Now that digital video recorders are letting TV viewers zip past commercials, many in the advertising community can't help but wonder what will become of the traditional 30-second advertisements that long have been the cornerstone of TV ad campaigns.

Feature film production could screech to a halt in as little as three weeks if Hollywood's actors and industry negotiators do not reach a new contract by the end of the month, industry sources said Monday.

Many in the radio industry were surprised in late December when Citadel's WAXQ (95X) Syracuse, N.Y., pulled Howard Stern's show in favor of controversial talkers Opie & Anthony, seemingly exiled from terrestrial radio since 2002. However, the duo, currently being heard on XM Satellite Radio, viewed their two-week run at the active rock station as a trial run for their return to radio. Co-host Anthony Cumia tells Billboard Radio Monitor the duo would "absolutely" be interested in replacing some of Stern's affiliates if the situation was right.

The Uninvited. Great name for a ghost story. But this tale isn't about ghosts. It's about a media presence so palpable that half of all consumers want to run the other way. This is about intrusive media like TV and Radio and the price advertisers pay for that intrusion.

Attention, blue-state parents. Are you worried about what your children are seeing on TV? Have you caught them ogling Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity as they engage in explicit acts of love with Bush administration policies?

Ah, dangerous love! How many times have I fired off messages while driving at 70 miles per hour?

Rupert Murdoch, consolidating his global media empire in the United States, is expected to announce today that he will buy out the shareholders of his Fox properties for about $7 billion, executives involved in the deal said last night.

With quality video cell phones on the way, media companies are thinking small.

Neither the outcry over the content of Super Bowl commercials last year nor the fallout from the episode involving Janet Jackson during the halftime show have deterred a lengthy list of blue-chip marketers from signing up as sponsors this year.

The New York Times, January 10, 2005 Marie Kurth does not subscribe to The Denver Post, but that did not stop the paper from being tossed haphazardly in front of her century-old red-brick home each Sunday beginning in October.