Archives 2002

Wednesday, January 2, 2002

• Welcome to 2002, a better ad year
  By how much? When? For whom? Muse with us.
• NBC's Xmas gift to ABC and CBS
  Ratings recap: Cedes 18-49 viewers with holiday week of reruns
• Web's a big draw for believers and curious
  New media: Religion bigger than auctions, stocks and dating
• Targeting ads on interactive TV
  Technology: Different creative geared to unique demographics

News Shorts
College pigskin sweep for ABC
'24' and 'Alias' nominated for Golden Globes
NBC plans 25th anniversary 'Roots' special
Hey, hey, hey: It's 'Fat Albert' again on UPN
'Frasier's' Leeves reups for three more years
Judge stops EchoStar from dropping ABC Family

Web Shorts
100,000 dot.com workers lost jobs last year
Whither '02? Astrology and religion sites are hot.
AOL blocks admissions emails from Harvard
Yahoo, not Monster, will buy HotJobs.com
MediaPort will establish online ad marketplace

People

Thursday, January 3, 2002

• Tit for tat, Fox steals CNN's Van Susteren
  Television: Can't we all just get along? Not in cable news.
• Who woulda thunk? UPN pulls it off.
  Television: Never mind the mishmash lineup, ratings are up
• When a pop-under counts as a visit
  New media: Jupiter rule change affects ranking for X10 site
• Record labels' tepid Napster response
  New media: Pressplay and MusicNet cost $s and offer less
• We're better off than we think we are
  Commentary: Some real good has come from this ad slowdown

Web Shorts
NY Times beefing up its online job section
Feds put lid on faux anthrax cure-all claims
Online holiday shoppers were procrastinators
Dirty-minded Charlotte Church fan site shuttered
Number of web sites slips slightly

People

Friday, January 4, 2002

• Eisner: It hurts, it hurts real bad
  ABC parent's chief opens up in pitch to investors
• Most entertaining 2001 for cable
  Ratings recap: News led but real winners were Lifetime and TBS
• '80s radio, so hot, begins to wrinkle
  Latest vogue format settling into early middle age 
• Rescue mission for troubled shows
  Television: SaveThatShow.com, where fans vote their hearts
• Online city guides see a holiday boost
  New media: DigitalCity climbs into ranks of top web domains

Web Shorts
AOL stealthily raises ‘BYOA’ admission fee
EUniverse network snaps up marketer L90
MarketWatch.com to feature TheStreet.com news
AOL mends Instant Messenger security hole
Heavy metal band Anthrax offers disease info

Tom Rutledge appointed president of the New York metropolitan area for Cablevision
Keith Olbermann to anchor 'Speaking of Sports' and 'Speaking of Everything' for ABC Radio
David Kenin tapped to run programming for the Hallmark Channel
Michael Bloom to executive producer and showrunner for VH1’s upcoming late-night talk show
Jason Biggs to guest star on the WB's 'Off Centre' on Jan. 20

Monday, January 7, 2002

• A flusher CBS, thanks to Thursdays
  Television: 'Survivor'-'CSI' duo skims monied set from NBC
• Disney loads up the bases
  Sports TV: Leveraging ABC and ESPN to corner sports TV
• Parsons: Ah, allow me to be candid...
  Expect some sour #s in today's chat with investors
• Holidays are really about cyber-socializing
  New media: E-shopping second to exchanging best wishes
• Getting a lift out of the Olympics
  Out of home: Put your client on display at nearby ski resorts

Web Shorts
Pakistan: India stopped Kashmir net access
Windows XP problematic for AOL cable service
HGTV.com draws Rose Parade-related traffic
Eisner: Disney’s net side will turn profit in 2002
EBay misses $ goal for Sept. 11 victim fund

Bill Holland named CEO of Bates Southwest
Mark Flinn named VP and Northeast regional sales director for BusinessWeek; Paul Maraviglia to international advertising director
Prominent ad executive Thomas Parker Jones dead at the age of 59
Mark Holdreith appointed retail group president of the marketing/media and retail division at VNU Business Publications USA
Laurie Goldberg upped to SVP of public relations for the Cartoon Network
Erich Linker appointed SVP of national sales at Newspapers First
Dan Aykroyd to host 'Dan Aykroyd’s Out There' for the Sci Fi Channel

Wednesday, January 9, 2002

• Expect a strong finale for 'Survivor'
  Television: Viewer #s will be off but CBS show still has gas
• Bowl games give ABC a sip of victory
  Ratings recap: But just a sip and no relief in a parched season
• A sad adieu to SF's ad club
  Feature: Just shy of 100 years, victim of the hard economy
• The new hot web thing: Photo sites
  New media: Services that cater to the digital camera crowd
• Parsons displays his wide embrace
  Wraps arms around AOL team, amid the bad #s

Web Shorts
DoubleClick abandons ad-profiling service
DaimlerChrysler ruffled over gay site name
No dot.coms filed for IPOs in 2001
MSN will use Overture paid listings
17-year-old racked up $1 million in web scam

Jon Chalon joins Spin magazine as publisher
Jack Wakshlag to chief research officer at Turner Broadcasting
John Failla to group president of performance, travel, entertainment, and jewelry for VNU Expositions
Kathryn Herrick to account manager for the Midwest region at Sports Illustrated Women
Bill Moyers named anchor and executive editor for public television's 'Now with Bill Moyers'
Alan Keyes to host 'Alan Keyes Is Making Sense' for MSNBC

Thursday, January 10, 2002

• Dip in overall TV viewing in fourth quarter
  Television: But cable saw a 10% gain, led by news networks
• Gruner + Jahr closing HomeStyle
  Magazines: Tumble in ad pages, despite a major redesign
• TNT 'Mummy' spree pulls in big numbers
  Cable ratings recap: Weekend movie marathon wins key demos
• Trend spotter for Generations X and Y
  Interview: Jane Buckingham on what they are really about
• Improving the look of video streaming
  Technology: New software promises to deliver a better picture

Web Shorts
Excite hits a bump under new ownership
New virus types can infect Flash files
Internet casino being named for Sammy Davis Jr.
Revived Media Grok wants subscription money

People

Friday, January 11, 2002

• 2001 magazine ad page drop: 11.7%
  Year's big loser was Red Herring, down 64.5%
• Yes, NBC is No. 1, but hardly worry-free
  Television: At midseason facing some serious schedule gaps
• Why the big stink over college bowls
  Sports TV: Arcane system for picking which teams will play
• Morphing Speedvision for NASCAR fans
  Sports TV:Fox revamps race channel to air trackside stories
• Government sites are quite the thing
  New media: Over half of wired adults visit or transact business

Web Shorts
Forrester will lay off 22 percent of its staff
Dot.com reinvents itself as stripper emporium
Napster launches beta version of indie artists
Pop singer Aguilera to online pornsters: I'll sue
Look out, Dell: MTV launches line of PCs

John Weiser to EVP at Columbia TriStar Domestic Television
Carl Dickens chosen as SVP for CMR’s Media Group
Alan Cohen to president of domestic theatrical marketing for Twentieth Century Fox
Jane Grenier promoted to associate publisher of creative services at Gourmet magazine
Michael Teicher to EVP of media sales at Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution; Paul Montoya to SVP of business development and media sales
Stephanie Leifer takes over for Julie Glucksman as ABC's vice president of comedy development
David E. Easterly steps down from vice chairman role at Cox Enterprises Inc.
Dennis Hopper joins the cast of Fox's '24'
Alan Ball signs a new contract with HBO to continue executive producing 'Six Feet Under'

Monday, January 14, 2002

• Web is the TV of the workplace
  New media: Workers' No. 1 medium, ahead of radio and print
• At midseason, CBS stands poised
  Television: Strategy of stealing yet more younger viewers
• Will DoubleClick quit selling web ads?
  New media: That's the thinking, so it can focus on serving biz
• A glimmer of light for investor titles
  Interview: Money's Kathy Kayse on the coming ad recovery
• Bagging fans at the main event
  Out of home: Put your client on seats at games and concerts

Web Shorts
TheStreet.com will sell new fee-based reports
EBay and Yahoo: We’re not merging Japan operations
Hearst is restructuring its internet operations
Hackers may have hit DrudgeReport.com
Unofficial AA owners win right to keep domain name

Pamela Wisne resigns as president of David E. Kelley Prods.
Keith Olbermann joins CNN as a contributor to 'NewsNight with Aaron Brown'
Chris Tucker to serve as host of the NAACP Image Awards
Christina Ricci to guest star on five episodes of Fox’s 'Ally McBeal'

Tuesday, January 15, 2002

• Initiative's Schultz axed over mouse-dropping
  Irked Disney taking its media business to Starcom
• Like, there's a glut of teen mags
  Magazines: As some bop might others drop? Who will falter?
• In radio, it's still Country by a mile
  Format report: Except in the South, oddly, where urban is gaining
• 'Imagine That': Let's not.
  Television review: Funny man in a sitcom that comes out of a box
• Post-Xmas rush to diet web sites
  New media: Top four see 64% traffic jump. It must be January.
• In media? Tell us a bit about yourself.
  Kindly click here to take our reader survey

Web Shorts
EBay auctions off 'Survivor' props for AIDS charity
‘Dot.name’ internet suffixes go live today
Internet access device sales climb
Holiday flicks draw visitors to ticket-sales sites
St. Pete Weekly will run Ironminds

Steven P. Murphy upped to president and CEO of Rodale Inc.
Linda Sepp promoted to publisher of Fast Company
John Miller named co-anchor of ABC’s '20/20'
Richard Hatem to write and co-executive produce the pilot for ABC's 'Miracles'
Paul Rostkowski to VP for Eastern Region sales for Interep Interactive; Joshua Simkin England to VP of operations; Sandie Milberg to VP of marketing

• Mercy, it's a killer of a midseason
  Television: Few new shows look like they'll dodge the big ax
• Slow 2002 recovery for web ad spending
  New media: Expect lift as economy revives from very grim '01
• Backwoods Home, for a simpler life
  Magazines: Much simpler. A life of liberty free of government.
• Fading promise of the SF Chronicle
  Newspapers: Hearst vowed to make it great. It isn't happening.
• Coming, plug and play for digital cable
  Technology: New standards to ensure sets work on all systems
• In media? Tell us a bit about yourself.
  Kindly click here to take our reader survey

Web Shorts
New virus posing as a Microsoft software update
DoubleClick beats fourth-quarter expectations
MSN: We're now up to 7.7 million users
Lycos and Fox team up for joint promotions
Jailbirds of a feather click together at new site

Marla Newborn upped to VP of program operation at USA Network
Mary Hall promoted to SVP of research at the WB
Jon Stewart to host CBS's Grammy Awards for the second consecutive year
Richard Lewis to join the cast of the WB's '7th Heaven' for five episodes starting this February
Ted Koppel to receive the chairman's award at next week's annual program conference of the National Association of Television Program Executives
Daniel Baldwin to star in the pilot for the WB’s 'Aces'

Thursday, January 17, 2002

• Longer, slower road for Azteca America
  Television: Out-foxed by rivals, it must build market by market
• Hey, here's a cool magazine
  ReadyMade, do-it-yourself guide for creating a life
• Surprising health of big cable networks
  Ratings recap: Delivering  #s and key demos, even with erosion
• New standards for web advertising
  New media: IAB defines page impressions, clicks, visits, etc. 
• Uh-oh Yahoo and its Cigna deal
  Commentary: Disaster lurks in scheme to build customer portals
• Who are you? Tell us a bit about yourself.
  Kindly click here to take our reader survey

Web Shorts
AOL battles fraudulent InstaKiss sites
Burger King starts internet bucks program
Free side of search engine NorthernLight goes dark
WB email blitz stirs confusion with faux summons
Colleges put the Nuremberg Files online

