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TiVo released details yesterday for a new programming service, TiVo Kidzone - which incorporates recommendations from advocacy groups Parents Television Council and Common Sense Media - designed to deliver quality programming to children, writes Broadcasting & Cable.
The service gives parents the ability to block out offensive programming, customize the “KidZone” electronic guide to their child’s age, and protect access settings with a parental password.
“This is not about blocking shows, this is about finding the best shows,” said TiVo CEO Tom Rogers. He also said one selling point of KidZone would be functionality, as TiVo maintains efforts to license its software for compatibility with cable set-tops.
KidZone software will be included free on the TiVo “Series2″ units - to be released in June to the 1.4 million users of TiVo’s boxes - but will not be compatible with the current “Series 1″ boxes, writes The New York Times.
Though off-air online and experiential advertising grew modestly as a part of the overall radio revenue pie, and election-related political ads increased in Q3, total radio ad revenues were down 9% to $4.97 billion for Q3 and down 10% for…
Glamour magazine is running its photo of Britney Spears not only on the cover of the U.S. edition, but on the covers in seven other countries, as well.
Britney will grace Russia, Sweden and Greece’s editions of Glamour, among others.…
Titan Worldwide has signed a five-year deal with the Delaware River Port Authority to manage out-of-home advertising for the Port Authority Transit corp.
The contract covers advertising on PATCO’s rail service and stations between Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia, writes Mediaweek.…
Publicis has acquired full-service agency W&K Communications, continuing its Asia expansion that began several years ago.
W&K will be pulled under the umbrella of Publicis’s Burnett agency network, and will be renamed Leo Burnett Beijing Advertising, writes Adweek.
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With only four weeks separating Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, Cyber Monday One (December 1) and Cyber Monday Two (December 
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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…
