Fox’s Lyons Fired for Racially ‘Insensitve’ Comments
Fox baseball broadcaster Steve Lyons has been fired for making a racially insensitive remark about Lou Piniella’s Hispanic heritage on the air.
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Fox baseball broadcaster Steve Lyons has been fired for making a racially insensitive remark about Lou Piniella’s Hispanic heritage on the air.
Home Depot will be serving up Ford ads on its e-commerce site starting this quarter as part of an online push by Ford.
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Starting next week, fans of Sirius Satellite Radio can tune into their favorite shows - including Howard Stern’s - on the internet, even if they aren’t subscribers, announced the company today.
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When WIYY-FM 97.9 in Baltimore switched to broadcasting with HD Radio technology, it became the thousandth radio station in the country to do so.
In a gaffe of major proportions, the state of Utah has divulged email addresses of the children on its so-called child-protection do-not-email list. Proponents of the registry have claimed that it is foolproof.
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Sears has launched a new catalog and companion website based on home decor, called Simply Indoors.
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Women who don’t fully understand “the whole football thing” can still play in their own fantasy league, thanks to Elisabeth Hasselbeck of The View and P&G’s over-the-counter heartburn medication, Prilosec.
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Shelter and craft magazines are trending downwards in subscriptions, single copy sales, and ad revenue, due to competition from the internet and a market that may be over-saturated.
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NBC is artificially lowering its national ratings profile by airing only local commercials in the first half-hour of its hour-long Sunday Football Night in America National Football League pregame show, according to rivals. By airing only local ads, Nielsen Media Research does not include that time slot in its national ratings - a slot which is one of the network’s lowest half-hours of the week.
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Advertisers are increasingly reaching out to the desirable college market, and college stadiums have developed as a hot medium for marketers.
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ESPN’s $8.8 billion gamble to bring Monday Night Football to cable appears to be paying off.
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Franken As rumored, Air America has filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Us Weekly’s Oct. 4 edition may be the title’s worst-selling issue of the year so far, with sales estimates a full 20 percent below average.
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