People

Friday, January 18, 2002

• Expect big ad $s for '02 elections
  Television: Major races and mucho contested seats to fill
• Rebuilding of ABC is some ways off
  Television: Scratch this midseason, with so much work to do
• The money of Sports radio
  Research: Audience largely of affluent, big-spending males 
• Controversy, where Maxim meets ESPN
  Magazines: Can two ex-NFLers succeed in this crowded field?
• Web's cool but not the coolest
  New media: Users still rely on traditional media for much info

Web Shorts
Internet traffic triples every year
British Airways takeover ads on NYTimes.com
New 'Wallace & Gromit' toons will be released online
Homestore.com workers sacked over accounting
Enron employees take to eBay

People

Tuesday, January 22, 2002

• What really killed Talk magazine
  Lots of things but timing played a big role
• A poem: Talk Talked
  Tim McHale on the occasion of Talk mag's announced demise
• F in Fox stands for fix-it. Can it?
  Television: Down 9% at midseason and hoping for new hits
• NBC ratings skid in San Francisco
  Television: Good-bye KRON, hello KNTV, good-bye viewers
• Put your client on the train platform
  Out of home: Commuters make great targets going to and fro
• 'Life Moments,' one hope for syndication
  Television: Show eschews tired formulas for feel of cable

News Shorts
'Fear Factor' wins for NBC
'Sex' and 'Six' win top honors at Golden Globes
On second thought, NBC scraps 'Imagine That'
Terrorist trial won't air, rules judge
Showtime readies two new series for summer
Us picks 'Sexiest Athletes' on ESPN

Web Shorts
Enron axed employees who griped online
NetRatings and Jupiter carry on with lawsuit
Women outpacing men in getting wired
Would-be shoe bomber left email footprints
EBay raises auction fees

Katherine Graham, Charles D. Peebler Jr., Hal Riney and John Smale elected to Advertising Hall of Fame
Wendy Taylor promoted to editor in chief of Ziff Davis Smart Business
Kathy Riess named financial director at Allure magazine
John Weiser named EVP of Columbia TriStar Domestic Television
Carla Pennington chosen as executive producer of upcoming talk show with Dr. Phil McGraw on Paramount Domestic TV
Maura Dunbar joins Hallmark Channel as SVP of original programming and development
Stuart Arnold leaves position as managing director of The Americas for the Financial Times

Wednesday, January 23, 2002

• CMR: Expect a slow ad spending recovery
  Media economy: Sees 1.5% rise for 2002, starting in third quarter
• What's the next hot thing in magazines?
  Think regional and ethnic, also aging baby boomers
• Pro soccer's bold bid for attention
  Sports TV: Swaps World Cup rights for ABC/ESPN airtime
• New web players emerge over holidays
  New media: Spiritual sites, as well as those for gifts and cards
• An online classroom for placing spot buys
  Technology: Teaching folks how to use new electronic systems

Web Shorts
Netscape sues Microsoft, seeking antitrust damages
Yahoo introduces pay-for-search service
Enlisting idle computers in search for ’thrax cure
Pope: The internet rules, but it needs more rules
St. Louis portal chops staff as head resigns

People

Thursday, January 24, 2002

• NBC by a mile, ABC and CBS slipping
  Ratings recap: Eases on ahead with end of 'Survivor' and 'MNF'
• Cheap Super Bowl spots. Such a deal.
  Sports TV: Sales are slow for Fox, but the value is there
• Here at last, the anti-Maxim
  Magazines: Keep your beer and boobs! Adam, for nice guys.
• 'That '80s Show,' déjà vu all over again
  Television review: A decade to remember, a sitcom easy to forget
• Traffic flurries for Winter Olympics site
  New media: Get tickets, buy your trinkets, meet the athletes

Web Shorts
Yahoo and Compaq hit the rails with onboard service
Los Angeles suburb banning new net cafes
Online auction fraud among top FTC complaints
Is Hell freezing over? Amazon turns first profit.
Dutch prince's online chat hampered by hackers

Susan C. Hunyor named account manager at BusinessWeek
Jonathan Hendriksen named vice president of sales and operations for ValueClick International
Andrea Rosengarten promoted to editor/managing editor of Jane
Paul E. Steiger and Katharine Graham to receive National Press Foundation awards

Friday, January 25, 2002

• Among men's titles, survival of the fattest
  Magazine: And youngest. But will we see one fail in 2002?
• Thank you, now that we have met
  Research: Results of a Media Life survey of its readers
• Planet, for the globally minded
  Magazine for readers whose lifestyle is the world
• Coming of age of web advertising
  Interview: Leslie Laredo on the changes she sees coming
• 'Rock' and 'Waterboy' sweep for USA cable
  Cable recap: Flix win week in 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 demos

News Shorts
NBC rolls over competitors
Rumor: Fox wants Conan for its own late show
WSJ terrorism reporter missing in Pakistan
New FTC plan limits unwanted phone pitches
Court TV won't fight TV ban on Moussaoui trial
UPN benches 'Roswell' in March 

People

Monday, January 28, 2002

• Better way to gauge reader involvement
  Magazines: New index to quantify connectedness with a title
• Changing perceptions of black consumers
  Research: Arbitron study tracks demographic's affluence
• A trove of trivia for fans of Tolkien
  Things we like: 'Rings' site co-sponsored by Times and New Line
• Women's soccer gets a time break
  Sports TV: New TV deal with PAX and set Saturday schedule
• Your client where women play basketball
  Out of home: Signage in the arenas that host WNBA games

Web Shorts
FindWhat fights Overture over search technology
Grandson fined for citing Nazi grandfather online
Golden Globes pump up EOnline.com traffic
UK group: Stay off the web for a day
Yes, even email death threats are illegal

Garry Hart upped to president of Paramount Television Production; Joel Berman named president of Paramount Worldwide Television Distribution
Brian Graden promoted to newly created position of president of entertainment at MTV
Steve MacDonald promoted to SVP and general sales manager at Twentieth Television
Louis Cona named VP and publisher of Condé Nast's Vanity Fair
Alexandra Golinkin promoted to VP and publisher of Lucky
Brenda Saget upped to VP and publisher of House & Garden

Tuesday, January 29, 2002

• Mega-shuffle of Condé Nast bigs
  Magazines: Up for Beckman, out for Hunsinger. And Ron G.?
• The real score on sports radio
  Research: It's anyone's guess. Buyers: Bruskin #s sky high.
• In syndication, it's tried and true
  Television: Bets on safe plays like 'Dr. Phil' and 'Millionaire'
• Better way to gauge reader involvement: Part II
  Magazines: What values to weigh for connectedness
• Traffic surge for book sites and clubs
  New Media: Post-holiday rectitude? We can only guess.

Web Shorts
Study: Congressional web sites are crummy
SEC posts fake site to advise against fraud
Vocal armchair sports fans find an outlet
Worm by Russian teen deceives with party message
Prof battles La Guardia Community College online

Kelly Smith Tunney and Tom Brettingen appointed VPs at The Associated Press
Amy Introcaso-Davis named VP of production and development at Bravo Networks
Charles McKeown named publisher of Editor and Publisher

Wednesday, January 30, 2002

• For Fox, some pre-Olympic glory
  Television: Original shows up it to No 1. in 18-49s--for a spell
• Fox News and CNN, two peas in a pod
  Cable: Study finds, rhetoric aside, war news reporting similar
• Still more on reader involvement
  Magazines: Print folks debate the practicality of an index
• Ratings don't tell the full cable story
  Research: Beta's findings on how networks rate with viewers
• Rich media's appeal among big shoppers
  New media: Study finds them effective in driving online sales

Web Shorts
Google: We’re not running pop-ups, ever
TheStreet.com partners with Yahoo Finance
New WSJ.com design is glitch-plagued
New Line strikes online ‘Goldmember’ references
After 4Q loss, layoffs loom for Citysearch

Evan Messinger named SVP of sales development and marketing at Univision Communications
Danielle Gelber named VP of original programming at Showtime Networks
Aaron Ashe appointed political sales manager at National Cable Communications
Genevieve Fernandez and Angel Linares named deputy managing editors at People en Español
Burt Reynolds to guest star on upcoming episode of 'The X-Files'

Thursday, January 31, 2002

• Don't bet it all on a Rams rout
  Super Bowl: Boon for buyers with 2nd-half spots if Patriots score
• Why some hit shows survive syndication
  Television: Fourth fend off decline, and a new study tells why
• Broadband kids, the new hot demo
  New media: They surf more, they buy more, they spend more
• 'Blue Planet' less than red hot
  Cable recap: Discovery sea saga falls short of 'Dinosaur' pull
• Mel and Sumner in chilly embrace
  Feuding Viacom duo: Okay, we'll try to get along

Web Shorts
‘Dot.coop’ domain registrations commence
Bush puts kid version of speech online
Salon: Maybe some day we’ll do a print thing
WeatherBug.com launches pick-your-own ads
IVillage toys with subscription fees

People

Friday, February 1, 2002

• Going into sweeps, ABC's got big hurts
  Television: In fourth place and facing an even deeper slide
• Telemarketer crackdown could be an ad biz boon
  Media economy: Feds looking to build free do-not-call registry
• Skinny on who really buys online
  New media: Spenders are not young-uns but 35-54 year olds 
• Salon makes a go of premium service
  New media: Claims 35,000 paying subscribers at $30 a head

Web Shorts
SuperBowl.com traffic up in advance of game
Judge: Hyperlinks not valid for domain name disputes
Sotheby’s migrates online services to eBay
FTC and Truste get deputized as spaminators
Money site Motley Fool to charge for boards

Greg Mitchell promoted to editor of Editor & Publisher
Brian Moran appointed editor of Mediaweek
Michael Keaton to guest star on 'Frasier'

Monday, February 4, 2002

• Super Super Super Bowl
  Sports TV: And hats off to advertisers who bought 2nd half
• Readers' tastes are lightening up
  Magazines: Interests return to sports and celebs post-Sept. 11
• ABC's all a-lather in the afternoons
  Television: 'Port Charles's' novella style pulls in the young
• Tracking channels of the giant portals
  New media: JMM compares with stand-alone sites for traffic
• Putting your client where seniors meet
  Out of home: Advertising at recreation centers for the elderly

Web Shorts
World Economic Forum web site forced offline
Priceline and eBay in travel-selling deal
British ISP gets hacked to death
KaZaA snubs court order to halt music downloads
More than half of Americans are online

Brian Tierney to become founder and chairman at Tierney Communications; Scott Franks promoted to CEO
Luke Hayman named creative director of Travel + Leisure magazine
Francis Coombs promoted to managing editor of the Washington Times

Tuesday, February 5, 2002

• Buyers: NBC will make its Olympic #s
  Sports TV: Viewership should top 1998 Nagano winter games
• Yes, a great Super Bowl but . . .
  Sports TV: Thrilla game had 4th smallest audience in decade
• A Mr. Fix-it for Sports Illustrated
  Magazines: Us's Terry McDonell hires on as managing editor
• Hello, email, and soon good-bye
  New media: Instant messaging becoming way to communicate
• Scoop! Consumers do like ITV gizmos.
  Technology: Study finds strong response after demonstration

Web Shorts
No surprise here, tax sites are hoppin’
Kids' new favorite toy: the web
Playboy Playmate wins domain-name case
Dial-up connections are getting slower
Russian monks busted for spamming

Ron Arnold named SVP and group creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi
Peter King Hunsinger to become president of Condé Nast's new bridal division
Jim Beall and Dave Bird named marketing managers at National Cable Communications
Jana Bennett named to top post at BBC Television
Gene DeWitt appointed president of The Syndicated Network Television Association
Kevin Lavalla joins Communications Equity Associates LLC

Wednesday, February 6, 2002

• Bowl gives Fox nifty sweeps boost
  Ratings recap: No. 2 for February and likely for rest of the season
• Spin editor quitting to launch a new title
  Magazines: Alan Light mum on what sort of music it will cover
• Up from the dead for quirky Bust
  Magazines: Founders reviving women's title post-Razorfish
• Heeb, alas, a fine idea
  Review: But as a magazine it lacks both voice and identity
• Bowl was a big web attraction too
  New media: Traffic rose 'til kickoff and then again during game

