 | | | | Thursday • June 19, 2008 | READ ALL NEWS AT ADAGE.COM | | Strong Upfront Sales for Cable, Syndie 10% Increase for Cable, 4.5% for Syndication
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- It looks like 2008 will not go down as the year marketers relied less on TV after all. After the broadcast upfront wrapped last week with a surprisingly strong $9.2 billion haul, the cable and syndication upfront markets -- both expected to be about 80% wrapped this week and completely finished by July 4 -- have posted even more significant increases.  FULL ARTICLE
| | Dobrow Rummages in a Dusty Corner of the Web Media Reviews for Media People: History Sites
After a visit to the American Museum of Natural History, looking for answers online to my nephew's questions took a lot longer than it should've. Turns out that there isn't a single decent general-interest history site on the web. I can understand why -- history encompasses a lot of stuff -- but I'd have thought that somebody would've at least attempted the feat by now. FULL ARTICLE | | AFI's Top Movies Lose Out to NBA, 'America's Got Talent' Rash Report: NBA Finals Up 64% Over Last Year's Ratings
MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) -- The professional athletes and actors in Tuesday's big game of the NBA Finals and on the big screen in CBS's "AFI's 10 Top 10" once again show that, indeed, America's got professional talent. FULL ARTICLE | | Getting Aussies to Visit the Land Down Under Tourism Australia Teams with Lonely P***t for 'Traveltainment' CMDGlobal Idea Of the Week Tourism Australia had to fulfill one simple objective: to get more Australians to holiday more often in Australia. The solution was a "Traveltainment" strategy, which presented new and genuinely different experiences to rekindle holidaymakers' love for Australian holidays. FULL ARTICLE | |
What You Should Have Read, June 19, 2008
TV networks brace for potential actors strike
Reuters reports as Hollywood recovers from a tumultuous writers walkout that ended in February, U.S. TV networks are bracing for a possible actors strike that could delay the upcoming fall TV season. Jitters over renewed labor unrest have mounted in recent days as contract talks between the Screen Actors Guild and the major film and TV studios have grown increasingly rancorous with little or no sign that a settlement is near.The three-year labor pact covering film and prime-time TV work for 120,000 SAG members is due to expire in two weeks. FULL ARTICLE | |
What You Should Have Read, June 19, 2008
Meredith's Editorial Director, Mike LaFavore, Quits Post
Mediaweek reports publishing vet Mike LaFavore is quitting as editorial director of Meredith Corp.'s magazines, a newly created position that he assumed in October 2005. LaFavore, the founding editor of Men's Health and former editor of TV Guide, said he told Meredith Publishing Group president Jack Griffin a month ago of his plans to quit and agreed to wait until the end of the quarter that ends June 30. LaFavore said he plans to go back into editorial consulting, which he had been doing for the year prior to joining Meredith. He also hopes to work for presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign. FULL ARTICLE | | > > Read All News at AdAge.com | | | | |
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