New York Times readers in Britain may have been disappointed if they attempted to read the lead story on the NYTimes.com website due to self-censorship exploiting the site’s regional ad targeting technology.
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Sirius Satellite Radio plans to launch an online radio subscription service, dubbed Sirius Internet Radio Plus, for a subscription price of $12.95 per month for the base package.
General Motors, one of the first sponsors for the hit reality show Survivor, has pulled its sponsorship for the upcoming season, claiming that its decision has nothing to do with the show’s controversial new format, which will pit four teams of different races against each other.
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With both the US housing market and their rank in real estate searches slumping, Yahoo has revamped its real estate site and ad unit to include partnerships with Prudential and Zillow in hopes of gaining local market share.
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AOL Radio will begin carrying Bob Dylan’s weekly XM show Theme Time Radio Hour today. In addition, Dylan fans can catch 18 “Theme Time” shows back-to-back as part of XM’s weekend-long marathon, which will be simulcast on AOL Radio beginning Friday, September 1. This is the first time the show has been available to people who don’t subscribe to XM.
Nordstrom Direct has announced plans to nearly double the size of its customer service and fulfillment centers in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Real estate ads in newspapers, which last August were reported to be growing dramatically, may be on the verge of a decline.
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JC Penney plans to test the use of live content in two television ads during the Video Music Awards.
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Nielsen Media Research plans to pay members of Spanish-speaking households more money than other households who agree to be a part of its TV ratings sample, with the goal of boosting the number of Spanish-speaking households and making its sample more representative of the U.S. population, writes MediaPost.
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Fox has sold most of its inventory for its Sunday afternoon NFL telecasts, putting it ahead of where it stood last year at this point.
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CNN had a banner month in August, thanks to Middle East unrest and other news of interest to viewers.
The poker playing world has signed a new sponsor, Bic Lighter, which will become “the official lighter of the World Series of Poker.”
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Inc. magazine’s 25th Anniversary Inc. 500 issue will have a total of 99 advertising pages - an increase of eight percent over last year. The Inc. 500 will be published in September and hits newsstands today.
