The Chicago Tribune will ring in its first new managing editor in three decades; George de Lama, managing editor for 30 years, or what he calls “two lifetimes’ worth of adventures,” is moving on.
Despite the fact that it was a modest hit, and won its time slot on Sunday nights, the reality show Oprah’s Big Give will not return to ABC next year.
Turner Broadcasting is launching a system called TVinContext which will allow advertisers to place ads that are related to the content of the programming.
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The CW is programming just 10 hours of the week, and the focus of the fledgling network with this fall’s season is the young, female audience.
To meet their information needs, America’s senior executives are voracious users of all media channels - including, increasingly, digital ones such as online video, blogs and podcasts - according to a study by Ipsos MediaCT, MarketingCharts reports.
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'Christine' returns after all CBS is the only network planning to air two full nights of comedy in the fall season. The network is building on its Monday block of four comedies, adding two on Wednesday night.
The strike impaired ABC’s development of new television shows, and the network plans to unveil only two new series in the fall - and only one of them scripted.
Budget Travel magazine is allowing readers to frolic through its pages in a whole new way: nearly all of the text and photography of the June issue was generated by readers.
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NBC’s unusual upfront garnered mixed reviews from the media crowd; some blamed the network for using the new format to draw attention away from a weak programming slate, while others liked the innovative format.
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In March, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with more than 4.3 billion videos viewed (38 percent share of all videos), gaining 2.6 share points form the previous month, according to comScore’s Video Metrix service, MarketingCharts reports.
NBCU produces nearly 100 health video clips per week across its various networks, local stations and web properties. Now, the network plans to package and distribute them across a network of niche websites.
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Just as American Gladiators had new life breathed into it last season, so, too, will a seventies favorite: The Gong Show, which aired in NBC daytime from 1976 to 1978, will be revived on Comedy Central.
The May sweeps are down by 7 million viewers compared to November 2007 sweeps, and many of the networks’ most popular shows are drawing between 2 million and 3 million fewer viewers than in the fall.
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Harvard alumni magazine 02138, launched in 2006, has been purchased by Manhattan Media, which plans to create a social network surrounding the title and then duplicate the operation for other Ivy League schools. The magazine is mailed free to about 100,000 Harvard alumni.
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The Christian Science Monitor is considering a weekly edition; the long-term goal may be to phase out the daily edition of the newspaper.
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Consumers are growing disenchanted with their television experience but are nonetheless loyal to their favorite programs, showing a marked preference for content over its delivery method, according to Accenture’s inaugural Global Broadcast Consumer Survey, writes MarketingCharts.
Nielsen’s C3 ratings, which will be used as currency during the upfront (taking place as we speak) for the second year in a row, have failed to achieve accreditation from the Media Rating Council.
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Fallon When Conan O’Brien steps off NBC’s Late Night stage to take over the Tonight show from Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon will step into the spotlight.
Conde Nast’s Elegant Bride is launching a redesign that focuses on the upscale bride in her thirties.
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BuzzCity, a provider of global wireless communities and consumer services, today announced that it has seen year-over-year growth of 917 percent in mobile ads served across its mobile advertising network in the U.S.
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