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Sirius Satellite Radio may be the only 100 percent commercial-free satellite music service left, as an arbitration panel told XM Satellite Radio it must use advertising on certain music channels now free of commercials, writes Mediaweek. The panel’s ruling settles a legal dispute with Clear Channel - which gained control of four XM music channels in a 1998 investment - by declaring that “Clear Channel is entitled to include commercials on the music programming it provides XM.”
In an attempt to offset the advertising on the four Clear Channel-controlled channels, XM will launch four new commercial-free channels over the next few months. An XM spokesperson said the satellite service is committed to keeping all music channels XM creates free of commercials.
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.
Other recent Publicis…
With only four weeks separating Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, Cyber Monday One (December 1) and Cyber Monday Two (December 
may command a greater share of online sales than they have in years past - thus increasing the importance…
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…
