Two CBS Radio hosts have been suspended from an FM station in New York City after airing a prank phone call to a Chinese restaurant that was reportedly filled with ethnic and racial slurs.
Net sales for Metro International increased 10 percent in the first quarter compared to the same quarter last year.
Blender magazine is giving its name to Live Nation’s Gramercy Theatre in New York, which will now be called the Blender Theatre at Gramercy. The new Blender Theatre will launch with a kickoff party on Thursday
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Independent organization No More Landing Pages is slated to protest April 25th at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco, the ad:tech blog reports (via MarketingVox).
Media companies such as NBC might be failing with a number of their digital offerings but at least they’re trying, reports MediaWeek (via MarketingVox).
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Following Don Imus’s insensitive comments on his Imus In the Morning Radio show, which resulted in his firing, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network has issued a number of recommendations to the recording and broadcast industries.
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Database marketing agency Merkle has acquired direct marketing agency CFM Direct, writes BtoB. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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The town of Erie, Pa., will see two tri-message billboards be replaced with two digital billboards from Watchfire Digital Outdoor.
Kimberly-Clark posted its 10th consecutive quarter of double-digit gains in the first quarter, with profits up 64 percent and revenue up 8 percent, writes MediaPost.
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Smerconish MSNBC and CBS Radio are once again partnering to put a morning talk radio host on MSNBC. The move follows the firing of morning talk host Don Imus by both companies.
TiVo offers a service called TiVo Stop Watch, which gives media companies a second-by-second picture of the ads they buy.
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To the certainly strung-out staff at the Los Angeles Times, the most recent mandate from above likely caused further stress, but perhaps a sense of resignation more than surprise.
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