Fox’s medical drama House, with its scruffily irascible hero played by Hugh Laurie, continues its strong showing, leaving its competition in the dust last night, according to Nielsen overnights.
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Whatever else you might say about it, you can’t claim that Radar magazine isn’t persistent.
Banking giant HSBC and cataloger Cornerstone Brands Inc. have penned an agreement to launch and manage a private label credit program.
Mobile YouTube, as rumored earlier this month, is finally here, at least if you are a subscriber to Verizon Wireless V-Cast, a $15 a month video and music service.
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Rumors to the effect that Clear Channel was in talks with J.C. Decaux to sell Clear Channel’s outdoor unit to the French firm are incorrect, according to Clear Channel.
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Google has reportedly launched a “secret” CPM online ad network, dubbed the Google Display Advertising Network, in tests since Oct. 1.
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Sirius Satellite Radio has announced that it will devote up to 10 additional Team Talk channels in order to offer extended coverage of the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series.
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Despite breaking records on network television, the NFL’s debut on the league’s flagship channel was less than stellar.
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The outgoing chairman of the Reader’s Digest Association, on the day before Ripplewood Holdings made its offer to take the company private, replaced his old employment contract with a new one that gives him a golden parachute worth more than $4.5 million.
Freshink, a new tabloid in Victorville, Calif., and being published by Freedom Communications, plans to target teens.
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Starting salaries for media buyers and planners have bounced back, reaching levels equal or above where they were at the top of the dot-com boom.
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Sirius Satellite Radio will launch a new, live daily call-in talk show with psychic medium, bestselling author, and lecturer Mary Occhino. The show will air live Monday - Friday from 8:00 - 11:00 am ET on Sirius Stars channel 102.
HoneyBaked Foods likely feels less than jolly heading into this holiday season after being forced to issue a massive recall, to the tune of some 24 tons of hams and turkeys.
The FTC has charged a Florida business and its owner, who marketed “height-enhancing” pills for children and young adults, with making false and unsubstantiated claims. The defendants are ordered to pay $375,000 in consumer redress.
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Though Tribune Co. has received a number of proposals to purchase all or parts of its assets and had expected to complete its review strategy by the end of the year, the company has decided to extend the review into 2007.
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