Web Shorts
Search engines sued over paid search placement
Weekly World News: Don’t log on, buy our rag
Earthlink offering ‘Star Trek’ ISP service
Texas rock stations in domain-name war
EBay CEO gives Princeton $30M for swank dorm

Erin Lempriere and Jacelyn Swanson promoted to director of current series programs at NBC
Evan Sternschein named SVP of national advertising sales for Discovery Networks
Arthel Neville tapped as host of CNN's 'TalkBack Live'
Its' official: Galotti to VP and publisher of GQ
Ewald Walgenbach named to the newly created position of COO for Bertelsmann AG

Thursday, February 7, 2002

• Big Tobacco kicking its magazine habit
  Ad economy: Philip Morris yanks $s from 80 titles, in big retreat
• Boston stink bomb over people meter
  Television: TV stations to Nielsen: Count us out of the count
• Growing respect for online news
  New media: Americans rely on web for more and more info
• Fox News widens its lead over CNN
  Cable recap: 1.2M average primetime viewers versus 836,000
• wsj.com steps in it, design-wise
  Commentary: New look lacks the class of paper's print version

Web Shorts
Faux eBay email socks the gullible
Vivendi launches online video business
Dot.com deaths slowed down last month
EUniverse’s L90 acquisition will be delayed
Google dabbles in paid search services

People

Friday, February 8, 2002

• New year but old woes for magazines
  Magazines: Ad pages are down nearly 16% from last January
• Boffo launch for TeleFutura
  Television: Young-skewing Univision net pulling new viewers
• NBC's bid to woo young to Olympics
  Sports TV: Expect edgier coverage and more speed sports
• The broad ambitions of Taste
  Magazines: Williams-Sonoma food title aspires to be a big player
• Tough guidelines for email marketers
  New media: DMA rules to separate good guys from spamsters

Web Shorts
NPR won’t post heated Simmons-Gross talk
FuckedCompany.com sells e-commerce tools
Rock band launches computer game on web site
ABC News cuts off Yahoo’s video
Emails soothed people after Sept. 11

Will J. Wright appointed executive producer of BET Nightly News
Joyce Parente named marketing director of National Geographic Adventure magazine
Sam Paisley named president of ValueClick Media
Paul Beck appointed VP of sales at Bigfoot Interactive; John Mathew to VP of operations
Steve Soldano resigns as president and COO of Publicis and Cordiant Communications' Optimedia U.S.
Nancy Travis to guest star on CBS's 'Becker'

Monday February 11, 2002

• Come the upfront, think flat
  Media economy: Least for now. Jitters keep expectations in limbo.
• 'First Monday,' a Friday stinker
  TV review: CBS copycats 'West Wing,' save for the substance
• Relix, for lovers of jam music
  Magazines: You know the Dead. Heard of the Disco Biscuits?
• Where else fans surfed on Bowl day
  New media: You guessed it: Gambling and astrology web sites
• Putting your client in building lobbies
  Out of home: News kiosks with ad messages to big-$ workers

News Shorts
NBC's strong Sunday night
BizWeek and USA Today team up
'Felicity' will conclude with commencement
A new way to assess the cost of talking heads
PVR opponents go for the kill in court

People

Tuesday, February 12, 2002

• Behind Olympics' very hot numbers
  Sports TV: NBC's youth push may be paying off, and big-time
• Super Bowl's wandering eyes
  Sports TV: Blame it on the partying. Viewers are less tuned in.
• Sunset, with a view of the West
  Magazines: Lifestyle title for folks who like their spaces open
• 20-somethings fleeing papers for the web
  Newspapers: Mucho big headache, with no solutions in sight
• Hi-def TV takes off at last, no joke
  Technology: Set prices falling and more cable ops offer service

Web Shorts
LATimes.com ranked best newspaper site
Ooooops, CNN forgets to pay German site fee
Yahoo gives FTD ad room to bloom
Longtime free site Netsurfer starts charging
Economy.com thrives amid recession

People

Wednesday, February 13, 2002

• Fox's still strong, even as Olympics soar
  Ratings recap: Holding onto sweeps lead, thanks to Super Bowl
• For next season, the tried and true
  Television: Expect little risk-taking on the part of the networks
• Sports predictions worth pondering
  Sports TV: Panel of gurus on what 2002 will likely bring
• A younger voice for Working Mother
  Magazines: A new editor freshens up title for moms who work
• Traffic to Olympic sites is building
  New media: Hot places to go for backgrounders on athletes

Web Shorts
MSN signs up Overture search technology
NPR’s Gross swamped with KISS email
Airlines hanker for high-speed in-flight net access
‘Dot.us’ domains hitting market soon
IVillage.com snaps up Promotions.com

Jerry Roberts exits as VP and managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Price named president of National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Marjorie Scardino to be given the title of Dame
Marty Toole promoted to national team sales manager at National Cable Communications; Pat Baughman and Chad Hoker to account executives
Ira Rubenstein named SVP of Sony Pictures Integrated Network
Brendan Fraser to guest star on NBC's 'Scrubs'

Thursday, February 14, 2002

• Olympics a modest ad $ boon for NBC
  CMR: Will pull $700M, up nearly 12% from 1998 games
• Michael Jordan magazine goes pssst
  Magazines: From inspirational lifestyle title to Nike catalogue
• Cable feels little of Olympics' bite
  Cable recap: Overall household primetime viewership is up 5%
• Sports predictions worth pondering: Part II
  Sports TV: Panel of gurus musing on what 2002 will bring
• Web's emerging role as a fat farm
  New media: Traffic surge in January to dieting and health sites

Web Shorts
Enron’s old networks are spewing spam
Comcast: We're mending our Big Brother ways
Hey Alanis, you have a radio station
‘X-Files’ fans can insert their names in credits
Stink over charitable use of idle computers

People

Friday, February 15, 2002

• Dire forecast for print's future
  U.K. study: New technologies already eating away
• TV ad clutter worsens, and buyers grouse
  Television: 'It’s diminishing the value of television advertising.'
• Behind NBC's Olympic push for 'Ellie'
  Buyers: No guarantee of success for new Louis-Dreyfus sitcom
• Looking for gold in Salt Lake City
  Magazines: SI Women hopes to capitalize on women fans
• Study: Less idle web surfing these days
  New media: Users know where they want to go and go there

Web Shorts
Amazon.com introduces wedding registry
Marriage proposed and accepted on Slashdot
Free online cards trump fee-based greetings
NextCard shutdown squeezes web sites
Freedom in Afghanistan brings-what else-porno!

Geoffrey Dodge appointed VP, advertising director and associate publisher for BusinessWeek
Melinda McLaughlin promoted to VP of research and sales strategy at A&E Television Networks
Ken Kaess and James R. Heekin nominated to the board of the American Association of Advertising Agencies
Matthew Perry to guest star on Fox's 'Ally McBeal'

Tuesday, February 19, 2002

• Newsstand rebound for many magazines
  Not just newsweeklies, either. Real Simple +25%.
• Ado over Olympic viewer tallies
  Sports TV: Xing national ads gooses NBC's #s. Buyers balk.
• Satellite radio gets Sirius, at last
  Better late than never. But will folks pay to listen?
• Web-wise, week of snow and roses
  New media: Last-second V Day shopping by Olympics viewers
• Wrapping malls with your message
  Out of home: See-through vinyl for arenas and stadiums as well

News Shorts
Olympics slip on Monday
Who will take up the pencil at People?
Daytona 500 sets ratings record for NBC
Britney Spears vamps it up on 'Sex and the City'
'Fear Factor' contestant chokes on cow's eye

Web Shorts
Online Holocaust memorial opens virtual doors
Salvation Army to pin-up Sarah Jane: Oh, stop
Texas GOP: Don’t mock us as Enron stooges
Pair-skating dustup boosts Olympic web traffic
RealNetworks adds NASCAR to RealOne slate

People

Howard K. Smith dead at age 87
Brad Westermann promoted to SVP of national advertising sales at A&E Television Networks
Richard Cook promoted to chairman of Walt Disney Studios
Richard Tunkel named manager of new business development for TV, cable and multimedia services at Arbitron
Pat Wechsler appointed editor in chief of Treasury & Risk Management magazine
Richard J.V. Johnson to retire as chairman of the Houston Chronicle
Narda Zacchino named assistant executive editor of the San Francisco Chronicle; Kenn Altine to associate managing editor
Allison Janney to guest star on 'Frasier'

Wednesday, February 20, 2002

• Court whammies TV cross-owner caps
  Television: Major win for media congloms. Let buying begin.
• Up next: Newspaper cross-owner cap
  FCC rule bans owning paper and TV stations in a market
• Nielsen delays national sample weighting
  Television: Puts off a full year after networks question data
• Pondering a cable future for curling
  Sports TV: Can Olympics' hot niche sports hold their fans?
• A hot web thing: Online training
  New media: Users flock to sites offering career advancement

News Shorts
Kwan delivers NBC a big Olympic bump
Piercing pop quiz proves costly for 'Survivor'
Rosie's 'I'm gay' moment on 'Primetime Thursday'
More info on the New York Sun
Study: Watching TV is addictive, for real

Web Shorts
FTC axes Jupiter MM NetRatings merger
Love beats sports as Lycos search term
Survey reveals public anxiety over privacy
Popcorn maker blasted for breaching kid privacy
Coffers emptying, Garageband.com shuts down

People

R.W. Apple named associate editor of The New York Times
Sid Bedingfield promoted to newly created position of executive editor of CNN News Group; Teya Ryan to EVP and GM
Rob Pellizzi upped to SVP of consumer, promotional and advertising sales marketing for TV Land and Nick at Nite
Nick Garramone promoted to VP of eBusiness at National Cable Communications
Steve Rosenberg to head a combined syndication studio at Vivendi Universal
Crystal Holmes appointed EVP of sales at Monster
Michael John D'Alessio named director of business development and strategy at Interference Inc.

Thursday, February 21, 2002

• New top editor for People magazine
  InStyle's Martha Nelson replacing Carol Wallace
• NBC's big Olympic win: 18- to 24-year-olds
  Ratings recap: Demographic up 36 percent over Nagano games
• And now, television's 'worst' advertisers
  Clean-TV group cites biggest sponsors of raunchy shows
• Yes, hope for reality TV after all
  TV review: Cable's 'It Factor' and 'Greenlight' revive the genre
• The mainstreaming of online casinos
  New media: Aggressive ad push pulls in millions of gamblers

News Shorts
U.S. medal wins another boost for NBC
A&E cancels much-praised '100 Centre Street'
Goldman denies plans to create magazine unit
Executive shakeup at Infinity Broadcasting
Computer code for good and evil on '24'?

