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Bloomberg Preps Major Marketing Push

Seeking an agency or agencies to help it with “corporate identity and design, advertising, media, digital, events and demand generation.”

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Radio's 3Q Dials Up Slightly

Radio revenue improved slightly in third quarter but was still bouncing along the bottom, according to figures released Friday (Nov. 20) by the Radio Advertising Bureau.

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'Oprah Winfrey Show' Coming to an End

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'Oprah Winfrey Show' Coming to an End

To shift focus to OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, which she owns with Discovery Communications. The cable network expects to bow at the end of next year

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In Depth: Mr. TV Discusses Oprah on PI Podcast

The big news late yesterday was Oprah Winfrey’s decision to conclude her syndicated talk show in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air to concentrate on her upcoming cable network OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, a joint venture with Discovery Communications.

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ESPN Breaks Out the Broom in Ratings Sweep

Dominates all four major categories in the prime-time cable ratings race, marking the sports network’s first sweep since mid-October

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TV Guide Net Reups With Comcast

TV Guide Network has reached a multi-year extension of a carriage agreement with Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable operator, the companies said Friday.

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MySpace to Feature 'New Moon' Takeover Ads

The News Corp.-owned social networking site is set to roll out a new, highly intrusive homepage takeover ad for The Twilight Saga: New Moon

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Updated: ABC Launching Grey's Anatomy Web Companion

ABC is launching Seattle Grace: On Call, an original Web companion series to the network’s long-running hit Grey’s Anatomy.

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McClatchy Launches Digital Kindle Editions

The McClatchy Co. announced today—on Facebook—that five of its papers are now available on the Kindle: The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram in Texas, the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News and the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.

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Bloomberg Preps Major Marketing Push

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Digital Billboards Safe, Says Another Study

In case critics of digital billboards didn’t notice the first two studies that show digital billboards are “safety neutral,” a third study was released Thursday (Nov. 19). Conducted by Philadelphia-based Tantala Associates in Cleveland, Ohio, the study is the largest study of digital-billboard safety yet conducted.

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Forecast Downgraded for DOOH

Even digital out-of-home, one of the fastest-growing media, was not immune to the effects of the economy in 2009.

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Radio's 3Q Dials Up Slightly

Radio revenue improved slightly in third quarter but was still bouncing along the bottom, according to figures released Friday (Nov. 20) by the Radio Advertising Bureau.

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Congress Joins Spectrum Grab Debate

FCC’s proposal to reallocate some of the spectrum now held by TV broadcasters to mobile communications companies has caught the attention of lawmakers

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Bloomberg Preps Major Marketing Push

Seeking an agency or agencies to help it with “corporate identity and design, advertising, media, digital, events and demand generation.”

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CBS Wins Thursday Overnights; ABC Poised for Leadership Among Adults 18-49

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It was business as usual on Thursday, with CBS first in the overnights, and ABC expected to win the evening overall among adults 18-49 thanks to the ongoing strength of Grey’s Anatomy. Third in the metered markets was vastly improved Fox (which was up 58 percent year-to-year), followed by NBC and The CW. 

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Mr. TV: Stuffing TV Turkeys

It’s almost Thanksgiving, and incredibly this is my sixth annual column dedicated to the best and worst on the small screen. And as always, there are plenty of turkeys stuffing up the airwaves just waiting to be plucked by Mr. TV.

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