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Don Gillis dead at 85
WCVB-TV Boston reports the death of retired sportscaster Don Gillis, who was Sports Director of the station from 1972 to 1983. He also hosted its ...
Full story Solid quarter for Scripps
CEO Ken Lowe was no doubt happy to use the term “solid quarter” with so many media companies struggling. Scripps saw Q1 revenues rise 6.8%, ...Dissidents win Media General election
AFTRA postpones talks with AMPTP negotiations
AFTRA announced yesterday it will oblige an Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers (AMPTP) request to delay the start of negotiations by a week ...Mega TV adds new program to Sundays
Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) announced today its MEGA TV Channel 22 Miami/DirecTV Channel 169 Puerto Rico and DirecTV Channel 405 in the rest of the ...Woodruff gets green assignment
ABC News Anchor Bob Woodruff will anchor a weekly series for the new Planet Green cable channel, being launched June 4th by Discovery Communications. The ...NBC sticking with hockey
NBC Sports has exercised its option to keep airing the National Hockey League through the upcoming 2008-2009 season. In announcing the renewal, NBC noted that ...Oxygen to rebrand
NBC Universal’s Oxygen cable net is getting a new logo geared at “Generation O,” defined as the 18-49 demo with a hyper focus on women ...Meredith Q3 net earnings per share up 5%
Meredith Corporation reported fiscal Q3 net earnings per share of 0.97, compared to 0.92 per share in the prior-year quarter. Earnings per share from continuing ...NC Dem debate pulled from schedule
Technically, although the date 4/27/08 had been circled in pencil, there never was a debate in the works, since only Hillary Clinton (D-NY) ever agreed ...
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mark walker
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07 May, 2008 08:25:00
Paul- you are awesome! I am so glad to see you again!
Ray Somich
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05 May, 2008 07:11:27
As always, John Gorman tells it like it is, whether we want to hear it or not. How sadly ironic that radio's success has been ...
Jack Messmer
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04 May, 2008 10:25:01
Thanks for your comment.
Does anyone else want to weigh in supporting this move? Do the sweeps really matter that much these days?
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Tim Keating
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02 May, 2008 07:44:28
Am I the only one bothered by Nielsen's move from February 2009 Sweep to March 2009?
The announcement from Nielsen came as a surprise. ...
Charlie Ferguson
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02 May, 2008 05:40:09
As a 2-book Condensed Market that doesn't even get trends from Arbitron, one can foresee some real struggles with some particularly aggressive agencies. Since ...