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ESPN has inked a deal with Gas Station TV to provide content for the service, which provides news and information via screens atop gas station pumps.
Gas Station TV had a soft launch last year, and is ready to expand to New York, Los Angeles and Chicago in June, writes MediaPost. GSTV will have 6,000 screens by year’s end. ABC also provides content to the service.
A similar service, PumpTop TV, is being launched by Westinghouse Digital Electronics and AdtekMedia Inc. PumpTop TV will be in thousands of gas stations in each of the sixty largest U.S. markets, according to the companies.
PumpTop TV is currently looking into national and regional content providers for its network. The first market will be Los Angeles, followed by San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto, San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston.
All sectors of the media business will suffer from the weakened economy in 2008 and 2009, with a slump in local advertising particularly hurting newspapers and local TV, according to a new projection from Goldman Sachs.
Broadcast nets will experience…
The New York Times is shuttering its International Herald Tribune site; NYTimes.com will soon host the international news normally reserved for its sister website.
The move is not about cost savings, but rather about growth, NYTimes.com general manager Vivian Schiller…
Unilever’s Vaseline set forth on an unusual research project in a small town in Alaska. Setting up a storefront, the company began giving away free bottles of lotion and asking recipients to name the person who had recommended they come…
Meet the Press, the show hosted by Tim Russert for 17 years before his death last June, is beginning to slip in ratings.
Last month, CBS’s Face the Nation pulled ahead of Meet the Press for the first time in two…
Bloggers collectively create nearly one million blog posts each day, and half of bloggers believe blogs will be a primary source of news and entertainment in the next five years, according to Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report, MarketingCharts writes.…
Wal-Mart and Costco reported same-store gains in September, with sales rising 2.4% and 9% respectively. Sales at Target stores open at least a year fell 3%, writes Retailer Daily.
Below, fiscal results from the discount retail giants:
Sales of food and…
