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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 with advertising.
A report earlier in the summer said that the Trib would test moving national, international and local news to section two, with the front section being devoted to consumer-oriented issues and entertainment features.
All of Tribune Co.’s papers have been or will be redesigned this summer and fall - but none of the company’s efforts have gone far enough to boost its financial outlook, writes Chicago Business. Analyst Dave Novosel of Gimme Credit LLC wrote, in a note to clients, that, while bankruptcy is not imminent, “it is hard to envision a catalyst that will drive these bonds higher.”
The company has eliminated more than 900 positions in recent months, and has sold Newsday, in order to pay down some of the monumental debt taken on when the company went private with Sam Zell last year.
CBS Radio and Yahoo, two of the largest online radio providers, are combining their online radio stations, beginning early next year.
CBS Radio’s 150 stations and LaunchCast’s 150 online stations will be integrated into Yahoo’s music site, powered by CBS…
Cox Enterprises, Inc. announced today that the company is bringing together its three media units - Cox Newspapers, Cox Television and Cox Radio - under a new organization named Cox Media Group, Inc., effective January 2009. The subsidiary will be headquartered…
Target is one of the first brands to create an iPhone application. The Target “gift globe” allows iPhone users to shake their phones to launch a snow-fall effect.
When the snow clears, a gift idea from Target is revealed. Users…
ABC is set to launch a slew of new series in a midseason shuffle. Primetime: What Would You Do? returns Tuesday, Jan. 9, in the 10pm time slot. The show is a hidden camera experiment in which actors stage scenarios…
Only 28% of the audience of an average news program, website or magazine gets valuable information about products and services advertised there, making news venues less effective at conveying ad messages than all forms of media combined (see chart), according…
Effective immediately, any telemarketing call that delivers a prerecorded message must include a quick and easy way to opt-out of receiving future calls. The opt-out must work both for consumers who answer these calls in person and for those whose…
