Some gun ads have been banned by Time Warner Cable, weeks after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., reports Multichannel News. "We no longer accept ads showing semiautomatic weapons and guns pointed at people,” the company…
Here’s something connected with Lance Armstrong that’s actually gone UP in value due to his confessing that he took performance-enhancing drugs when he was a professional cyclist. It’s the price of a 30-second commercial in the upcoming two-part interview with…
The Syndicated Network Television Association is rolling out the results of its annual 2012/2013 member survey in advance of the annual NATPE conference. Here are a few of the findings: Syndication’s national breaks, at 2:27 in length, are 30% shorter…
A top writer for the tech site CNET resigned Monday, soon after a report was published that said the site was barred by its corporate owner, CBS, from giving an award to Dish Network for its ad-hopping technology, reports The…
Lance Armstrong, who has finally admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career, is facing a tough road to rehabilitating his reputation, with his Q score going downhill, the New York Post reports. The Q Score is a measure…
CBS Corp, which owns the respected tech website CNET, stepped in at the last minute to prevent one of the prestigious CNET Best of CES Awards to be presented, reports The New York Post. Just before Dish was set to receive an award…
ABC is getting more money for commercial time on its broadcast of the Oscars, with a 30-second spot going for between $1.65 million and $1.8 million in this year’s show, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. That’s up slightly from…
"It looks like networks may have some new, unexpected inventory to sell: their Twitter feeds. The Associated Press and Samsung appear to have established a template this week, where a network could place ads atop their own pages as well…
CBS, which will broadcast the Super Bowl on Feb. 3, said it sold out of its commercial time for the game, Advertising Age reports. That is, unless an advertiser wants to pay up much more than the average price of…
Dish Network is working on a feature that would allow for last-minute auctions of ad space by allowing advertisers to see what viewers are tuning into in real time, reports Advertising Age, citing a Bloomberg report. The feature, called "What’s…