Timo Lumme today was named marketing director by the International Olympic Committee, according to the IOC. He starts the job in November.

Viacom Inc. on Tuesday merged the international operations of two traditionally separate divisions: CBS and Paramount Television.

Emap, the publisher of the magazines Heat and FHM, is paying more than £52m to take control of Europe's leading and longest-running advertising festival, the Cannes Lions.

Although Sen. John F. Kerry has essentially stopped advertising, the Democratic National Committee and like-minded organizations kept the presidential candidate's mess- age on television in battleground states and spent more than twice as much as the Bush campaign during the first week of August.

Viacom Inc. said advertising at its 185 radio stations might not improve through September, continuing a trend that last quarter caused the radio unit to lag behind the company's other media divisions.

Time Inc. on Friday launches All You, a unique newsstand-only monthly magazine for distribution initially where the target audience shops nationwide -- Wal-Mart stores.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Will & Grace" passed the indecency test at the FCC on Monday as the agency rejected complaints against the popular TV shows filed by two conservative-leaning interest groups.

The National Football League, stung by last year's "wardrobe malfunction" during the Super Bowl halftime show, has taken control of all entertainment related to its games.

Following the latest faulty circulation report, this time from The Dallas Morning News, the Audit Bureau of Circulations is anticipating that more papers will follow suit. "Do we expect more to come forward?" asks Martha Dittmar, spokesperson for ABC. "Yes."

Unlike those other notoriously missing items - the weapons of mass destruction - television's missing young men appear to have been found, back in front of their TV sets. In a development that several Nielsen critics call utterly predictable, the most recent evidence indicates that the young men are back, watching television in pretty much the same numbers they were two years ago.