The Federal Trade Commission confirmed Friday that it is investigating Google, but the agency would not give the reason, Multichannel News reports. The announcement came after Google itself reported on its policy blog that the FTC had launched a review…
An infomercial pitchman who has been accused of being a con man was arrested Thursday night in Tempe, Ariz., after failing to appear in court for an arraignment, reports the AP. Donald Lapre, who has recently been hawking "The Greatest…
Noting that the "economic recovery continues to be unevenly felt across our markets," a group that owns 18 network-affiliated stations says it is placing its employees on furlough, reports Poynter.org’s Jim Romenesko. Media General is implementing 15 days of furlough…
Fox is putting a big promotional push behind "Terra Nova," the time-traveling drama about a family that is transported to prehistoric Earth, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. Steven Spielberg and former News Corp. President Peter Chernin are…
Bloomberg TV’s first advertising campaign aims to lure away viewers from cable business news rival CNBC, reports TVNewser.com. The campaign will focus on the New York City area, where most of Wall Street’s employees live, and will include TV spots…
NBCUniversal has tapped a senior account executive at Oxygen to take over the newly created position of director of ad sales for women for NBCU, Multichannel News reports. The job goes to Nancy Cohen, who will report to Susan Malfa,…
MTV Networks has announced a key promotion in its ad sales research department, Multichannel News reported. The group upped Beth Coleman to senior VP of ad sales research. Coleman was formerly vice president of audience research for the group. She…
The new No. 1 in online display ads this year, according to researcher eMarketer, is expected to write $2.19 billion in business, compared to $1.62 billion for Yahoo and $1.15 billion for Google, reports Advertising Age. The new No. 1…
Oprah got a lot of attention this week saying she’d like to interview O.J. Simpson, but only if he agreed to confess to her that he killed his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman. For TVWeek Open Mike blogger…
OWN, Oprah Winfrey’s fledgling cable network, has fallen short of the audience levels it had promised to advertisers by nearly one-third, reports the New York Post. The network has averaged a 0.1 rating on a total-day basis, which is below…