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Rosie O’Donnell’s days on The View are numbered. The co-host will leave the show in mid-June, due to the inability of O’Donnell and ABC to reach a contract agreement, according to ABC.com (via Fishbowl NY).
“They wanted me three years, I wanted one year, and it just didn’t work,” O’Donnell said on today’s show. Rose will still appear on the show, but she will not be an every day host. President of daytime programming at Disney-ABC Television Group Brian Frons said that, “Going in we knew we would have an amazing year with her, and that anything beyond that would be gravy.”
Ratings for The View during February sweeps were up 15 percent in what the article calls “key women demographics” over the same time in 2006.
Vending machines filled with a “synthetic blood nourishment beverage” called Tru Blood have sold out - but vampire fans can get more of the bloody refreshment at events across the country promoting a new HBO drama.
The series True Blood,…
Total magazine rate-card-reported advertising revenue for the first half of 2008 closed at $11,554,569,406, down 3.1 percent compared with the first half of 2007, according to Publishers Information Bureau (PIB), Magazine Publishers of America reported (via MarketingCharts).
Ad pages during the first…
Internet coupons have become of increasing interest to consumers, with 11 percent of households now obtaining coupons via the internet - an increase of 83 percent since 2005 - according to (pdf) a recent analysis by Scarborough Research, reports MarketingCharts.
However, the…
AMC’s Mad Men snared 16 Emmy nominations, including best drama - the first time a basic cable series was nominated in the best-series category.
The show received the most nominations of all dramatic TV series. FX’s Damages also received a…
Vogue will follow the lives of three young women as they enter the world of top modeling, pulling video together for a web-based reality series called Model.Live. Clothing retailer Express LLC paid in the low seven figures to be the…
Antiperspirant manufacturer Mitchum is launching a promotion, kicked off in the Pacific Northwest this month, that offers consumers $1 coupons attached to hangers that come from dry cleaners.
This is the third time Mitchum has partnered with EcoHangers - a company…
