• Creating Reagan's Image S.F. Ad Man Riney Helped Secure Him a Second Term (San Fransisco Chronicle)
    Some people thought that Hal Riney's "Morning Again in America'' 1984 image campaign for Ronald Reagan would forever change political advertising. The thinking was that positive and poetic would trump crass and demeaning.
  • NBC Expands Olympics Hours, 90 Pct Sold on Ads (Reuters)
    Television broadcaster NBC will expand its coverage of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and has sold nearly 90 percent of its advertising time for the games, executives said on Wednesday.
  • Jos. A. Bank Ad Data are Subpoenaed by Spitzer (Baltimore Sun)
    New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, whose recent investigations have shaken up Wall Street and the mutual fund industry, has subpoenaed information from Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc., the Hampstead men's clothing manufacturer.
  • Fox News has Topper for CNN (New York Daily News)
    Fox News is topping CNN - literally. The cable news network that revels in taunting its rival has just put up a big sign proclaiming its No. 1 status smack on top of a CNN billboard at the corner of 47th St. and Sixth Ave.
  • Comcast in Talks to Begin Children's Cable Channel (New York Times)
    Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator, is in talks with potential partners to create a digital cable channel for children, according to people close to the discussions. The 24-hour channel would not carry advertising and would give Comcast yet another niche cable network. It also owns the Golf Channel, the E! Entertainment channel, Outdoor Life and TV1, a channel aimed at black viewers.
  • Coca - Cola President / COO Heyer Is Leaving (Reuters)
    Coca-Cola Co. President and Chief Operating Officer Steven Heyer, who was passed over for the top job in May, is leaving the company, the world's biggest soft drink maker said on Wednesday.
  • ABC, CBS Holding Out for Better Upfront Ad Deals (Reuters)
    Television networks ABC and CBS are driving the hardest bargains with advertisers in the annual upfront market for locking in commercial time, betting on stronger sales later in the year, media buyers and network sources said on Tuesday.
  • 'Tweener' TV Too Hot for Parents? (San Francisco Chronicle)
    As a matter of fact, it is your father's Oldsmobile. It's amazing how it's so hard to avoid becoming your parents or, worse, parenting like them. In a world that rapidly seems to pass adult traits to the young, television has always been a culprit, sometimes with good reason. And yet, in the subculture known as "tweeners" -- kids still looking up at their teen years but feeling more mature than their age or the television geared toward them -- some of the programming may alarm parents. Or it may encourage them.
  • Sorry, Duke, but It's a Really Cool TV Show (LA Times - registration required)
    A county supervisor suggests renaming John Wayne Airport after the Fox hit 'The O.C.'
  • Radio Giant In Record Indecency Settlement (Washington Post)
    The Federal Communications Commission has reached a record-setting, nearly $2 million settlement with Clear Channel Communications Inc. that would clear the radio giant of all charges of indecency lodged against it, including on-air remarks made by shock jock Howard Stern, according to government and radio industry sources.
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