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The Sporting News has agreed to a $7.2 million settlement with the U.S. government to resolve claims that it illegally promoted gambling via radio, print, and the internet, the San Diego Union Tribune reports. According to Catherine Hanaway, U.S. attorney for eastern Missouri, the Sporting News ran the ads for six months after the Justice Department sent a letter in June 2003 to the Magazine Publishers of America saying that ads for internet gambling were illegal.
The Sporting News claimed it stopped running the ads as soon as it was notified of the government’s position, but paid a $4.2 million fine on Thursday. The rest of the settlement will come in the form of public service aimed at dissuading people from online gambling.
But according to Calvin Ayre, CEO of online gambling site Bodog.com, interactive poker legality is a grey area. The U.S. Justice Department has danced around the issue while exerting pressure on media outlets to not run ads.
In a MarketingSherpa article, Ayre says his legal experts tell him media outlets running ads for international gambling companies are protected under the Constitution, “until such time as a U.S. judge of competent authority rules otherwise.”
Katz Media Group has added another new client, Lincoln Financial Media, and will sell ad time on the company’s 15 stations beginning immediately.
Katz also added CBS Radio and Entercom last week, picking them off from Interep’s list.
Katz has also…
Last week, Aegis Group CEO Robert Lerwill resigned unexpectedly, sparking speculation that a takeover may be on the horizon.
Lerwill stepped down officially today (Monday), with Aegis chairman John Napier taking over his duties on an interim basis, writes MediaPost. People…
Out-of-home companies are bracing for the recession like everyone else, but they may not feel the sting as badly as other media.
Though the third quarter brought negative growth to the nation’s three largest OOH companies - Clear Channel Outdoor,…
The 82nd annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade pulled an average 12.6 rating/26 share on Thanksgiving morning, Nov. 27, according to Nielsen.
That was 8% higher than its telecast last year, Mediaweek writes. NBC estimated that a total 44.7 million viewers…
Top American non-luxury auto brands received higher ratings and less negative comments from online consumers than competing Japanese brands, according to an analysis of consumer opinions collected from automotive review websites by Biz360, MarketingCharts reports.
The research, which aggregated a year’s…
Email, news gathering and paying bills continue to be the most widely used online activities among U.S. adults, but downloading TV programs, watching videos and making web phone calls posted the biggest overall growth, according to data from Mediamark Research…
