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Advertising industry

The Super Bowl â?? Most Watched TV Program Ever
High-Def Digest - 2 Hours ago
Over a million viewers made the Super Bowl more watched than the M*A*S*H finale. Itâ??s official. This yearâ??s Super Bowl has surpassed the 1983 series finale of M*A*S*H as the most watched television...

Saints' Super Bowl victory most watched event in TV history 94.5 The Fox

Super Bowl ad featuring Letterman, Leno and Oprah KVET

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Opinion: The weirdest ad campaign ever
CNN - 20 Hours ago
Carly Fiorina released the 'demon sheep' ad in California race for U.S. Senate David Frum says it may be the strangest campaign ad ever He says she's unfairly targeting Tom Campbell as a fiscal conservative Add Comment

Super Bowl ad: Speak out about Doritos anti-bark collar spot
USA Today - 2 Hours ago
READERS: Did the dog get his revenge in this ad? What's your take on these collars? Was this ad funny? Comment away. We've done numerous stories on how to get dogs to stop barking. Everything from having Add Comment

Motorola's Megan Fox ad stirs up some buzz online
Chicago Tribune - 3 Hours ago
Motorola's Super Bowl ad starring actress Megan Fox generated a fair amount of online chatter over the weekend, but not as much buzz as Google and Doritos, according to Chicago-based marketing firm Alterian. Add Comment

Cable industry

Vodafone Said to Bid for German Cable Company Kabel Deutschland
BusinessWeek - 3 Hours ago
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Vodafone Group Plc is bidding for Germanyâ??s largest cable operator Kabel Deutschland GmbH, challenging private-equity firms, according to two people familiar with the matter. Bids Add Comment

Zee Turner to take channels off Hathway
Business Standard India - 3 Hours ago
Zee Turner, the TV channel distribution joint venture between the Turner Group and the Essel Group, has said it would stop Hathway Datacomm from airing 33 channels, since Hathway had defaulted on its

Zee Turner may take channels off Hathway Cable networks Reuters India

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Cablevision Names Schueler to EVP Post - Zibb.com
Zibb - 15 Hours ago
Company: Cablevision Systems Corp. (CVC) Cablevision Systems Corp. announced the appointment of Charles Schueler to executive vice president, communications and community relations. Schueler previously

Cablevision Names Schueler to EVP Post Individual.com

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FRP cable tray and ladder systems now available from Grating Company
Ferret.com.au - 21 Hours ago
Grating Company announce their new line of composite cable tray and cable ladder systems that can be custom designed to suit specific requirements. Features of the composite cable tray and cable ladder Add Comment

Digital television

Taifatech Releases PC2HDTV Full HD Interactive Solution
TMC Net - 10 Hours ago
(Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Taifatech Inc., a provider of system-on-a chip (SoC) solutions for the Digital Home, announced the launch of a full HD solution for connecting PC and other video devices Add Comment

A 50in 'HD' plasma for under $1,000!
PC Authority - 21 Hours ago
Soniq's latest 50in plasma utilises Panasonic's cutting edge panels, while at under $1000, there's still change left over for a Blu-Ray and speaker system. We all know that it's ridiculously cheap to Add Comment

Digital Broadcasting Group Integrates Datran Medias Aperture Technology To Help
AFP via Yahoo! - 21 Hours ago
-- Digital Broadcasting Group (DBG), a full-service video network specializing in the original production and distribution of video content across the Internet and other digital media, today announced

Digital Broadcasting Group Integrates Datran Media's Aperture Technology To Help TMC Net

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TiVo This: White House to Host Civil Rights Music Event
The Root - 22 Hours ago
th, when the President and First Lady will host â??In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movementâ? â?? a concert celebrating Black History month. Participants Add Comment

Journalism

Press Conference: Well-Known Professor and Hurricane Expert to Announce Filing of
Forbes.com - 6 Hours ago
A lawsuit against Louisiana State University and university officials alleging a campaign of harassment and the wrongful termination of a well-known professor and hurricane expert for his outspoken criticisms Add Comment

