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David Lee Roth’s ruinous career move as a radio talk show host may be ending after a four-month run, as CBS is allegedly axing him and bringing on raunchy talk jocks Opie and Anthony, the Boston Herald reports. CBS fired the pair four years ago after they broadcast a couple having sex in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. They were also yanked off Boston’s WAAF-FM in 1998 after having erroneously told listeners - on April Fools Day - that the mayor of the city had died in a car crash in Florida.
The pair then tried out XM Satellite Radio and became one of XM’s most popular shows. XM will syndicate the show on those stations.
Roth replaced Howard Stern on the East Coast after Stern left for Sirius. Earlier this month, CBS sent Roth several letters demanding changes to the show. Roth complained that CBS executives didn’t offer him enough support when he began airing, and that he didn’t know what he was doing.
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 
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…