Web Shorts
AltaVista dumps free email services
MSN: Our traffic’s growing faster than yours
Consumers spent $10 billion online in 4Q
For sale on eBay: Advice from sellers
Taiwanese film rental site is shut down

People

Carl Portale retiring from Hachette as SVP and Elle Group publishing director
Gina Garraubo joins Oxygen as EVP of advertising sales and marketing
WSJ's Alan Murray named Washington bureau chief of CNBC's business news channel
Tom McGrath to president of Viacom Entertainment Group's Paramount Enterprises
Alex Coletti named MTV2 executive in charge of programming and production
Jason Young appointed SVP and GM of Ziff Davis Internet

Friday February 22, 2002

• Still a tough job market for media folks
  Recruiters look to second half for hiring to pick up
• Way big plans for Span-lang titles
  Magazines: Major titles intensify drives to build readership
• Cable holds up well against Olympics
  Cable recap: And for a second week yet. Dogs and decorating.
• There's a bright side to Skategate
  Sports TV: All the melodrama and bad press may help skating
• Rising clout of travel sites
  New media: Expedia and Travelocity, with Orbitz coming up fast

News Shorts
Hughes' gold gives NBC its second-highest night
Officials: Video shows WSJ's Pearl is dead
'Amazing Race 2' gets second airing on UPN
Condit's wife hits Nat'l Enquirer with libel suit
ABC plans reality series on anti-terror troops

Web Shorts
Web surfers land at travel sites in droves
For a limited time, MGM OKs movie downloads
Yahoo by Phone now voice-activated
Windows Media Player is watching you
Royalty system set for online tunes

People

Punch Sulzberger retires from The New York Times board
Peter Stothard resigns as editor of London's The Times
Former Boston Globe publisher William Davis Taylor dies at age 93
Jeff Lehman appointed SVP of sales and chief revenue officer at AltaVista
Steven Gross named U.S. VP of marketing at Terra Lycos
Mary Silverman upped to SVP of programming at Court TV
Jane Fritsch named assistant bureau chief of The Associated Press in Chicago

Monday, February 25, 2002

• Expect ad spending to lag recovery
  The good news: The recession is about at an end
• Infinity to Arbitron: A better deal, or else
  Radio: Nose-to-nose contract tiff. Will it walk? Dare it?
• Remembering Danny Pearl
  Newspapers: Fine man and a writer known for his quirky stories
• April 15's closer than you think
  New media: Beginnings of a traffic surge to tax prep web sites
• Hang your client from a RR trestle
  Out of home: Or better, his message, to reach driver eyeballs

• All the big #s for NBC's Olympics
  Sports TV: ratings up 18% over Nagano, with 18-34s rising 28%
• Coming, Binn's Los Angeles Confidential
  Magazines: Lifestyle title from Hamptons publisher, sans sin
• Syndie belly-flops into sweeps pool
  Television: Few old favorites jelly-float, with the rest sinking
• BoyCrazy!, for teenage girls
  Things we like: Where the advice comes from just the cutest boys
• Expect little pluck from hockey's puck
  Sports TV: It's unlikely Olympic gold will boost NHL viewing

News Shorts
CBS takes back Monday night
'West Wing's' Sorkin: The media drool for Bush
Report: Disney wooing Costas from NBC
Holdout 'Malcolm' mom forces shutdown
'Rosie O'Donnell' boob-flashing mystery solved

Web Shorts
CNN big says online news fees are inevitable
ElleGirl.com offers instant messaging for teens
The Shat is back, shilling for Priceline
Virgin shutters its money-losing portal
Lycos will charge for prominent search results

People

Carol A. Smith named SVP and Elle Group publishing director at Hachette Filipacchi
Kate Rodler named Northwest regional advertising manager for Fast Company
Bela Bajaria promoted to SVP of movies and miniseries at CBS
Lachlan Murdoch to head up TV operations at Fox TV
David Goldhill named COO of USA Entertainment
Jasmine Alexander appointed SVP of sales planning and analysis at Ziff Davis Media
Bari Goldsmith joins Deutsch as associate director

Wednesday, February 27, 2002

• Wenner names Fuller to edit Us Weekly
  Magazines: Ex-Glamour pencil's task: Push checkout sales
• Fox and ABC up in 2nd Olympic week
  Recap: Numbers improve, even as NBC seals sweeps win
• 'Ellie' could break the Seinfeld curse
  TV review: This show works. Credit craft, talent and timing.
• Intriguing promise of the surround session
  New media: Impressive early data for one-ad-per-user tactic
• Post 9/11 nesting may aid broadband
  Technology: Stay-at-homes inclined to upgrade systems

News Shorts
Good start for NBC's 'Ellie'
NBC Sports benches Williams, pending trial
Conan signs on for four more years at 'Late Night'
'The Job' repeats headed to Comedy Central
A portent of doom for 'Roswell'?
 

Web Shorts
AOL sued for thrusting goods upon users
Original 'Canterbury Tales' published online
Hate groups using computer games to recruit
Poll: The web helps the feds fight crime
South Korean skater drawing hordes to web sites

People

Ralph Erardy named SVP and group publisher of Women's Wear Daily; Colleen Wyse to associate publisher of Jane magazine
Thomas P. Losee Jr. dies at age 62
Rick Kemp appointed EVP and executive creative director of J. Walter Thompson, Chicago
Karla Eyerly promoted to manager for advertiser marketing services at Arbitron; Julie Ellis named manager for advertiser agency services
Patrick Owens dies at age 72

Thursday, February 28, 2002

• Ethnics joining flight to cable
  Research: Study finds Black and Hispanic viewing grows apace
• Betting on the fate of 'Survivor: Marquesas'
  Television: It debuts tonight but success is far from assured
• Bonnie Fuller on the voice of Us
  Interview: I'll tweak but the magazine is on course
• Cable finishes out Olympics ahead
  Ratings recap: Primetime viewership was up 5.2% in final week
• Fight over role of new media agencies
  Report worries over efforts to cut from the process

News Shorts
Grammys give CBS a narrow win
Ex-Clinton advisers join rejiggered 'Crossfire'
Alicia Keys and U2 come out on top at Grammys
Goodwin dropped from 'NewsHour' amid flap
Doctors ask NBC to say no to liquor ads
FT's Thomson picked to edit The Times

Web Shorts
Playboy opens storefront on eBay
MIT scientist builds robot war correspondent
Legal eagles create copyright site
Surfers don't want to pay for music downloads
NNR: Personal finance sites are addictive

People

Linda Mason joins Condé Nast as VP of strategic sales; Matthew Roberts named executive director of marketing
Charlie Taney rejoins Foote, Cone & Belding as vice chairman
Garret Vreeland appointed VP of national sales at LookSmart
David Hills named COO at About.com
Sean Hannity signs multi-year contract extension with Fox
David Daniels named VP of sales at InSight Telecommunications

Friday, March 1, 2002

• Signs of life for kids television
  Decline in ad inventory and talk of a healthy upfront
• Don't write off ABC quite yet
  Television: Analysts say a couple of hits could shoot it to No. 1
• A case of age bias in Hollywood
  Television: Suit charges younger writers picked for most shows
• Shopping sites see a kickup in biz
  New media: Olympic hunger? Papa John's visits nearly double.
• Enough! Stop trying to 'fix' web advertising.
  Commentary: What needs 'fixing' is one WSJ writer's ignorance

News Shorts
'Survivor' opener loses to 'Friends'
Letterman talks to CBS. But what of 'Nightline'?
Madden moves to 'MNF' as Miller exits
Quelle surprise: Us No. 2, passed over, scoots
Goodwin's seat on Pulitzer board questioned
CBS will air 9/11 documentary commercial-free

Web Shorts
VP unveils new FirstGov site
NetRatings: Here comes the MLB
EBay shutters its Japanese auction site
NY Times columnists' info open for hackers
Wrestlers lose domain name to wildlife

People

Johnathan Rodgers steps down as president of Discovery Networks
Tracey Wagner promoted to sales manager at National Cable Communications
David Rosenberg of Wall Street Journal Television News dies
Stephen Creet resigns as EVP and chief creative officer at Young & Rubicam
Rob Ingalls and David Moranville join Davis-Elen Advertising as executive creative directors
Spike Milligan dies at age 83

Monday, March 4, 2002

• Death kiss for Teen magazine
  Ailing Primedia shutters circulation-losing title
• Weakening pulse for reality TV shows
  Television: Steep audience drops could prove life-shortening
• Madden makes cents for ABC
  Sports TV: But dollar story for NFL games is another issue
• Web goes from wow to mainstream
  New media: Study finds it fully integrated into American life
• Putting your client on pay phone kiosks
  Out of home: Coast to coast network for major ad campaigns

News Shorts
A strong Sunday night for Fox
Will Letterman's leap leave Koppel in the cold?
ESPN's 'Brink' will give viewers a F***ing earful
Tonya Harding vs. Paula Jones on 'Celeb Boxing'
Steamy scandal at Harvard Business Review

Web Shorts
MSN tries again to lure AOL users
Nerve.com: No free chat for you
ESPN.com shoved back under TV umbrella
London’s Tate Gallery displays Turners online
Britney Spears email worm makes its way
How Germany got its IP groove back

People

Kathy Nicholas named advertising manager at Time Los Angeles
Jay Carr retiring as movie reviewer at The Boston Globe
Michael Murphy leaving as COO at the Financial Times
Bobbie Battista launching Atamira Communications
Brian Dennehy to appear in CBS pilot
Jean Smart signs on for forthcoming NBC pilot

Tuesday, March 5, 2002

• Figuring out what media works best
  Research: New study gauging results by product category
• Letterman flap as a war of egos
  Television: It's a bit about TV news but mostly personalities
• Stuart Elliott on the state of the ad biz
  Interview: NY Times columnist opines on range of issues
• What agencies bring to web advertising
  New media: Their response to efforts to cut them out of the loop
• A better way to track TV ads
  Technology: New software promising more precise reporting

News Shorts
CBS edges out NBC in 18-49s
Cokie and Sam dropped from 'This Week'?
S.F. Examiner goes tabloid in May
Parole board nixes Amy's 'Celeb Boxing' bout
WB to 'Off Centre' writers: Cut some penises

Web Shorts
Vatican warns against online religion
Slashdot: See big ads or pay to participate
Filmmaker Lynch starts an entertainment site
Dot.com layoffs at lowest level in two years
Parade magazine rolls out web edition

People

Ernest J. Renzulli appointed VP and publisher of Robb Report
Janet Schatz joins BusinessWeek TV as director of sales
Steve Doerr resigns as VP of news at NBC
David Lawenda joins TNN as SVP of ad sales; Steve Handler and Jim Gatto named ad sales directors
Michael Sileck joins TMP Worldwide as CFO
Kellie Martin and Mario Van Peebles to appear in new Lifetime pilot

Wednesday, March 6, 2002

• CBS building on its Thursday strength
  Network recap: 'CSI' and 'Survivor' put it at No. 2 among 18-49 set
• McDonell's SI: Not a radical remake
  Magazines: Defying predictions, editor keeps much of the old
• Go, for biz travelers in these tough times
  Magazines: New Amex quarterly is a companion to SkyGuide
• Rising UPN plumps up its schedule
  Television: But there's a risk: CBS handoffs could hurt brand
• Broadband era is upon us at last
  New media: High-speed users logging more hours than dialers

News Shorts
'Ellie' slips but still wins 18-49s in second outing
Justice Dept. will review media mergers
RDA folds 50-plus title New Choices
ABC: We're not dropping Sam and Cokie
Bond girl dons a bra for ABC viewers
Grieving for Fluffy? Buy her an obit

Web Shorts
'Feminist' worm launched to fight sexism
Yahoo Groups rendered inaccessible
JMM introduces online ad tools
Cinemax airs original internet short
Purple dino Barney: don't screw with me online

People

Robert Levine to senior editor of Wired magazine
Christopher J. Nolan joins the Magazine Publishers of America as VP and general counsel
George L. Hawkey named manager of new business development at Cable Scope Inc.
Marcy Dill named marketing director of Sky & Telescope magazine
Dave Woodruff promoted to national automotive director at Gruner + Jahr USA
Hank Oster resigns as Adlink's EVP and GM
Bill Collier appointed VP of regional advertising sales for Premier Retail Networks

Thursday, March 7, 2002

• Can it be? Stern in for Letterman?
  Web gossip Matt Drudge: Shock jock high on the list
• Flash! Median age went up for Olympics.
  Research: NBC's gains in young viewers offset by elder set
• 'Random Years,' friendliest of 'Friends'
  TV review: Less so for 'Leap of Faith.' And forget about 'As If.'
• Clint and Julia, cable's fearsome duo
  Cable recap: Movies pull big #s for TNT and TBS. Surprised?
• Larger web ad formats gaining acceptance
  New media: Biggest increase for skyscrapers--2000% in a year

News Shorts
Strong Wednesday for NBC
ABC takes 'The Chair' off the air
Oscar ad time sold out but prices down from '02
Clueless Fox taps humorist as Poundstone pundit
Carey, 'South Park' rapped for edgy jokes

