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Off The Radar
NYT: Mortimer B. Zuckerman has pulled the plug on Radar magazine after just three issues. Radar employees had just celebrated the publication of its third issue - surpassing the two issues it published in its previous incarnation in 2003 - and were scrambling to close the fourth. Mr. Zuckerman, the publishing and real estate mogul who also owns The Daily News and U.S. News &World Report, said in an interview last …
A Dot Com Division Is So 1999
USA TODAY: USA TODAY will merge its newspaper and online newsrooms to create a single news operation, the newspaper and website's publishers announced Monday. "What I'm basically here to tell you today is there no longer is going to be a dot-com newsroom. There no longer is going to be a print newsroom. There is one newsroom," USA TODAY President and Publisher Craig Moon told USA TODAY staffers. "I think it's a …
If You Communicate, You’re In The Media Business.
Author and journalist, Randall Rothenberg, writing in Ad Age: Personal production technologies help realize a vision many of us have been propounding for years: that all companies, no matter their core field, will have to have expertise in two businesses: their own, and the media business. Hear hear. …
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The Bald Midget And The Furniture Store Owner’s Daughter
The spot opens at the counter of a pizza place. Behind the counter is a middle-aged worker. The customer, a bald midget, stands in front of the counter, ready to order. He is in a hurry. CUSTOMER: "Quick! What makes Pizza Pan pizza so unique?" WORKER: (He spends 20 seconds going on about fresh dough, fresh ingredients, fast delivery, etc.) "Did ya get all that?" CUSTOMER: (Holding a cell phone) "Oh, I'm sorry. I was …
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Big Money At Top Of Media Pile
According to Ad Age, Comcast Corp. President CEO Brian L. Roberts’ total compensation for 2004 was $33.5 million, making him the highest paid media executive in the magazine's survey. Roberts and his rival James O. Robbins, president-CEO of Cox Communications, who was paid $29.4 million, beat out such well-known luminaries as Sumner Redstone, chairman-CEO of Viacom, ($28.3 million) and Rupert Murdoch, the …
Dear Diary, Is This Still The Way They Do TV Ratings?
Here's an amusing article out of today's Cleveland Plain Dealer, entitled "Confessions of a Nielsen Family," in which columnist John Horton recounts his family's week of watching TV and writing down what they watched. Seven days of chronicling viewing habits taught me this: The remote control is a dangerous weapon in the wrong hands, and we have 10 of them between me; my wife, Debbie; my daughter, Lindsay, 7; and my …
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When Real Life Imitates Advertising
According to this Ad Age report, the entertainment industry isn’t doing enough to combat indecent programming on TV and government limits may be the answer. “My impression is the cable industry is compliant in promoting sexually explicit content and pornography in the home,” said Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark. “What you are doing may be legal, but it may not be best for the country and it may not be right.” He added: “I …
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