In a move that takes a big step toward preventing another television industry strike, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has reached a tentative deal with Hollywood studios on a three-year contract.
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TiVo has signed a deal with Disney-ABC and CinemaNow to offer Disney movie downloads for 24-hour rental. The service will be available later this year to broadband connected TiVo Series2 and Series3 subscribers.
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Consumers prefer email as a primary method of personal and business communication - and will continue to do so the foreseeable future, despite online threats and the emergence of other channels and Web 2.0 applications, according to a Habeas study, MarketingCharts writes.
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The Washington Post is rolling out its first ad-supported widget this week. The widget, an apartment-finding tool sponsored by realty company the Bozzuto Group, will be available on WashingtonPost.com and through Google’s content advertising network.
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Advertisers may well be in the catbird seat this upfront; the outlook is gloomy for broadcasters, with forecasts predicting the overall upfront will be flat to down from last year’s $24.5 billion (across broadcast, cable and syndicated TV).
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Media Rights Capital is partnering with the CW on Sunday nights, and has announced its programs for the evening. The network will air a reality show, a sitcom and two scripted dramas during Sunday prime time.
Clear Channel is crying foul over Tribune Co.’s hiring of Andy Friedman, previously Clear Channel’s vp of news, talk and sports at its music and radio division.
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The publisher of a popular but now defunct hip-hop magazine, the Hip Hop Hit List, plans to launch a pair of business rags targeting the genre’s entrepreneurial community.
Print ads are successful in driving readers to advertiser websites, according to a new study from the Magazine Publishers of America.
Digitally Savvy* consumers are 56 percent more likely than average to own or lease a luxury vehicle, 175 percent more likely to have spent $500 or more on men’s or women’s business clothing in the past year, and 49 percent more likely to own a second home, according to (pdf) Scarborough Research, writes MarketingCharts.
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List management company Specialists Marketing Services has acquired Response Media’s list management division, and will merge the unit into SMS’s list management division, writes BtoB.
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While big media companies are putting a positive spin on the effects of the sluggish economy, it is clear they are feeling the pinch of what Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg is now calling a recession.
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