Viacom has decided to settle a variety of outstanding indecency complaints filed against it with the Federal Communications Commission, but the media giant is still challenging the $550,000 penalty related to the Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident. ...Read the whole story
Betsy Frank, the former Madison Avenue media research guru who became MTV's head of research and planning in 1997, has expanded her portfolio to include oversight of Showtime, BET, Paramount Pictures and Simon & Schuster, as part of a longer-term restructuring of the management team of parent Viacom. ...Read the whole story
Now that NBC's Tom Brokaw is making his final farewells as he vacates the anchor seat Dec. 1, Dan Rather announced Tuesday that he will step down as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News" on March 9, 2005--24 years after his first broadcast in that position. ...Read the whole story
Ducks Unlimited has perhaps the biggest reason to quack in the consumer magazine space. According to the Fall 2004 Mediamark Research (MRI) numbers released last week, Ducks saw the largest increase in audience size over the past year on a percentage basis among measured magazines, as its audience soared by 46 percent to over 3 million readers. ...Read the whole story
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