Showtime has canceled "Happyish" after one season -- an unusually short run for a series on pay cable. But it wasn't the show's subject matter that doomed it. Read the whole story
Through the summer TV season so far -- May 21 through July 24 -- the top earners in terms of national advertising dollars are … Read the whole story
For four weeks in a row, NBC has maintained its high status among TV news viewers when it comes to its "NBC Nightly News" … Read the whole story
Clear Channel Airports and Monster Media are joining forces to mount high-visibility campaigns integrating device charging displays at airports in Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas/Fort … Read the whole story
An official from the Mississippi Attorney General's office proposed that the Motion Picture Association of America help coordinate a "media blitz" against Google -- … Read the whole story
Natural curves are on display in the latest Carl's Jr. and Hardee's ad, promoting its Mushroom & Swiss All-Natural Burger. The ad budget was … Read the whole story
AT&T's $49 billion merger with DirecTV cleared its last regulatory hurdle today, when the Federal Communications Commission announced it had approved the deal. Read the whole story
Eric Mathewson, CEO of WideOrbit, started his career in another numbers-intensive industry: equity derivatives at Kidder Peabody, where he focused on hedging transactions for … Read the whole story
With ESPN making cutbacks of high-priced talent -- not renewing contracts for Keith Olbermann, Bill Simmons, and Colin Cowherd -- the question becomes, what … Read the whole story
Charlene Weisler and I thought it would be an interesting proposition for this week's Audience Buying Insider to allow some of the prominent programmatic … Read the whole story
It will make 'Mad Men' look like 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,' per Della Femina. Read the whole story
As the late Sen. Everett Dirksen famously observed, "a billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money." And to … Read the whole story
Less than 2,000 people came to the first VidCon in 2010, held in a hotel in Los Angeles. Over 20,000 are at this one … Read the whole story