FCC Hears Comments on Sirius-XM Merger
The FCC heard opponents and supporters of the proposed XM-Sirius merger yesterday, but little new ground was broken, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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The FCC heard opponents and supporters of the proposed XM-Sirius merger yesterday, but little new ground was broken, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The custom publishing industry continues to flourish, with custom publications becoming more sophisticated - and, as a result, editorial and design pay scales and personnel increasing at companies and organizations that produce custom publications, according to new research, writes MarketingCharts.
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Women not only outnumber men online but also rely on the internet for the conduct of their daily lives - so much so, that two-thirds (66.1 percent) of online women say their lives would be disrupted if they were left without internet access for a week, according to a recent Burst Media survey, writes MarketingCharts.
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Indian cities are highly ranked, while Chinese cities are on the rise and closely nipping at India’s heels, according to IDC’s new Global Delivery Index (GDI), which compares 35 cities in Asia/Pacific as potential offshore delivery centers, writes MarketingCharts.
Russia will overtake Spain to become a Top 5 European ad market in 2009, according to “This Year Next Year: Russia,” a media and marketing forecast from GroupM, which forecasts that media investment will grow 26 percent in 2007, to $9 billion, and 21 percent in 2008, MarketingCharts reports.
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In response to the complaints of a pastor of a church in Times Square, a New York state Supreme Court Justice has ordered a temporary restraining order against a company that proposed to put up ads that would have shown naked bottoms with smiley faces.
Arbitron Inc. today announced that Entravision Communications has signed a multi-year agreement for the PPM radio ratings services in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, Sacramento and Las Vegas, when the PPM is rolled out in those markets.
The worldwide series of Live Earth concerts set a new record for online streams delivered, reports Reuters (via MarketingVOX and Environmental Leader). But the concert proved a ratings disappointment in the UK for BBC1 on Saturday, drawing less than a third of the audience who tuned in last week for the Concert for Diana, Media Guardian reports.
Americans have conducted an average of 274,000 iPhone-related searches per week since the beginning of the year, and they generated more than 2 million click-throughs to Apple.com, according to a study by comScore, reports MarketingCharts.
Clear Channel Radio’s Total Traffic Network announced yesterday that it has begun transmitting traffic data via HD Radio in 48 of the largest U.S. markets. This launch marks the first commercially available data service over HD Radio.