Legislator outraged at journalists arrests in Medan
Jakarta Post - 14 Hours ago
House of Representatives Commission I legislator Ramadhan Pohan lashed out at the administration of Adam Malik Hospital in Medan, North Sumatra, for having five journalists arrested for covering alleged Add Comment

President witnesses Indonesian School of Journalism MoU signing
Antara News - 16 Hours ago
Palembang, S. Sumatra (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono here Tuesday witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the opening of an Indonesian School of Journalism. Add Comment

iPad tweet lands editor in hot water with Apple
Guardian.co.uk - 21 Hours ago
Apple has spent years fine-tuning its incredible reputation for secrecy - doing everything from investigating its own employees when information is leaked to the media to silencing teenage bloggers who Add Comment

Media: Europe

BBC paid top stars 229 mln pounds last year (Reuters)
Yahoo! News Australia - 3 Hours ago
LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The BBC revealed on Tuesday that it paid its top presenters 229 million pounds last year, in a move widely seen as an attempt to quell growing disquiet over the pay packets of

BBC's top stars paid 54 million The Independent

BBC paid top stars Â£229 million last year DNA India

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BBC top executives' expenses up by 8pc
Telegraph - 7 Hours ago
The 107 most senior executives at the BBC spent 188,284 of licence fee-payers' money on meals, hotels and travel between July and September last year, an increase of 13,634, or 7.8 per cent, on the previous

BBC executives' expenses rise by 8% as corporation spends Â£54m on its top-earning Mail Online UK

BBC spends Â£54million on its top-earning stars as executive expense claims hit Mail Online UK

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BSkyB to sell about 10.4 per cent stake in ITV
New Statesman - 7 Hours ago
Pay TV group BSkyB has decided to end its two-year legal battle to hold on to the 17.9 per cent stake in ITV, and agreed to sell a stake of about 10.4 per cent. The government has reportedly accepted

BSkyB sells ITV shares Irish Examiner

U.K.'s BSkyB sells ITV stake Variety

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TV presenter breaks kayak record
BBC - 2 Hours ago
Blue Peter's Helen Skelton breaks kayak record Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton completes 1000 miles on her Amazon journey Blue Peter presenter

BBC presenter breaks kayak record BBC

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Online content

Coffee Break: Police relying on YouTube; Nexus One fees
USA Today - 6 Hours ago
Cops using YouTube to find criminals; Google cuts fees to break Nexus One contract. Add Comment

Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up
CNET News.com - 14 Hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO--Stewart Butterfield and his business partner Cal Henderson stared at the MacBook Pro in front of them. For nearly a year, they'd been struggling to figure out what to call the game their Add Comment

Obama's White House keeps its cool in turbulent times
Seattle Times - 3 Hours ago
During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama and Joe Biden had a Felix and Oscar air about them. Obama was disciplined and professorial while Biden was tactile and approachable. Biden would make an

White House press grumbles as Obama does YouTube Los Angeles Times

White House press corps feels bypassed by Obama in favor of TV shows, YouTube Washington Post

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Cops using YouTube to find criminals
USA Today - 20 Hours ago
By the time police in Suffolk, Va., got to the scene of a large street fight on the afternoon of Dec. 14, there wasn't much to see. Those involved in the fight had scattered, and witnesses were not talking, Add Comment

Broadcasting industry

Toyota dealers pull ads from ABC over 'excessive' news coverage
Guardian.co.uk - 3 Hours ago
Franchises take business to rival networks after ABC reporter helped break story of 'runaway Toyotas' More than 170 Toyota dealers in the US have withdrawn advertising from one of the country's biggest

ABC stations question why Toyota pulled local ads SmartBrief

Toyota Dealers Pull Ads on ABC for 'Excessive Stories' on Recalls New York Times

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Council-run TV channel to close
BBC - 3 Hours ago
Kent's council-run internet TV channel to close A council internet TV service is to be closed as part of a cost-cutting exercise. Kent TV, run by Kent County Council, will be scrapped in March. The service, Add Comment

