FCC chair Kevin Martin admits that the question of the proposed Sirius-XM merger has been in front of the commission for “a while,” and said he hopes to make a ruling on it “soon.”
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Some 85 percent of companies fail to personalize the first email message sent to new subscribers - and most don’t even send a welcome email, according to a study that analyzed the email programs of 61 leading retail, consumer goods, travel, and media & entertainment companies, reports MarketingCharts.
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At a special session tomorrow (Friday), the Screen Actors Guild president and national executive director will attempt to persuade dual cardholders to refuse to ratify the prime time TV deal recently agreed upon by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
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Rumors have pinpointed next Monday as the release date for Apple’s new 3G iPhone, and chances are that it will have built-in GPS.
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Newspaper companies’ digital platforms - including online and mobile - are growing at dizzying rates worldwide (in usage and revenue growth) and outperforming the traditional medium, according to the second annual World Digital Media Trends report, MarketingCharts writes.
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Though 46 percent of U.S. adults say they neither think nor act Green, the 2 percent who fall into the Green Advocates segment are among the most tech-savvy consumers, according to (pdf) Mediamark Research & Intelligence’s Survey of the American Consumer - via MarketingCharts.
If you haven’t heard of the Fuse cable music channel, you’re not alone. The channel pulls ratings too low to be measured by Nielsen, but Fuse’s owner, Cablevision, hopes to change that with a $15 million campaign.
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Interactive polling by text messaging is coming to cinema advertising via Screenvision beginning this month.
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Following the departure of managing editor Marcus Brauchli, the Wall Street Journal’s deputy managing editor for news, Bill Grueskin, is leaving his post to become dean of academic affairs at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
United Airlines’ reduced-fare option, Ted, is being discontinued, United announced this week. The jets will be rebranded as United planes beginning in 2009.
A favorite Swedish furniture retailer of young-marrieds is finally coming to New York City, and is announcing its arrival with fanfare.
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Yahoo has made a number of deals in hopes of changing its fortunes and quelling shareholder worries.
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