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Cable Nets, Especially ESPN, May See More Dollars This Year

More TV dollars will go toward cable TV this year, and ESPN looks to be the hot item when it comes to top-tier cable networks.

That’s according to a survey from Beta Research, which showed that 43 percent of media buyers and their clients will increase their ad spend on ESPN this year, while 33 percent plan to increase their spend with ESPN2, writes Mediaweek.

Turner networks TNT and TBS will also benefit from the increase in cable spending, with 39 percent saying they plan to up their spend on those networks.

Of the other networks:

  • 37 percent plan to increase spending with USA
  • 38 percent plan to invest more with Discovery Channel
  • 33 percent plan to spend more on HGTV, with the same amount saying they will buy more inventory from Comedy Central
  • 31 percent will spend more with Food Network.

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Katz Adds Lincoln Financial Media to Client List

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…

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‘Time’ Takes Top Magazine Slot for College Students

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…

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Despite Belt-Tightening, Out-of-Home Still Shows Promise

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,…

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CNN Floats More Affordable Wire Service to Newspapers

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…

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Icahn Snaps Up More Yahoo

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…

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Online TV, Video & Phone Show Biggest Yearly Growth

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…

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