Web Shorts
Fox movies will be hawked on Yahoo
NYTimes.com strikes cartoon from site
Slate: We were suckered by fake diary entries
Al Qaeda tries to regroup via email
Japanese dating sites attract criminal element

People

Rich Jaroslovsky leaving as senior editor at The Wall Street Journal
Karen Ellis joins Deutsch as SVP and group creative director
Warren Jenson steps down as Amazon's CFO
Scott Collins appointed TV editor for The Hollywood Reporter
Bob Gorrell named editorial cartoonist for America Online News Channel
Liz Koman joins Rainbow Advertising Sales Corp.
Jason Bateman and Nikki Cox to appear in NBC comedy pilot
Mary McCormack and Danny Nucci sign up for CBS pilots

Friday, March 8, 2002

• Hurt sets in for luxury magazines
  Join industry in steepening ad slide since January
• CBS's risky ploy with Sunday's '9/11'
  Television: Will viewers watch or be turned off by brouhaha?
• For country listeners, it's God and country
  Radio: A look at their values in post-Sept. 11 America 
• Decisive win for NBC's Olympics site
  New media: On-air promotions put it way ahead of the pack.
• Recovery, you say. What recovery?
  Ad economy: 2002 looking grimmer following a most-grim 2001

News Shorts
Slight rebound for 'Survivor' but not enough
ABC, CBS woo Dave with promo power
Vanilla Ice vs. Todd Bridges on 'Celeb Boxing'
CBS hopes 'CSI' will be next 'L&O'
Legal tussle over judge's 'No TV' ruling

Web Shorts
Yahoo: Sorry, MapQuest, we’re making our own
Gov’t Enron investigators pull site offline
Half a billion people use the net at home
Sony is launching a PlayStation 2 site
Big online buy of books backfires on author

People

Carrie Fitzmaurice promoted to VP and publisher of Entrepreneur magazine
Lionel Barber named managing director of the U.S. Financial Times; David Wighton named news editor
N.R. Kleinfield and Anne Hull to receive awards at American Society of Newspaper Editors convention
Walter Goodman dies at age 74
Jeff Lucas named president of ad sales at USA Networks
Janet Bustin appointed managing director of DDB Dallas; Steve Sweitzer to executive creative director

Monday, March 11, 2002

• So, tell us, Dave, yes or no?
  Expect Letterman's decision: CBS or off to ABC
• Looking beyond bad boy John Huey
  Magazines: Real story is remaking of Time Inc. in AOL image
• In local TV news, it's about believing
  Interview: Researcher Jon Currie on what viewers want post 9/11
• Ah, spring, and moms make plans
  New media: Women's sites see boost in traffic as winter eases
• Off to the Hamptons with your message
  Out of home: Wrap buses loaded with weekending New Yorkers

News Shorts
CBS scores big with '9/11'
Scandal-stained HBR editor steps down
Oprah will call it quits after 2005-06 season
NBC marks 75th with casts from the past
ABC plans 'Phenomenon' remake

Web Shorts
Space.com chief takes large step out of there
Study: Much online medical info quacks
Coming soon, maybe: ‘Dot.kids’ domains
Dot.com dance of death hits record low
Online pornster whacks U.S. Army for $300k

People

L.A. Times editor John Carroll elected chairman of the Pulitzer Prize board
Anne Meara to appear on the new season of HBO’s 'Sex and the City'
Lloyd Scott named SVP at at Universal Studios Networks
John Ritter takes lead role in the ABC pilot '8 Simple Rules'

Tuesday, March 12, 2002

• Dave speaks: I'm staying at CBS
  Letterman: Executives are morons, Koppel's cool
• The quiet what of Real Simple
  Magazines: It's no Rosie, or O or Martha, but crank it does
• Heavy revs from the Speed Channel
  Sports TV: Strong early #s for NASCAR-w/o-races network
• What's hot on TV? Check the internet.
  New media: Spikes to companion sites are a leading indicator
• A smarter way to clear commercials
  Technology: Post 9/11, increased pressure to go fully digital

News Shorts
Celeb 'Fear Factor' walks away with 18-49s
Mrs. Welch: Hit the road, Jack
EW's Seymore to run Time4Media?
'Sally Jessy Raphael' gets cancelled
Shareholders try to block RDA acquisition
Which cable news blowhards blow hardest?

Web Shorts
Revealed: AOL's Netscape is a cyber-snooper
Yahoo will charge for GeoCities services
Sept. 11 fading from list of top search terms
Screen-saver project aids anthrax research
Defectors eye life in mostly make-believe Ladonia

People

Philip B. Dusenberry to retire as chairman of Omnicom Group's BBDO North America in May
Bob Allen, Patricia Aguirre, John Cesa, and Alexander Fiske named account executives at National Cable Communications
DGA president Jack Shea resigns
Melissa Gilbert elected president of the Screen Actors Guild
'Weakest Link' host Anne Robinson to guest star on NBC's 'Providence' on April 5
Elton John to appear on NBC's 'Last Call with Carson Daly' on March 29

Wednesday, March 13, 2002

• 'Survivor' and '9/11' give CBS a boost
  Ratings recap: Push it within pinching range of NBC for the week
• Now, whither ABC and Koppel?
  Television: Will he quit? What would fill his slot? We ponder.
• Abramowitz moves over to Seventeen
  Magazines: Ex-Teen pub's job: Fend off YM and Teen People
• Profile of folks visiting entertainment sites
  New media: Experienced users who click ads and buy online

News Shorts
'Ellie' slips but still wins her slot
Eisner to Koppel: We can work it out
New editor at Rodale's Organic Style
Global '9/11' airing planned for anniversary
Nickelodeon orders five new series

Web Shorts
‘Dot.usa’ domain name scam gets shut down
DoubleClick unloads its email list business
Earthlink will offer broadband via AT&T lines
Cable net access penetration increases, again
Former web mega-advertiser NextCard cuts staff

People

Kevin Gentzel named group advertising director West of Forbes Magazine Group
Former CBS-TV president Thomas F. Leahy dies at age 64
Laura Dern to guest star on the March 28 episode of NBC’s 'The West Wing'
Mary Stuart Masterson joins the cast of the CBS drama pilot 'R.U.S./H.'

Thursday, March 14, 2002

• The mainstreaming of online shopping
  New media: Growth will be driven by average Joes and Janes
• Week of big #s for cable originals
  Ratings recap: Top shows: 'Brink,'  'Osbournes' and 'South Park'
• Soon, Fox's O'Reilly as a radio gabster
  Radio: He'll be going head-to-head with Rush Limbaugh
• Talking with Disney's Deborah Dugan
  Interview: Publishing president on coping with the downturn

News Shorts
'Celebrity Boxing' does the job for Fox
Rosie: President Bush is wrong on gay adoption
Drexler tapped as new Optimedia CEO
Sony settles over fake critic shenanigan
Ex-NY Post employee claims anti-Yankee bias

Web Shorts
Dissed, Arthur Andersen dumps TheStreet.com
Radio PSAs will offer internet privacy tips
Silicon ceiling? Women are less wired at work.
Federal gambling ban may extend to web casinos
Adobe sinks half a mil into Salon

People

Quinn Taylor to head of the motion pictures for television and miniseries division at ABC
Jon Yasuda, Kenneth Omura and Greg Macabenta elected president, board secretary and board treasurer of the executive board of the Asian American Advertising Federation
Joie Chen to join CBS News as a correspondent based in Washington

Friday, March 15, 2002

• FCC: Cable can close its broadband pipes
  New media: May choose not to carry competitors' services
• 'Tis the season of short-flight series
  Television: Networks test shows for fall, but at some risk
• Sia Michel rises to top pencil at Spin
  Magazines: First woman to edit a national rock music title
• 'Believer' on Showtime: A must-must-see movie
  TV review: Riveting story of Jewish neo-Nazi airs Sunday
• Demand better data from web publishers
  Commentary: It's there, yet most do a poor job profiling visitors

News Shorts
Rosie's 'Primetime' chat dunks college basketball
Andrea Thompson departs Headline News
Report: Jealous CBS rethinking liquor ad ban
Hallmark Channel aims to crack cable top 10
Things we like: Truman's give-em-hell letter

Web Shorts
HBO sponsors NYTimes.com ‘Laramie’ section
Yahoo cuts another big Hollywood deal
Is AOL out to ditch Microsoft Explorer? Could be.
Google tests site for chasing down news stories
Je suis chic: French president chats online

People

Laurette Hayden joins USA Network as SVP of long-form programming
Longtime Boston Globe editor Thomas Winship passes away at the age of 81
Rena Sofer to appear on NBC’s 'Friends' in May

Monday, March 18, 2002

• Perhaps a shot for indoor soccer
  Sports  TV: No joke, hybrid game may be a natural for cable
• On the web, the big get bigger
  New media: AOL gains in ad revenues for '01, year of decline
• Behind the crisis at the newsstand
  Interview: Meredith's Murray on biz of retail magazine sales
• Putting your client on Mardi Gras beads
  Out of home: Toss them at a parade to spring break revelers

News Shorts
Strong Sunday for ABC with 18-49s
Gloves come off in nasty Oscar race
New toppers at Infinity Radio and MTV Networks
GQ big cheese Cooper gets smaller
The lowdown on Oscar's ad rules

Web Shorts
March Madness a slam dunk for web traffic
Morpheus adds anti-piracy feature for indie bands
Ask Jeeves UK's user base posts 174% growth
Pirated Oscar nominees for sale on eBay
Canadian site to put TV shows online

People

Former NBC chairman Pat Weaver passes away at age of 93
Lara Flynn Boyle and Heather Locklear to appear on Fox’s 'Ally McBeal' on April 22
James Cameron to direct the season finale of Fox’s 'Dark Angel'
Roger Cohen to foreign editor at The New York Times

Tuesday, March 19, 2002

• LHJ's Myrna Blyth steps up at Meredith
  Magazines: Named edit director for New York publications
• Behind 'Today Show's' loss of viewers
  Television: Cable got them but networks still own mornings
• Yahoo Internet Life, still here and kicking
  Magazines: 'We've never been about moguls and startups'
• Rising economy boosts radio's ad $ prospects
  Radio: BIA forecasts a 3.7 percent rise in revenues in 2002
• Sudden traffic burst to investment sites
  New media: Could be the reviving economy or simply tax time

News Shorts
Longer 'Fear Factor' takes 18-49s
No Yankees for Cablevision as YES launches
Executive shuffle at Gemstar-TV Guide
CBS broadcaster blows it with profane doodle
'L&O' not guilty of inspiring Andrea Yates

Web Shorts
AOL Moviefone Oscars poll picks 'Rings'
Expect lawsuits over FCC’s cable internet ruling
Florida homeowners: No porn in our backyard
Warning: CIA web site may be tailing you
New ‘Star Wars’ gets high sign in 'sneak' preview

People

Suzanne Ruffa joins Us magazine as fashion/retail advertising director
Adam Goldberg signs on to star in the ABC/Touchstone drama pilot 'E.I.S'

Wednesday, March 20, 2002

• Fritz in a fit over media merger review
  Washington: Senator rips plan to give power to Justice Dept.
• Revealed: More skinny on the NY Sun
  Newspapers: Conservative daily in April debut with 60K copies
• Fox's big punch with 'Celebrity Boxing'
  Ratings recap: Missed Tonya and Paula? Tune in tomorrow night.
• Olympics prove web's power to cross-promote
  New media: Real success was in pairing coverage with TV
• Readers see speedier ad recovery
  Poll finds many believe it is already underway

News Shorts
'Richter' debut leads Fox to an 18-49 win
MSNBC's Matthews apologizes to Koppel, Lehrer
Post reporter fired for being tough on Disney?
CNN struggles to make Zahn investment pay
NFL plan will eliminate weak 'MNF' matchups

Web Shorts
Terra Lycos launches fee-based game service
Sweeps: Coming soon to the internet
Merriam-Webster puts dictionary online for a fee
CNN: You now have to pay for streaming videos
AOL's growth slows, even with signups incentives

People

Anne Marie Kelly joins Mediamark Research Inc. as VP of marketing and strategic planning
Theresa Edy to VP of series programming for Lifetime Television
Holly Hunter signs on to narrate the USA Network's 'Eco-Challenge: New Zealand'
Molly Shannon to appear in several episodes of HBO's 'Sex and the City'

Thursday, March 21, 2002

• NBC swears off liquor advertising
  Television: Wilts under pressure from Congress and public
• New Yorker up for 9 magazine awards
  Magazines: Details, revived under Fairchild, earns two nods
• Killer premiere for FX's 'Shield'
  Cable recap: Gritty copper sets record for original cable debut
• One guy's warm take on Elle Girl
  Magazine review: Now here's a teen fashion title that gets it right
• Our picks for this year's Oscars
  Television: Why wait for Sunday? It's Russell and Nicole.

