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CBS’ Moonves Says Scatter Rates Are Up

CBS CEO Leslie Moonves said advertisers are paying 25 percent more in the scatter market than they did during the upfront, the Associated Press reports. Moonves was speaking at the UBS media conference Tuesday. –Elizabeth Jensen

MTV’s ‘Jersey Shore’ Down One Advertiser

MTV’s “Jersey Shore” lost an advertiser, TVGuide.com reports. Domino’s decided it didn’t need to have its spots run in the reality program, which has been criticized by an Italian-American group for promoting stereotypes. Domino’s’ vice president of communications, Tim McIntyre,…

GE and Comcast Announce Deal: Brian Roberts Says Company Committed to Broadcast, and That Comcast Shareholders Have Nothing to Fear

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, in an interview with CNBC this morning announcing that Comcast will take a 51% stake  in NBC Universal, said that the company is commited to broadcast TV. "We’d like to invest in the business and succeed…

Google Teams Up With TiVo for Ad Sales Data

Google signed a deal to subscribe to TiVo’s user data, the Los Angeles Times reports. Google will be able to use TiVo’s fast-forwarding data to determine whether the TV ads it has sold to advertisers were actually seen. –Elizabeth Jensen

TiVo Teams with Major Advertiser To Show Commercials When Viewers Fast Forward Through Content

In a pioneering deal, TiVo has partnered with a major advertiser to show messages from the advertiser even when viewers fast forward, rewind, pause, or delete certain content, Advertising Age reports. When viewers perform these functions with NFL games, message…

Spot Runner Intros New Online Buying and Selling Platform (It’s NOT Auction-based)

Spot Runner has announed a new online platform for buyers and sellers of commercial time on TV. It’s called  the Malibu Media Platform and is not auction-based. Spot Runner said in the annoucement that: "The platform is based on the…

TV Sales Strategy/Marketing Guru Hired by Clear Channel

A veteran TV sales stragegy and maketing executive has been hired by Clear Channel Outdoor,  the company has announced. Debbie Reichig has been named Clear Channel Outdoor’s Senior Vice President, Business Development and Marketing. Previously Reichig had a long stint…

Huge Dispute With Millions of Dollars Hanging in the Balance: Media Agencies Furious at Changes TV Stations and Nielsen Want to Make in Local TV Measurement

The American Association of Advertising Agencies (4As) has sent a blistering letter to Nielsen Media Research decrying a planned change in the way Nielsen will measure local TV measurement, Advertising Age reports. The dispute revolves around whether digital video recorder…

Ashleigh Banfield’s Latest Move

Newsperson Ashleigh Banfield will have a new network in the new year, according to TV Newser. The former MSNBC anchor and war correspondent will be joining ABC News for "potential news projects down the road," the article said. Banfield’s last…

Creative Media Partnership Between History Channel and Boxing Title Match to Promote a TV Series

As clients put more and more pressure on their media agencies to figure out how to break through an ever increasingly crowded media environment, it becomes imcumbent on those who work on the planning side to think out-of-the-box. That’s almost a…