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TV Guide, NBC Ink Cross-Platform Olympic Deal

TV Guide and NBC Olympics have signed an integrated programming and marketing agreement across multiple platforms including TV Guide Channel, TV Guide Interactive, and TV Guide Magazine, to support NBC’s coverage of this month’s Olympic Winter Games.

TV Guide Channel’s Watch This!ÉThe Olympics will incorporate tune-in information for all of NBC’s Olympic coverage into its daily segments.

TV Guide Channel will feature a dedicated Olympic Winter Games area in its scrolling program listings. Also, throughout the Olympics, TV Guide Channel’s on-screen program listings will have a U.S.A. Medal Count.

TV Guide Interactive will feature a NBC Olympics icon, which viewers may click on for quick for program listings.

For three weeks beginning with the February 6th issue, TV Guide magazine will feature coverage of the Olympics including an NBC Olympics TV listings guide.

NBC will promote TV Guide Channel throughout its coverage of the Olympic Winter Games.

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Spanish Radio Still Peeved about PPM

The Spanish Radio Association says Arbitron still has not addressed its concerns and research questions regarding the PPM and how “Hispanics are recruited and represented, and how the PPM panel is maintained.”

The SRA has been working with Arbitron in…

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‘Chicago Tribune’ Readies Relaunch for Sept. 29

The Chicago Tribune’s new design will launch on Sept. 29, Tribune Co. chief operating officer Randy Michaels says. No details on the redesign have been released; the paper has already been decreasing its editorial pages to create a more even split…

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Teens Not a Great Demo for Mobile Advertising

Teens are not the best demo to target with cell phone advertising, according to a new study from comScore. Though they are cell phone-savvy, most of them - 70 percent - have their phones paid for by parents, which means…

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CNN Wins Second Night of Cable DNC Coverage

CNN won its second night of coverage of the Democratic National Convention Tuesday. The network averaged 3.41 million viewers in the 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. time slot, despite the fact that Fox drew nearly even for the night.

Fox…

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Widely Held Attitudes about Various Generations Studied

Generation Y is the most self-indulgent, Generation X is the most innovative, and Boomers are the most productive, while the “Silent Generation” and the “Greatest Generation” are the most admired, according to a recent survey by Harris Interactive, writes MarketingCharts.

Conducted for…

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Retailers Busting out Extreme Back-to-School Discounts

To encourage shoppers to buy more back-to-school items, retailers often implement “loss leader†strategies: that is, selling items at a loss or even giving them away in hopes that the reductions will attract shoppers who will then buy other, more…

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