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  • ‘Tonight’ Switch Exposes Broadcasters’ Losses to New Media

    NBC’s decision to hand off stewardship of “The Tonight Show,” the most popular late-night program, highlights the dilemma facing all of the major networks: shrinking audiences for broadcast TV.

  • GM's $3 Million Ads a Bargain If Super Bowl Meets Record Audience Forecast

    Super Bowl advertisers Audi AG and General Motors Co. may end up getting a bargain for 30-second spots costing a record $3 million or more, if the audience for the Fox telecast reaches new highs as forecast.

  • Economy of the Super Bowl: Insight into Advertising

    Jon Swallen, senior vice president of research for Kantar Media, a leading ad tracking company, shares his insight into Super Bowl advertising. Kantar Media has studied trends in the games commercials over the last 10 years. This year the Super Bowl goes high-tech, live streaming on the web with commercials different than those TV viewers will see offering marketers even more opportunities to reach their audience. (Source: Bloomberg)

  • Dish’s Ad-Skip Tool May Benefit From Cablevision DVR Case

    The dispute over whether Dish Network Corp.’s ad-skipping technology violates network television copyrights may turn on which court the second-biggest U.S. satellite-TV service persuades to hear the matter.

  • GM Reports CFO’s Wife in 2011 Related-Party Transaction

    General Motors Co. said Pernilla Ammann, the wife of Chief Financial Officer Dan Ammann, is an officer and a partner in an advertising agency that received about $600,000 for services last year to a GM subsidiary.

  • GM Says It Won’t Advertise During Next Super Bowl Game

    General Motors Co., which announced plans this week to cut Facebook advertising, said it won’t run ads during the next National Football League Super Bowl championship game.

  • GM Says It No Longer Plans to Advertise on Facebook

    Facebook Inc.’s loss of paid advertising from General Motors Co., the world’s biggest automaker, may spur other marketers to reconsider ads on the site and hamper sales growth just as the social network debuts as a publicly traded company, an analyst said.

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