TiVo is preparing to introduce services to help advertisers be noticed even when viewers skip through commercials on its digital video recorders.

With support from both Republicans and Democrats, the Federal Communications Commission is poised to get even more aggressive about enforcing moral values throughout broadcasting, even putting cable television in its cross hairs and taking aim at Howard Stern's right to talk dirty on satellite radio. It looks like only the courts will stand in the way of the FCC now. But a funny thing could happen on the way to washing Eric Cartman's mouth out with soap: Conservative judges might just say no. After all, not too long ago the Supreme Court rejected efforts to censor the internet.

Martin Sorrell wants WPP to be the world's largest marketing machine. With his most recent acquisition, he's almost there.

The Federal Communications Commission announced Wednesday that it would examine a television promotion for the ABC drama "Desperate Housewives" after viewers complained about the spot's depiction of an apparently nude actress.

The city of Los Angeles has accused Omnicom Group PR firm Fleishman-Hillard of overbilling the city more than $4 million stemming from contracts with the city.

The original Mr. Wendy is back. Pictures of Wendy's founder Dave Thomas, who died of liver cancer in January 2002, will be featured in a new series of advertisements celebrating the fast-food chain's 35th anniversary, company officials said.

The tool that lets viewers control the TV will soon sport 'billboards' and track viewing habits.

SBC Communications, as part of its effort to compete head-on with the cable industry for television subscribers, plans to announce today that it will pay $400 million to Microsoft for software used to deliver TV programming over high-speed data lines.

U.S. department store operator Sears, Roebuck & Co. and discount retailer Kmart Holding Corp. on Wednesday said they would merge in an $11 billion deal to form the third-largest U.S. retailer.

The chairman of the News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, may be telling investors and the media that his relationship with his counterpart at Liberty Media, John C. Malone, is friendly, as he did yesterday at an annual meeting. But Mr. Murdoch is clearly not taking any chances that he might lose control of the News Corporation, which he plans to turn over to his sons: Lachlan, now deputy chief operating officer, and James, chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting, Mr. Murdoch's satellite TV company in Britain.