• Cable Upfront Moving Slowly by David Goetzl

    The slow-moving cable upfront has at least one major hurdle to clear before it kicks into high gear: ABC. Until the broadcast market wraps--and ABC is the principal reason for the hold-up--sources said cable is mostly engaged in a waiting game. ...Read the whole story

  • Drexler Retires, Optimedia Restructured - Again by Joe Mandese

    Mike Drexler, one of Madison Avenue's best known, and once among it's most influential media directors, is retiring as part of a further restructuring of Optimedia, the alternative brand within Publicis' ZenithOptimedia Group. Antony Young, a fast-rising executive who most recently was CEO of ZenithOptimedia's U.K. group, will succeed Drexler who officially retires as CEO of the U.S. operations this summer. The move is another chapter in the saga of Optimedia, still a relatively small media services brand in the U.S., but one that carries significant weight in some international markets where it actually dominates the Zenith brand. ...Read the whole story

  • Mag Bag: The Glass Ceiling is Shattered by Erik Sass

    A new magazine for professional women set on breaking the proverbial "glass ceiling" of gender discrimination in the upper echelons of the executive world--the aptly named Shattered--was launched in mid-June by Shattered Magazine LLC, a privately owned publishing firm based in New York. "Coverage of women in business tends to focus on a few female corporate superstars or the difficulties women face in juggling career and family," according to Julie Ros, publisher and editor in chief. ...Read the whole story

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