News Shorts
'Survivor,' building strength, takes 18-49s
Rumor: LeBlanc set to star in 'Friends' spinoff
Irate Rosie distances herself from anti-gay group
Police bust up Michael Moore book signing
Speedy Gonzales MIA from Cartoon Network

Web Shorts
Global web porn sting busts a dozen suspects
Buggy software blocks some Yahoo users
'Spider-Man' movie trailer will debut on the web
Gov’t intensifies Orbitz antitrust probe
Online reference library from Oxford U. Press

People

Dimitri Boylan to leave his post of acting president and CEO of HotJobs at the end of the month
Mashawn Nix joins Tribune Entertainment as director of unscripted and reality programming and development
Ben Stiller to appear on the 100th episode of CBS’s 'King of Queens'

Friday, March 22, 2002

• Geez, less trash on Broadcast TV
  Television: Study finds a big decline in raunch and violence
• Rukeyser booted from stock chat show
  Television: Fortune editor brought in to lure younger viewers
• Want to reach CEOs? Try the web.
  New media: Study finds the internet is their medium of choice
• 'American Embassy' is a real stinker
  TV review: 'A hackneyed, poorly written exercise in tedium'
• Web's troika: AOL,Yahoo, Microsoft
  New media: Lead as both top advertisers and top ad domains

News Shorts
NBC's Thursday dunks CBS's basketball
Reader's Digest buys Reiman for $760 million
UPN rids Tuesday of 'Random Years,' 'As If'
Dave's dilemma brings eyeballs to late night
New on Fox: 'Search for a Playboy Centerfold'

Web Shorts
Yahoo: You'll be paying for remote email access
About.com guides file suit against Primedia
High-security defense job site cleared of spying
Utah media to governor: Email is public record
WashPost and Capitals in cross-promo deal
 

People

Jeanne Schwenk named publisher of Elle Girl magazine
Suzanne Kolb promoted to EVP of marketing at the WB
Doug Miller appointed sales director at Henninger Media Services
Barry Watson leaving the cast of the WB’s '7th Heaven' at the end of this season
Andre Braugher joins the cast of CBS’s pilot 'Hack'
Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter to star in the original HBO movie 'Live From Baghdad'
Jake Tapper joins VH1 News as an on-air reporter and host

Monday, March 25, 2002

• Rukeyser gagged after on-air rant
  Television: Booted 'Wall $treet Week' host rips into producers
• YES may have #s in Yankees face-off
  Sports TV: Report has fans scooting Cablevision for satellite
• Flaw in the plan to revive 'MNF'
  Sports TV: Better games will help but real issue is NFL's cost
• E.T.'s the hot web thing
  New media: No surprise either, on its return 20 years later 
• Air your message before big $ travelers
  Out of home: Ads on cable go into guest rooms of posh hotels

News Shorts
Academy Awards sweep, no surprise
A Beautiful night for 'Mind' and black actors
The curse strikes again? NBC benches 'Ellie'
FCC won't rap ABC over Victoria's Secret special
Tom Green collects his Razzies in person

Web Shorts
AOL Time Warner workers need not use AOL
Log on to see the Mona Lisa and the Louvre
Google restores anti-Scientology web site
Poetry Society loses site to Viagra shill
Internet worm masquerading as Clinton cartoon

People

Victoria Sanchez-Lincoln named fashion director at Latina magazine
Robert Altman to direct a series of promo spots for E! Entertainment Television
Roshumba Williams joins 'Entertainment Tonight' as a correspondent

Tuesday, March 26, 2002

• 'Twas a stinker as Oscar nights go
  Television: Sets ratings low as well as length--4 hrs, 13 mins.
• WSJ and NYT chase the leisure set
  Newspapers: And a race it is--great weekend macramé escapes
• Meet this band of media angels
  Interview: Songsters protesting consolidation of ownership
• Both political parties are web laggards
  New media: Study finds Repubs are a tad savvier than Dems
• AMC's ginger steps in in-flick ads
  Cable: Will it lose film buffs to Turner Classic Movies?

News Shorts
CBS wins Monday, but NBC's 'Fear' remains strong
Judge rules Zahn did right by Fox
March Madness ratings up 10% through Sunday
'Celeb Boot Camp'? Fox is working on it
Claim: 'The PJs' stole my identity

Web Shorts
Gov’t sites purge weapons-related info
Anti-Defamation League upgrades internet filter
Elderly Washington writer’s site lands him in jail
Rebel fighters devise web game to kill foes
Newspaper marriage proposal pulls thousands

People

Robert Luff named to the newly created position of EVP and CTO at Nielsen Media Research
David Sternberg to SVP and GM of Fox Sports World and Fox Sports World Español
Jeremy Piven to star in UPN's drama pilot 'Twilight Zone'

Wednesday, March 27, 2002

• YES nixes Cablevision bid to carry Yankees
  Sports TV: Advice to fans: Drive to Baltimore for opening day
• Booted Rukeyser talking with CNBC
  Cable: Stock chatter as ammo against CNN's Dobbs?
• Puzzling success of CBS's 'Baby Bob'
  Ratings recap: Ignoring critics, viewers rally behind fill-in sitcom
• Hispanic TV's case for better viewer #s
  Television: Low reporting may cost $100M in ad revenue
• Pay for content? Plan on it.
  New media: Users may resist but they'll have little choice

News Shorts
Fox takes 18-49s, powered by 'Richter'
Tyson-Lewis title fight set for June 8
Playboy plans 'Women of Enron' issue
More job chops at MSNBC and Oxygen
Free subscription for newspaper box captive

Web Shorts
Republican Nat’l Committee evangelizes online
Divorcing NASCAR driver Gordon fuels web traffic
Feds end eBay antitrust investigation
ISPs and consumer groups sue over cable net access rule
AOL subsidiary enlists Google for web searches

People

ABC Family president Maureen Smith resigns
Suzanne Lang named advertising director at Blender magazine
Cathy Weeden named VP and GM of the Sunshine Network
Peter Chernin, Tom Freston, John Hendricks, Robert Iger and Jamie Kellner to appear at the 51st annual National Cable & Telecommunications Association show in New Orleans
Ted Turner to be presented the 'Lifetime Achievement Award' at the Broadcast Cable Financial Management Association's 42nd Annual Conference

Thursday, March 28, 2002

• Big bounce-back for web ad spending 
  Forecast: 2002 gains will nearly reach 2000 peak
• Graydon: Come, Tina, write for me
  Magazines: Suggests a column. We wonder, is he sincere?
• Cable's suddenly hot 'Osbournes'
  Ratings recap: MTV reality show rocks ahead of 'Real World'
• CBS fall pilots fly familiar skies
  Television: Return of 'Survivor' and 'CSI' spinoff set in Miami

News Shorts
NBC wins 18-49s with its regular lineup
Fox and CBS nix NFL's game swap plan
'Ellie' may have a future at NBC after all
A sign of things to come for EW's Seymore?
HBO brings back 'Band of Brothers'
Study: Heavy TV watchers prone to aggression

Web Shorts
Online travel bookings rise after 9/11 tumble
Court: Napster must stay dark
AOL UK dumps established online brands
Heaven’s Gate van is for sale on eBay
 

People

Comedian Milton Berle passes away at the age of 93
Angela Shapiro named president of the ABC Family Channel
Frank R. Garland joins Prime Point Media as SVP of sales and marketing
Brenda Hurner, Bob LeBlanc Jennifer Mamaril and Lori Seger-Ludington to account executives for National Cable Communications
British actor Dudley Moore dies at the age of 66
David Kudon and Greg Gajus named VPs of audience analysis for the new corporate research group at Turner Broadcasting; Robin Thomas to VP of forecasting and planning

Monday, April 1, 2002

• Cablevision rejects last-minute YES plea
  TV sports: Dolan snubs Hindery appeal over Yankee games
• NFL punts on 'MNF' scheme
  Sports TV: Nixes plan to give richer mix of games to ABC
• Alas, nevermore for 'Once & Again'
  Television: ABC ices praised Monday emotion-laden drama
• 'Andy Richter,' Fox goofy and good
  TV review: A bit of this and that but a charmer in its own right
• 'Greg the Bunny' doesn't hop
  TV review: Too predictable puppets-among-humans gimmick
• Put your client on school mouse pads
  Out of home: Great sales tool for stuff kids buy on the internet
• E as in Easter and entertainment
  New media: Pre-holiday traffic rise to Oscar and religion sites

News Shorts
'Commandments' give ABC 18-49s-household wins
Auditor: Penthouse might not make it this year
AOL TW lands at No. 37 on Fortune 500
Oprah declines White House's Afghanistan invite
Greek politicians move to ban reality TV

Web Shorts
Yahoo will share private data
Netscape browser penetration sinks to new low
Net users buying digital cameras
North Korea dabbles in internet gambling biz
NYTimes.com job section traffic doubles

People

Justin Barocas promoted to media director at Wieden+Kennedy
Film director Billy Wilder died last Wednesday at the age of 95
Maria Baugh named executive editor at In Style
CNN newsman Ed Turner passes away at the age of 66
John Nogawski named president of Paramount Domestic Television
Roger Ogden elected chairman of the NBC affiliate-advisory board

Tuesday, April 2, 2002

• Rukeyser set to reveal new show?
  Television: Stock chatter appearing Thursday on 'Larry King'
• Playgirl: Enron men, strip for us
  Magazines: Follows Playboy pitch to company's female staff

News Shorts
College hoopsters give CBS an easy win
Phil Donohue in talks to join MSNBC lineup
Blow book tells of JFK Jr.'s last days
MTV loads up on new reality shows
Anniversary mania for NBC and CBS

Web Shorts
Dot.com job cuts back on the rise
Online tax preparation is slow to catch on
April Fool’s Day story sinks Canadian dollar
Another Fool’s prank: Pigeons power Google
Ad Age buys ad-archiver AdCritic.com

People

Randy Bondar named account manager for radio sales services at Arbitron Inc.
Kelly Konis White appointed director of marketing at Business 2.0
Clay Steely promoted to VP of engineering at ABC Radio
David Caruso to star in CBS’s 'CSI' spinoff 'CSI: Miami'
Sandra Bullock to guest star on ABC’s midseason family comedy 'George Lopez' on April 10

Wednesday, April 3, 2002

• Court pokes holes in TV station ban
  Washington: Tells FCC to revise owner limits in small markets
• Big talent plans for also-ran MSNBC
  Cable: Beefing up roster to vie with CNN and Fox News
• Hoopster finals pull off a rebound
  Ratings recap: See 2 percent ratings boost for Final Four games
• 2001 as a milestone year for the internet
  New media: Led by explosion of new users outside of the U.S.
• Let's quit apologizing for the internet
  Commentary: It's not TV. It's not print. We need to sell its merits.

