes of a new anthology series from the producers of Showtime’s “Masters of Horror.” The one-hour series “Fear Itself” will premiere next summer featuring stories penned by some the genre’s top writers and helmed by name-brand…