»
ABC has created a series of half-hour specials that preview its new fall shows and some of its hits, and will be offering the specials to its affiliates in upcoming weeks. Affiliates have week-long windows in August and September in which to air the specials exclusively. After that time period, ABC will begin airing them on ABC.com, ABC Family and SoapNet through September 23, writes MediaPost.
ABC Fall First Look: The New Wednesday will preview Pushing Daisies, Private Practice and Dirty Sexy Money. ABC Fall First Look: Bigger Bolder Thursday will review Ugly Betty and Grey’s Anatomy and will show clips of Big Shots and Women’s Murder Club. ABC Fall First Look: The New Funny gives sneak peeks at Samantha Who?, Carpoolers and Cavemen.
Katz Media Group has added another new client, Lincoln Financial Media, and will sell ad time on the company’s 15 stations beginning immediately.
Katz also added CBS Radio and Entercom last week, picking them off from Interep’s list.
Katz has also…
Time magazine ousted Cosmo as the top magazine for college students in this year’s Anderson Analytics fall survey.
Time also jumped past People, which was last year’s No. 2, writes Ad Age. A Time spokesperson said the magazine did not run…
Out-of-home companies are bracing for the recession like everyone else, but they may not feel the sting as badly as other media.
Though the third quarter brought negative growth to the nation’s three largest OOH companies - Clear Channel Outdoor,…
CNN plans to offer newspapers a wire service as an alternative to the Associated Press. CNN, which already runs an internal wire service, will explain its new, expanded service to editors from about 30 papers who are visiting Atlanta this…
Regulatory filings reveal that billionaire hedge-fund manager Carl Icahn bought nearly 7 million additional shares — about $67 million worth — of Yahoo.
The investor paid an average of $9.92 for each share over the course of three days, bringing…
Email, news gathering and paying bills continue to be the most widely used online activities among U.S. adults, but downloading TV programs, watching videos and making web phone calls posted the biggest overall growth, according to data from Mediamark Research…