News Shorts
'Watching Ellie' pulls late crowd
News shows retain post-Sept. 11 gains
Israel threatens CNN and NBC with legal action
Fox axes 'Embassy'; UPN drops 'Race' and 'Roof'
Costas inks expanded deal with HBO

Web Shorts
Son auctions his mother's love online
Family’s activities will be webcast from Harrod’s
Sayonara, Pokémon: Cartoon fades in popularity
America’s Most Wired: Bay Area, Austin, Boston
Coming soon, ads on browser toolbars

People

Brian Gallagher to take over as executive editor of USA Today on June 1
Reba Talmonn named domain manager at Direct Mail Services
David Lucoff named VP of affiliate sales for Fox Sports Net Florida
Susan Sarandon to star in the Sci Fi Channel's six-hour miniseries 'Children of Dune'

Thursday, April 4, 2002

• Donahue joining MSNBC as chatter
  Television: Ultra-liberal will air against Fox News' O'Reilly
• Warm afterglow for big TV events
  Research: Retain viewers for weeks, notably hard-to-reach
• Yankee fan? Consider a dish.
  Sports TV: Little hope for end to YES-Cablevision standoff
• Wrestling's loss was USA's gain
  Cable recap: Well-healed from WWF flight. And TNN? Hot, too
• Web searchers get serious, not smarter
  New media: Lag in ability to refine searches for better results

News Shorts
Not a good night for new comedies
Fences mended, Grammys come home to NYC
Liquor makers rally after NBC flip-flop
'X-Files' and more on the Sci Fi Channel
Trump seeks a home for beauty pageants

Web Shorts
Chicago Tribune: Register if you want to read
Opening day of baseball swamps MLB.com
Google now has a rival in goosed-up Teoma
C-SPAN posts Nixon tapes online

People

Jane Byram joins Kolar Advertising & Marketing as media director
Lisa Fazio to beauty director at People magazine
John Baisley named president of Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems
Charles C. Smith appointed VP of operations at Tacoda Systems Inc.

Friday, April 5, 2002

• With Gumbel out, who will CBS pick?
  Television: Names abound to host lagging a.m. news show
• Clutter rises, even in weak ad economy
  Research study: Nearly 1 in 4 primetime minutes in 2001
• 'The Shield,' best cop show out there
  TV review: Gritty, frank and well-acted--but, oh, the violence
• Those big ads on CNET really work
  New media: Certainly on CNET. Targeting appears to be key.
• If you're camping, log on to a dot.gov
  New media: Planning vacations is top use of government sites

News Shorts
Killer 'ER' swamps CBS
Rukeyser teases new show on 'Larry King'
Powell Doctrine aims to speed DTV rollout
CBS looking to double Dave's face time
Dennis takes Blender up to 10 times a year
WB purges three shows, including 'Rock Star'

Web Shorts
AOL wins one against spamsters
Web users grow less keen on gov’t snooping
Dot.com deaths declined in first quarter
Yahoo strikes its invite site
Queen Mum memorial web site packs ’em in

People

Matt Stone upped to executive editor of Motor Trend; Larry Crane to art director
Jeff Smith promoted to president and CEO of marketing and advertising firm Fellers
Arem Duplessis named design director at Spin magazine
Joe Franzetta joins GoldPocket Interactive as SVP of corporate development and strategic partnerships
Cary Goss named director of business development at design firm Otherwise Inc.

Tuesday, April 9, 2002

• Record 7 Pulitzers for New York Times
  Awarded for 'Portraits and Grief' and more
• News sites ride high thanks to Oprah and Hillary
  New media: Rites of spring also shape week's traffic flow
• Ahoy there, consumers! Send your client on a boat ride
  Out of home: Ferry ads for reaching upscale commuters

News Shorts
NBC's 'Fear Factor' picks up while CBS falters
CNN stop date set for May 15
'Sex and the City' makes way for baby
Read it and weep: Oprah halts book club
Leno: Why can't Letterman make nice?

Web Shorts
Yahoo introduces pay-to-play gaming
NYTimes.com pairs up with BBC to offer audio
Providence mayor holds journos' URLs hostage
Bertelsmann to snap up the rest of Napster
Tiger Woods auctions exclusive round of golf

People

Marc Goldstein to CEO of MindShare North America
George Shirk to step down as editor in chief at Wired News
Stephen Jacoby to associate publisher of marketing at In Style
Michael J. Levine named COO of the new sport and entertainment division at Van Wagner Communications
Prominent TV producer Roy Huggins passed away last Wednesday at the age of 87

Wednesday, April 10, 2002

• Pittman jumps in to rescue ailing AOL
  Bid to revive online service amid breakup rumors
• 'Wheel of Fortune'? My grandma watches that
  Syndication: Top syndie shows not tops with young viewers
• Mounting heap of midseason flameouts
  Network recap: But surprise hits in 'Baby Bob' and 'Bachelor'
• Fashion mags join the slump
  Magazines: Major declines for key spring issues

News Shorts
NBC's 'Ellie' just muddles through
ABC commits to two more years of 'Nightline'
Kmart yanks Globe issue with Martha exposé
Cablevision customers take (class) action
Lou rides again: Rukeyser in new CNBC show

Web Shorts
Google hit with patent-infringement suit
EBay looking into nine-hour blackout
St. Paul TV station offers online video-on-demand
Ameritrade scoops up rival brokerage Datek
No more NetRadio: The company dissolves

People

Daniel Finnigan appointed head of HotJobs.com
Bob Brienza named VP of network programming at CNN/U.S.
Dorian Gregory signs on to co-host NBC's nationally syndicated talk show 'The Other Half'

Thursday, April 11, 2002

• Brighter prospects for cable upfront
  Ad sales expected to rise as economy gains
• UPN jettisons star-crossed 'Roswell'
  Television: Sci-fi drama's cult fan base couldn't save it
• Forever young, MTV leads in cable
  Cable recap: Rising #'s for 'Osbournes'-'Real World' duo
• Kids: We'll take the web first
  New media: Study finds medium of choice of 8-to-17-year-olds
• MBA Jungle, biz as a lifestyle
  Magazines: Prepping B-schoolers for the good life beyond

News Shorts
'Greg the Bunny' slips, 'Lopez' inches up
Advertisers edge away from FX's 'The Shield'
FCC greenlights NBC's Telemundo buy
Bush team sits out 'West Wing' special
Fox's sexy Greta asks Ozzy to White House gala

Web Shorts
NetRatings buys AdRelevance from Jupiter
Yahoo offers customer service 900 number
FBI: Internet scams lead consumer complaints
'Elvis' wins, tobacco loses in domain disputes
Wireless net users like streamlined, fast content

People

Stephen M. Swad named EVP of finance and administration for Turner Entertainment Group
Martha McCully named executive editor at In Style
Matt Bai named national affairs correspondent for Rolling Stone magazine
Kevin Aiken promoted to director of sales development and advertising research for the Organic Living Group
Josh Quittner appointed editor of Business 2.0 magazine
Patrick Tyler named chief correspondent at The New York Times
Alice D. Domar, Ph.D., signs on as columnist and contributor at Health magazine
Ben Hurowitz named senior account manager for Guideposts magazine
Tom Toles chosen as the cartoonist for The Washington Post
Natasha Henstridge to star in the new NBC action series 'She Spies'

Friday, April 12, 2002

• Rumors swirl about ailing TV Guide
  Magazines: Plans afoot to radically alter title's distribution?
• MSNBC's new image: Raise the flag, boys
  Cable: Star-spangled makeover for no. 3 news network
• As upfront approaches, a closer look at schedules
  Television: How fall's shows will fill midseason's holes
• 'Survivor:' So bad, and that's why it's good
  TV review: 'Marquesas' marks a return to peak form
• Web presence ups TV ad recall
  New media: Study: Brands benefit from tag-team approach

News Shorts
Weak 'Survivor' can't beat 'Friends' reruns
Report: Inc. browsing for a new editor in chief
AOL TW's share price dives to new low
ABC takes another turn with 'The Bachelor'
Lawsuit over 'Spider-Man' billboard switcheroo

Web Shorts
Authors Guild fights Amazon's used book policy
Lawmakers go ahead with kids.us domain
Guccione: Web porn undermines Penthouse sales
Dot.com ads ride again on television
S. Dakota posts public schoolers' grades online

People

James de Castro named president of the interactive services unit at AOL Time Warner
Maria Celeste Arraras signs on as anchor for 'Al Rojo Vivo' on Telemundo

Monday April 15, 2002

• Wenner boots Men's Journal publisher
  Magazines: Kupiec is out, replaced by Kevin Martinez
• NPR stepping down a brow or two
  Radio: Trims back jazz and classical for more pop 
• Growth spurt for many cable networks
  Adding subscribers as capacity further expands
• Arf! A message from your client.
  Out of home: Mini billboards paraded around by pooches
• 'Well, at least no one died'
  Commentary: You don't really expect a fire, worry as you do

News Shorts
Fox takes Sunday night
Whoopi 'Squares' off after salary dispute
Fox orders another season of 'Bernie Mac'
'The Simpsons' apologizes to Rio de Janeiro
The future of out-of-home: butterfly ads?

Web Shorts
Yahoo users unhappy about new privacy rules
Napster lays off one-third of staff
Porn site swipes Scottish parliament name
ETrade strikes back, buying Tradescape
Online dating service exclusively for twins

People

Jami Opinsky to the newly created position of associate publisher of the Parents Group at G+J USA
Jim McCabe named national advertising director of Fast Company
Matt Mastrangelo to national ad director at Rolling Stone
James Caan to star in an untitled pilot for Fox from Studios USA

Tuesday, April 16, 2002

• Can Ellen revive syndicated TV?
  Television: Here's hoping. DeGeneres chatter in fall '03
• Self-importance of being earnest
  Newspapers: NY Sun's a little quirky and tilting well to right
• Expect a summer of reality on Fox
  Television: Likely contender: 'I Want a Husband: Alaska'
• Digital cable's best hope: VOD
  Technology: Study finds video on demand is a big lure for subs
• Big traffic bumps for the tax man
  New media: Factoid: More visitors to Quicken than IRS site

News Shorts
'Ally McBeal' returns to chilly reception
Study: Most top shows still don't cross over
Ratings down for Tiger-dominated Masters
Fox News adopts new term, 'homicide bomber'
Discovery seeks to eliminate credit crawl
Irish partisans give reality TV a chance

Web Shorts
Amazon to Author's Guild: Drop dead
Travel boosts overall online retail in Q1
Ashcroft: How 'bout a web terrorist databank?
Comics on the web at a buck a month

People

Jeff Shell named co-president and COO at Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc.
Patricia Nuñez Strid and Jackie O’Hare named beauty directors at Allure magazine
Mark Harmon to guest star on NBC’s 'The West Wing' for four episodes starting May 1
Mia Farrow to appear in CBS's comedy pilot 'Julie Lydecker'

Wednesday, April 17, 2002

• 'Early Show' big in post-Gumbel scoot
  Television: But is Friedman really being given the boot?
• Hmmm, the very classy Fox News
  Cable: Viewers rank it tops in quality ahead of CNN
• Ratings skid in flush of pre-sweep reruns
  Network recap: Repeats were 4 of week's 10 top 18-49 shows 
• Brave Empire struts into New York
  Magazines: Title covering culture of biz in a very tough town
• Faithful flock to religion sites
  New media: Traffic doubles in 6 months, with March surge

News Shorts
'Watching Ellie' edges out 'Richter'
Zenith: Ad spending down 1.9 percent this year
An end in sight for Nick's 'SpongeBob'?
Burnett plots all-star edition of 'Survivor'
Report: Tina B. anxious to scoot Miramax
Comedy Central picks up 'Glick' and 'Geeks'

Web Shorts
EarthLink may chop cost of high-speed access
Study: Consumers don't trust e-commerce
Internet bullies hector online kids
Most searched-for terms: Lotto, taxes, flicks