Police: Iraq War Vet Joshua Tabor Waterboarded 4-Year-Old Daughter Over ABC's
CBS News - 6 Hours ago
Father Admitted Holding Daughter in Sink Because She was Afraid of Water, Police Say Add Comment

ITV fined over rat killing
Virgin Media - 3 Hours ago
ITV has been fined 1,672 after 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!' contestants on killed and ate a rat. TV chef Gino D'Acampo - who went on to win the 2009 series of the show - and actor Stuart Manning

Britain's ITV Fined Over Killing A Rat On TV Show Post Chronicle

TV show fined for killing, eating rat â?? with risotto Seattle Times

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Online information

Survey Raises Questions on Data-Driven Policy
New York Times - 14 Hours ago
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, an engineering major in college, has never been shy about proclaiming an unerring faith in statistics. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg defended the crime tracking system. He created

Crime Survey Raises Questions About Data-Driven Policy New York Times

Questioning Crime Data, and Other Data Behind Bloomberg Policy New York Times

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Elsevier celebrates scientists groundbreaking work with competition
Information World Review - 3 Hours ago
Elsevier, the publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has launched a competition for excellence in methodology and approach in a peer-reviewed publication. Called

Elsevier celebrates scientistsâ?? groundbreaking work with competition Computing.co.uk

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Interactive Data products and services overview
Bobsguide - 3 Hours ago
â?¢ Evaluations â?¢ Pricing and reference data â?¢ Real-time market data â?¢ Desktop solutions â?¢ Web-based solutions â?¢ Fixed income analytics Interactive Data Corporation Add Comment

Thomson Reuters Acquires Aegisoft
Finance Tech Online - 6 Hours ago
Thomson Reuters has acquired Aegisoft, a provider of electronic trading and testing tools, in an effort to increase its direct market access (DMA) capabilities. Aegisoft offers the Athena product, a multi-asset Add Comment

Online marketing

Social media and SEO: Where you'll spend your marketing budget this year
Silicon.com - 7 Hours ago
Facebook, Twitter, search optimisation are winners as digital marketing increases NEWS Businesses are putting greater emphasis on digital marketing with investment predicted to increase by 17 per cent

ANA: Social Media, Web Spend Up, TV Down Media Post

Authenticity 'is vital for social media marketing' Experian QAS UK

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95% of user-generated content was malicious in 2H 2009: Websense report
San Francisco Chronicle - 18 Hours ago
Wow. Security firm Websense just released a report on the cyber-threat landscape during the second half of 2009 and, I have to say, some of the findings were jaw dropping. I'll go through some of the

95% of user generated content 'is spam' MSN UK

All that user-generated content? 95% is malware, spam ArsTechnica

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Online ad improvement seen in IAC's 4Q loss
Yahoo! via Wap - 7 Hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO - Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp lost $ 1 billion in the fourth quarter because it wrote down the value of its search business, but the results beat expectations and offered the latest Add Comment

Media

ANA: Social Media, Web Spend Up, TV Down Media Post

Authenticity 'is vital for social media marketing' Experian QAS UK

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Morningstar buys Footnoted
Chicago Tribune - 6 Hours ago
ced its acquisition of the Footnoted business of Financial Fineprint Inc., including the Web site Footnoted.org and the Footnoted Pro service. Terms of the deal between Morningstar and the privately held

Morningstar acquires Footnoted for undisclosed sum Poynter Institute

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Tories: we'll block regional TV news plan from getting through parliament
Guardian.co.uk - 3 Hours ago
'This is a redline for us', says shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt of plan for independently funded news consortiums The shadow culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has ratcheted up his opposition to the Add Comment

Sky News's cloudy vision | Media Monkey
Guardian.co.uk - 10 Hours ago
Most news organisations jumped on Sky's decision late yesterday to offload most of its stake in ITV. With one notable exception. That's right. Sky News's ticker on the bottom of the screen seemed oblivious Add Comment



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