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The availability of HD radio, which both iBiquity and Entercom executives said would increase dramatically in the second half of this year, is still scarce, and will miss the holiday buying season, writes Mediaweek. Only six HD radio models are currently available - five after-market car radios and one high-end home system.
In Detroit, the focus for the rollout, Motor City broadcasters that had expected to receive new tabletop units from Boston Accoustics last month were told they will not have them until January, and delivery of units from other companies have been pushed back as well.
One Detroit programmer told Billboard Radio Monitor that HD is still a year to a year-and-a-half from kicking in. Tom Bender, senior VP/regional GM of Greater Media Detroit, says buyers are still the early adopters.
Arbitron has reached a settlement with the State of New York, in a move that will resolve all claims against Arbitron that were alleged in the lawsuit filed against the company by the NY Attorney General relating to the marketing…
Just weeks after shuttering the print edition of PC Magazine and moving it entirely online, Ziff Davis has announced that it is closing the books on Electronic Gaming Magazine, due to the sale of its collection of video game sites,…
Angered by a London bus advertisement that sent her to a website where she was told that she was going to hell, to spend all eternity in torment, comedy writer Ariane Sherine decided to launch a counter-campaign.
She began raising…
Time Warner said today that the economy has been more challenging in terms of its advertising business than it had expected, particularly at AOL and the Time Inc. publishing units.
The company said it will post a net operating loss…
On its Google Checkout page, Google claims a “Checkout” icon can increase ad click-through by 10%. (At least one client, Fred Lerner of e-commerce network Ritz Interactive, claims the Checkout icon increased clickthroughs by 23%.)
What’s more, Google Checkout users purportedly…
Even through a recession U.S. consumers redeem just 1%-3% of paper coupons, but up to half of the coupons that Kroger sends to its customers are redeemed - because it uses a data-mining firm it part-owns to target specific customers.
Kroger,…
