Citadel Broadcasting has underperformed the industry, particularly in the larger markets, in the last six to nine months, chairman/CEO Farid Suleman said during its second-quarter earnings conference call today.
In case there aren’t enough shows featuring bodily function humor and plenty of rude noises, tween boys will soon have a new television channel geared just to them. Disney, which has earned so much of its bread and butter parading princesses past young girls, is relaunching Toon Disney as Disney XD, aimed at boys ages 6 to 14.
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The surprisingly positive results of last Friday’s Yahoo shareholder vote prompted Capital Research Global Investors to demand a recount, after which the group discovered that the proxy voting intermediary made “significant errors,” reports Mediapost (via MarketingVOX).
Some 88 percent of mobile users in the U.K. are willing to receive pre-roll mobile ads in return for free video content, according to 4th Screen Advertising’s AdIndex for Mobile research, conducted by Dynamic Logic, reports MarketingCharts.
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Former NY Times reporter Sharon Waxman writes that Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek, and Editor & Publisher, along with dozens of other titles at Nielsen Business Media, are for sale.
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A 30-minute preview of NBC’s fall television season will be available via all of NBC’s media platforms beginning August 30.
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Coca-Cola will beam commercials directly to consumers’ cell phones at the Olympic Games later this month.
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Sony has acquired worldwide, exclusive distribution rights to Rocketboom in the hopes that the successful video blog will bring eyeballs to its web-based video entertainment network, Crackle.
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Parisian firm Publicis Groupe has purchased Performics Search Marketing, a division of DoubleClick that Google has been planning to sell.
