AdWeek |
August 20th, 2008 |
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NEW YORK When NBC makes a run for the U.S. rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics, it will have plenty of company. ESPN president George Bodenheimer said his network would be in the running to telecast the Games. And Fox, which participated in the last round of bidding, confirmed [...]
Louise Radnofsky reports on the presidential race. Political science is still wrangling over how much importance to attach to the "convention bounce" - the boost in the polls enjoyed by Republican and Democratic presidential candidates in the days after accepting the nomination at their party's national convention. But chatter about [...]
The sports network said it would carry more live games, regardless of the time zone, than NBC has traditionally done.[...]
After only five months since going live, Hulu has reached 105 million streams in July, according to numbers released by Nielsen's VideoCensus. The NBC Universal/News Corp (NYSE: NWS). joint venture's streaming numbers were fairly strong early on. In April, Nielsen reported that it had 63 million. Still, Nielsen is a [...]
GigaOM |
August 19th, 2008 |
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Who Wins: AT&T; U-Verse or Verizon FiOS AT&T; U-Verse Verizon FiOS Neither. Cable will still beat them Verizon recently launched its FiOS TV and fiber-based broadband service in New York City, The New York Times is taking stock of the service, which seems to be doing well. Verizon's $23 billion [...]
The Times |
August 19th, 2008 |
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All political lives end in failure, said Enoch Powell. And it is not much better for chief executives. Many suffer a sudden and painful conclusion to their tenure, particularly when times are tough. Few get to write the last chapter of their careers.[...]
ABC may have a tough time keeping its No. 1 slot in the upcoming fall season. Fox, which has handily beat the competition in recent years in the later part of the season thanks in large part to hits[...]
Shares of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). have had a rough year, just like most of their peers, but key executives did well. According to its definitive proxy statement filed this evening, bonuses for CEO and Chairman Rupert Murdoch and COO Peter Chernin were both up this year compared to last. [...]
Wired |
August 19th, 2008 |
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Many believe that humanity's destiny lies with the stars. Sadly for us, rocket propulsion experts now say we may never even get out of the Solar System. At a recent conference, rocket scientists from NASA, the U.S. Air Force and academia doused humanity's interstellar dreams in cold reality. The scientists, [...]
When BoomTown was younger and much more impressionable in the 1990s, the television dramedy "Northern Exposure" had an unusually profound impact. Set in the fictional town of Cicely, Alaska, the Emmy Award-winning show was a classic fish-out-of-water story about Joel Fleischman, a New York doctor (played by Rob Morrow) transplanted [...]
In past years, presidential candidates announced their running mates months in advance. This year, both John McCain and Barack Obama are making their picks just days before the conventions. Video courtesy of Fox News. (Aug. 19)[...]
MediaPost |
August 19th, 2008 |
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Your award shows with big ratings are finally here -- whether it's MTV's Video Music Awards next month or ABC's Academy Awards next spring. Big-time nominations will be the highlight of any marketing campaign that aligns themselves with these shows - especially now that Britney Spears last big-time performance, which [...]
MediaPost |
August 19th, 2008 |
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The divergent power of selection was once the domain of television and newspapers that fed the masses the news and interpretation they deemed fit. The seemingly pervasive Internet has joined their ranks in unexpected ways, as evidenced by the Olympics--and that is the fault of consumers as much as it [...]
Elizabeth Holmes reports from Orlando, Fla., on the presidential race. Olive Garden, the Italian restaurant chain with the slogan "When you're here, you're family," has a growing number of famous relatives. The "family" includes Kendra Wilkinson, a Playboy model and one of Hugh Hefner's three girlfriends, who has professed her [...]
Elizabeth Holmes reports from Orlando, Fla., on the presidential race. John McCain received a heros welcome Monday when he appeared before a convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. A sea of roughly 3,000 attendees, many wearing the traditional hats signaling the war in which they served, [...]
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