Nielsen's $1.26 billion deal to acquire Arbitron would make the world's largest supplier of media and marketing research even bigger -- giving it not … Read the whole story
Before evaluating this proposed Nielsen-Arbitron acquisition, the U.S. regulators should open the evidence of the erinMedia vs. Nielsen antitrust suit. It would stop this … Read the whole story
DirecTV is making a slew of networks' programming available on-demand outside-the-home on multiple devices. Read the whole story
Last week at MadBlog, my "Best Spots of the Year" column ended with a mention of empty chairs. Yup -- I suggested that the … Read the whole story
While the senior TV and media executives have been mulling over changing industry-standard TV currency to C7 -- commercial ratings plus seven days of … Read the whole story
The shootings at Newtown carry a simple message: The status quo cannot be allowed to stand if we are to consider ourselves a civilized … Read the whole story
WPP digital shop Possible has rejiggered its management ranks and named Tamy Harms as president of the agency's Cincinnati office, where she will lead … Read the whole story
The worldwide pay TV market keeps growing in terms of subscribers, increasing 6% this year over 2012, with pay TV customer growth slowing down … Read the whole story
It was an interesting year in sports -- ranging from the cosmically weird opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics to the comically bad calls … Read the whole story
Martha Nelson has been named editor in chief of Time, Inc., the first woman to hold the title and only the seventh EIC in … Read the whole story
Publicis Groupe has acquired Stockholm-based mobile agency Monterosa. The holding company said the newly acquired mobile specialist will report into creative agency Bartle Bogle … Read the whole story