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Robin Schwartz, president of Regency Television, will take over the helm of all key business functions for OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.
As president of OWN, which will debut in 2009, Schwartz will lead development, programming, production, marketing, research and communications; she will work with advertising sales and distribution, as well, according to Broadcasting & Cable.
Schwartz will report to the CEO, who has yet to be named.
Prior to her stint as president of Regency, Schwartz was vp of programming at ABC Family. She calls the opportunity the “chance of a lifetime to work on expanding a brand and a philosophy I so greatly admire.”
The Spanish Radio Association says Arbitron still has not addressed its concerns and research questions regarding the PPM and how “Hispanics are recruited and represented, and how the PPM panel is maintained.”
The SRA has been working with Arbitron in…
The Chicago Tribune’s new design will launch on Sept. 29, Tribune Co. chief operating officer Randy Michaels says. No details on the redesign have been released; the paper has already been decreasing its editorial pages to create a more even split…
Teens are not the best demo to target with cell phone advertising, according to a new study from comScore. Though they are cell phone-savvy, most of them - 70 percent - have their phones paid for by parents, which means…
CNN won its second night of coverage of the Democratic National Convention Tuesday. The network averaged 3.41 million viewers in the 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. time slot, despite the fact that Fox drew nearly even for the night.
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Generation Y is the most self-indulgent, Generation X is the most innovative, and Boomers are the most productive, while the “Silent Generation” and the “Greatest Generation” are the most admired, according to a recent survey by Harris Interactive, writes MarketingCharts.
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To encourage shoppers to buy more back-to-school items, retailers often implement “loss leader” strategies: that is, selling items at a loss or even giving them away in hopes that the reductions will attract shoppers who will then buy other, more…
