The deadline for paying the new music royalty fees has been postponed by two months, to July 15, giving internet broadcasters a bit of breathing space and a 30-day chance to file a notice to appeal the Copyright Royalty Board’s decision to increase royalties in federal court.
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Don Imus has hired a top First Amendment attorney and plans to fight CBS, which fired him after he made racially charged remarks on the air.
Westinghouse Digital Electronics and AdtekMedia Inc. have partnered to speed the national expansion of “PumpTop TV,” AdtekMedia’s digital media network that consists of television screens installed atop gas station pumps.
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A recent Hewlett-Packard direct mail campaign drew a 6 to 9 percent response rate and a 66 percent conversion rate.
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When letters within a city are mailed to other locations within the same city, an average of 95 percent of them reach their intended recipients within a day - but not in Chicago.
The new, higher offer from equity firms Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital for Clear Channel Communications is still too low, and shareholders should reject it, says proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services.
Yahoo is hoping that turning to behavioral targeting will help sales and revenue.
AARP, the world’s largest circulation magazine, is gearing up for its sixth annual Road Show, targeting the 50+ demographic at festivals, fairs and other lifestyle events in key markets around the country.
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NBC Universal has announced a licensing agreement to create a Universal-branded theme park in Dubai - Universal City Dubailand - complete with rides, themed attractions, 4,000 hotel rooms, 100 restaurants, retail outlets, office space and residential units.
Mark Whitaker, former editor of Newsweek, has been named senior vice president for news at NBC, making him the No. 2 executive in the news division.
The New Yorker, which usually dominates the National Magazine Awards and which was nominated for nine, went home on Tuesday night empty handed, while New York magazine won several.
Strangely enough, a show that was on hiatus for two months and is being cancelled after this season is in the No. 1 slot for sitcoms.
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The Gospel Music Channel today announced an agreement with Black Family Channel and a number of cable operators, in which Black Family Channel has ceased broadcasting as a linear cable television network and Gospel Music Channel will now run in its place in the majority of markets.
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Nielsen has announced that it may decide to weight results for households equipped with digital video recorders and digital cable TV services in order to make it more representative of the national population, writes MediaPost.
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A representative of the Bancrofts - the family that controls 62 percent of Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones & Co. - has apparently told Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, that his $5 billion offer to buy Dow Jones would be voted down by family members, writes Adweek.
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