The energy drink Red Bull has entered a partnership with NBC Sports in which the beverage company will provide 35 hours of action-sports programming for NBC and NBC Sports Network, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. The content will start…
Lowe’s is sticking to its decision to pull ads from TLC’s reality show "All-American Muslim" after clergy in the company’s home base of Charlotte delivered a petition with 200,000 signatures, reports Deadline.com. Executives from Lowe’s met with the clergy and…
NBC Owned Television Stations and VeriFone Systems Inc. have signed a long-term agreement to put news, information and entertainment programming in more than 12,000 taxi cabs and in thousands of gas stations and other out-of-home platforms, the companies announced today….
Total advertising expenditures for the first nine months of 2011 were up from a year earlier, according to figures released today by Kantar Media. Spending was up 1.5%, finishing finished the period at $104.7 billion, Kantar reported. Growth in spending…
The woman behind a commercial that’s familiar to anyone who watched television in the 1970s has died. In the commercial, a little boy named Mikey, known to be a picky eater, takes a bite of a new cereal called Life….
Casey Anthony is shopping her first interview as a television special, but so far several cable networks have passed on the offer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Anthony is working with Scott Sternberg Productions and asking between $500,000 and $750,000…
In the midst of a growing controversy over the TLC reality show “All-American Muslim,” another advertiser is reportedly following the lead of Lowe’s Home Improvement and pulling its ads from the show, the New York Daily News reports. The advertiser…
Television ads that jar viewers with a sudden jump in volume have been banned by the Federal Communications Commission, reports the New York Post. Viewers will have to wait a while to hear a difference, however. The rules won’t go…
A battle is raging over the TLC reality show “All-American Muslims” after Lowe’s Home Improvement pulled its ads from the show in response to pressure from a conservative Christian group, as previously reported. ABC News reports that the Christian group,…
A top ABC Sales executive is calling it quits after 40 years with the network. Michael Rubin, senior vice president/general manager of the Central Sales Division for ABC Sales is stepping down as of January, 2012, the network has announced….