It has been 25 years since Michael Jackson released Thriller - the album that rocketed Jackson to international stardom - and to celebrate, XM Radio is dedicating a channel to the pop icon.
The Chicago Sun-Times, with 1.1 million weekly readers, is claiming in a new ad campaign that it is the best-read daily inside the Chicago city limits.
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An ad for the play The Vagina Monologues was rejected by the Seattle Times as being inappropriate for the newspaper’s audience.
The USPS is increasing postage for magazines by 2.7 percent beginning May 12. The rate hike, which follows last year’s significant increase of 11 percent, was expected.
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Yahoo’s formal rejection of Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid left the door open to give Yahoo management a chance to propose a plan to boost the stock above Microsoft’s bid, to solicit rival offers, and to attempt to raise the offering price from Microsoft, analysts say.
Media Monitors is incorporating Arbitron’s PPM data in a move that will correlate audience size and listening patterns to programming on a minute-by-minute basis.
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African Americans are crucial to the consumer economy, with a population of 39 million and buying power of $892 billion - a figure expected to exceed $1.1 trillion in 2012 - according to a Packaged Facts study, reports MarketingCharts.
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Time magazine’s newsstand sales fell 19.4 percent to 107,277 in the second half of 2007, compared to the same period in 2006, according to the latest audit report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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A new report finds that 86 percent of African Americans read magazines, and they read more issues per month than the general market.
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U.S. internet users watched more than 10 billion videos online in December 2007, according to comScore’s Video Metrix, which reported that the month was the heaviest in viewing since it began tracking online video consumption, writes MarketingCharts.
Macy’s is just one advertiser that is buying ads on more radio stations in PPM markets Houston and Philadelphia, according to some panelists at the Radio Advertising Bureau conference in Atlanta yesterday.
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Armed with news that the writers strike is about to end, ABC renewed nine shows for the 2008-09 season. None of the pickups were completely unexpected.
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