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Pith & Vinegar: Inaudibly Vulgar

Although there is some mention of an unpleasant dining experience that ends in a mad dash for the Kaopectate, on the whole, nothing much happens during the 14 minutes and 37 seconds it takes to spin through the Sugarhill Gang's 12-inch single, "Rapper's Delight."

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Unnecessary Roughness

When congress passed the Cable Act of 1992, it should have had the foresight--maybe even the courage--to include one important, albeit controversial, restriction that could have saved the NFL Network and Comcast from their protracted legal dispute.

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Send In The 'Clouds'

In less than a decade, search engine marketing has grown from a little understood and even derided concept ("who would ever want to pay to be in search results?") into the single biggest sector in online advertising. With all that change and upheaval, it's only natural for advertisers to start asking: What's next for search?

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The Tribes Have Spoken
A Quiet Media War
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From Confusion to Clarity
The Download: Web Video Additive, Incremental
Size Doesn't Matter
Space & Time: Changing Times
Pith & Vinegar: iPhone, uPhone...adPhone?
Goliath Courting David?
Keeping DJ Endorsements Alive
The Blunt Pencil: The So-So Sophists
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The Download: Content Arms Race
Triple Dose Of Trouble
The Crescent City Fights Back
Virtually Engaged
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The Programming Insider: Friday 5/09/08

2008-05-09

Before I get into the overnights rating results, let me focus on CBS' Survivor: Micronesia for a moment. Erik…are you crazy? Nuts? Cuckoo? Meshugenah? Could you believe he fell for that scheme to give the immunity necklace to Natalie? As James appropriately noted, this is now the dumbest move in the history of the Survivor franchise. All I can say at this point is…go Cirie!

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Mr. TV: In Mom's Honor

With Mother's Day this Sunday, I thought I would dedicate this week’s column to the grand matriarchs of the small screen who are the real brains behind any classic TV family.

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Seattle

In a market populated by major corporations including Starbuck's, Microsoft, and Boeing, a number of the local media outlets are operated by smaller, local-based companies including Fisher Communications, Sandusky Radio, and The Seattle Times.

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The Mediaweek Magazine Monitor chart provides continually updated current and year-to-date ad page data by magazine category. See Mediaweek magazine?s accompanying analysis for the stories behind the numbers.

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Rapid Report: April 28, 2008

Drawing from topline circulation estimates filed to the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ Rapid Report service, this monthly feature looks at how titles in a given category are delivering on metrics like rate base performance, single copy sales and verified copies.
 

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