People

Laurie Zaks named SVP of current programs at UPN
Carolyn Kremins named group publisher at The Week; Jamie Hooper to group publisher at Maxim
Lindsey P. Draves to GM of Multimedia Audience Research Systems
Anne Hunter to director of sales at Tacoda Systems
Eric DeRise joins Interep Interactive’s Cybereps as VP of sales
Susan Cuccinello promoted to SVP of research at the Television Bureau of Advertising
Jack Bedell named SVP of business development for the precision marketing services division at CMR
Michelle Castle to head the new Detroit sales office of the Hallmark Channel
Actor Robert Urich passes away at the age of 55
Forest Whitaker to serve as the host for UPN's new version of 'The Twilight Zone'
Patricia Richardson to star in the Lifetime Network’s drama 'Strong Medicine'

Thursday, April 18, 2002

• Fox dumping 'Ally McBeal'
  Television: Hit primetime series done in by ratings slump
• Sports Afield is set to a-fold
  Magazines: Could not recover from disastrous makeover
• Waning days of big $ TV sports
  Research: Behind the ongoing shift to the cable networks
• 'Osbournes' adds 1 million viewers 
  Cable recap: From a quick hit to phenom for reality series
• Web's less than senior friendly
  New media: Study finds elders have a tougher time surfing

News Shorts
Viewers stay away in droves
Stephanopoulos will go solo on 'This Week'
Osbournes balk at doing more 'Osbournes'
Super stripper and giant rat: TNN's new 'toons

Web Shorts
Web reality contest lets users rule contestants
AOL releases Netscape with CompuServe
As summer nears, travel site traffic surges
Middle East flare-up leads to web defacements
Two-thirds of Europeans will be wired by '06
 

People

Hilary A. Schneider named president and CEO of Knight Ridder Digital
David Moore becomes chairman of 24/7 Real Media’s board of directors
Rachel Friedberg named a senior media planner at CARAT
Greg Messina named New York advertising sales manager for the Organic Living Group
Bob derBoghossian, Doug Gesiorski and Jeremy Pellegrini named account executives at National Cable Communications
Tom Selleck to star in and executive produce an adaptation of Warner Schaefer’s 'Monte Walsh'

Friday, April 19, 2002

• Growing clout of late late news
  Television: Audience increases for post-midnight shows 
• City, a magazine of urban design
  Magazines: Restaurateur's take on good-looking things
• 'George Lopez,' cut from cardboard
  TV review: Latino sitcom has all the flavor of white bread 
• After women? Try health sites.
  New media: Females represent some 60 percent of visitors
• Imagine targeting 'The Simpsons' clan 
  Commentary: Show's characters span all society's segments

News Shorts
Repeating NBC tops CBS
Robert Blake arrested in murder case
TV group boos Discovery's no-credits plan
Canal Plus axing sparks anti-Vivendi protests
Christy and SAG settle over benefit claims

Web Shorts
IAB signs up likes of Google and eBay
Wait, no, vandalism to Israeli sites isn’t up
U.S. DSL growth lags rest of the world
Online life for 'Lord of the Rings' extra
Lining up for 'Attack of the Clones,' web-style

People

Christina Norman upped to EVP and GM of VH1
Laura Nathanson named EVP for the sales and marketing department ABC Family & Kids
Paul Condolora named VP and GM of new media at the Cartoon Network
Mark Addy to star as Jackie Gleason in CBS’s two-hour biopic on the 'Honeymooners' icon
Courtney Thorne-Smith and Lisa Nicole Carson to return for the final episode of Fox’s 'Ally McBeal'

Monday, April 22, 2002

• In sweeps, death be not proud
  Television: Series finales will produce tears--and ideally ratings
• Putting a value on a cover price
  Magazines: In theory, it should say something. Does it?
• Email marketing may annoy but it works
  New media: Notably cost-effective for retaining customers
• Reach workers where they dine
  Out of home: Belly up to the roach coach with your message
• New paradigm: Personality media
  Commentary: Decline of mass, rise of 'you talkin' to me'

Web Shorts
Yodel me this: 'Yahoo-oooo' yodeler sues
Yahoo dumps Career Builder
AltaVista and Google cut RR sabotage links
Maryland: We've web-savvier than all of you
Dress-up Kylie Minogue web site draws fans

Dee Nolan appointed editor-at-large of Time Inc.
Jim Moloshok named SVP of media, information and finance at Yahoo
Thomas McCluskey promoted to VP and and publisher of Biography magazine
Gretchen Mol and Kathleen Robertson join the in-development David E. Kelley dramedy 'Girls Club' for Fox

Tuesday, April 23, 2002

• One for Nielsen in Boston TV standoff
  Television: Signs a broadcast station for new people meter
• Moms leaving TV for the internet
  New media study: Helps them organize their busy lives
• The folks behind TV turnoff week
  Interview: Why taking a boob breather is good for us
• Good $ sense drives Canadian broadband
  Technology: Low intro prices has led to much faster growth
• Going: Me, mine. Coming: We, ours.
  Commentary: Lauding the death of web's personalized news

Web Shorts
Google launches live-expert advice site
Awaiting the cash flow from 'Eve' online game
Sri Lanka's prez publishes personal site
Despite barriers, China's # 2 in home net use
Disputed Abercrombie T-shirts on eBay

People

Wednesday, April 24, 2002

• Yanks' TV: We're suing Cablevision
  YES: Refusal to air games is an antitrust rap
• At last, big hurrah for broadband
  New media: Record number of dial-uppers plan to switch
• When bad things befall good shows
  Ratings recap: Rerun spree is whacking #s for new episodes
• Paying taxes, deeper in debt
  New media: Traffic to debt consolidator up over tax sites
• Fire postscript: Thank you all
  Commentary: Media Life is now pretty much back on track

Web Shorts
On the online auction block: Pelé soccer shirt
Actor Urich's death tops Blake's arrest
Yahoo and its yodeler settle out of court
Oops: Surfers unearth Reagan obit
Yahoo Brazil offers free internet access

People

Thursday, April 25, 2002

• AOL-TW: Psssssst . . . .
  Revenue tumble renews doubts about merger
• Harvard's Suzy hangs up her pen
  Magazines: Report: Welch lust bust editor sexed Ford big
• Summer reality check for ABC
  Television: Looking to genre to rebuild #s going into the fall
• Very hot celeb 'Trading Spaces'
  Cable recap: Big jump in viewers for Dixie Chick room redo
• Web titles aren't wowing readers
  New media: Reading is a hassle compared to print editions

Web Shorts
NYTimes.com peddles premium video clips
'Dot.us' domain goes live
FTC slams door on free game console spam
Cops lose surfing privileges for ogling porn
Insidious virus isn't really from you

People

Friday, April 26, 2002

• Ethnic media's rising impact
  Research: California study shows vast reach and influence
• Canadian gay network eyes U.S.
  Cable: PrideVision sees rich, untapped market
• The bad news about diversity
  Interview: Push for fairness had led to bias against truth
• Lottery madness gets heavy web play
  New media: With spring here, traffic's up at seasonal sites

News Shorts
Strong 'Bachelor' Finale
No proposal on 'Bachelor' series finale
European satellite company plans U.S. service
Prosecutors won't seek death sentence for Blake
Coming to TV: dodgeball and other childish things 

People

Monday April 29, 2002

• Wenner boots Rolling Stone editor 
  Magazines: Revamping music title to stem loss of readers
• Grammy-meister is goosed out
  Television: Sex-harass rap leads to impresario's ouster
• Post 9.11, radio returns to normal
  Listening declines from highs of September
• Ding, dong. Web wedding bells.
  New media: The now hot thing: Matrimonial planning sites
• A pill for a client? Sack him.
  Out of home: Put a message on drugstore prescription bags

Web Shorts
Overture and Yahoo renew their ties
Raunchy emails lead to firing of six workers
U.S. government ranks No. 3 in e-services
Slide in # of dot.nets, dot.coms and dot.orgs
WSJ peddles original ‘hedcuts’ on eBay

Robin Kent promoted to chairman and CEO of Universal McCann Worldwide
Alan Cohen resigns from his post as president of domestic marketing for Twentieth Century Fox
Rona Fairhead appointed CFO at Pearson
Lauren Ramsby named the Sunday editor of the New York Post

Tuesday April 30, 2002

• Oops. Double dip for newsstand sales.
  Magazines: Second year of sliding single-copy revenues
• YES vs. Cablevision over Yankee games
  Sports TV: Suit: Dolans violating antitrust laws to crush us
• Dose of summer reality from NBC
  Television: Game shows too, as networks fend off cable
• New paper for LA? Ex-mayor says yes.
  'The Times has a death wish for Los Angeles'
• Meet the web's 'power users'
  New media: The elite that reads online versions of papers

Web Shorts
Fox backs out of Movies.com deal
World Cup highlights will be webcast
Native American nations get own net suffixes
Webby Award nominees are unveiled
Lara Croft suit goes to auction

People

Wednesday May 1, 2002

• ABC's Bornstein takes a fast hike
  Television: Frustrated by corp. culture and ego clashes
• A speedy recovery for web ad spending
  New media forecast: Rising 12.7% in 2002, to $6.2 billion
• MSNBC gets itself a real editor in chief
  Cable: Hires ex-Postee Jerry Nachman, Lou Grant with brains
• ABC picks up in early sweeps
  Ratings recap: Logs a 15 percent increase in adults 18 to 49
• Yes, ads do do better on sports TV
  Research study finds that viewers pay more attention

Web Shorts
NYTimes email digest carries Klez viral cargo
Now, the complete Hemingway library online
Ticket-seller Fandango sues AOL's Moviefone
Kenya coffee auction comes to the internet
Deep web interest in the late Linda Lovelace

Advertising veteran Jack Jadick dies
Dan Rather to stay at CBS News through 2006
Chris Smith named VP of sales for the Western region for NBC Enterprises
Paul Benjou named director of client services at AdWare Systems
'Everybody Loves Raymond' actor Brad Garrett to star as Jackie Gleason in the biopic for CBS
Deborah Norville reups with King World Productions as anchor of 'Inside Edition'
Glenn Close and Patrick Stewart to star in a remake of 'The Lion in Winter' for Showtime

Thursday May 2, 2002

• Atlantic rises to the occasion
  Michael Kelly wins three National Magazine Awards
• This upfront, big boys play first
  Early deals will be led by the mega-agencies
• Pro hoopsters do a #s leap for TNT
  Cable recap: NBA playoffs push network to top in key demos
• Plumbing the artist that is Woody Allen
  TV review: But not all that deeply in TMC's 'A Life in Film'
• How to flog your book, web-style
  New media: Banner blitz for self-help 'Stay in Love Forever'

Web Shorts
AOL will use Google's search technology
Miller Beer in domain tiff with Miller family
Webcasters go mum to protest royalties
Kmart's Bluelight.com expands its services
Pop performer Minogue in live webcast

People

Friday May 3, 2002

• Media frenzy over Clinton chatter
  Television: NBC confirms talks with ex-Prez about a show
• Cablevision: We're losing few Yank fans
  Sports TV: Disputes 40,000 defections to satellite service
• The real value of subscription prices
  Magazines: Does more mean better for women's titles?
• A nod to Vibe in our hip-hop age
  Magazines: Award speaks to a genre's power
• Big marketers have rich tastes
  New media: Traditional off-line leaders like new ad formats

Web Shorts
BBC launches its own search engine
Melissa virus writer gets 20 months in clink
Online reality contest changes players' lives
Congress: Filters don't keep porn from kids
'Spider-Man' props auctioned off on eBay

People

Monday, May 6, 2002

• Gas eases from Clinton chat plan
  Talk diminishes to a part-time gig in the future
• Red Herring peaks up to sniff recovery 
  Magazines: New publisher say tech sector will lead the way
• Fed 'do-not-call' list has papers nervous
  Newspapers: Deep circ losses if telemarketing rules get OK
• Day for mums and the web
  New media: Traffic boost to flower sites for Mother's day
• Serving up a blue plate special
  Out of home: Messages on placemats at the local java Joe's

News Shorts
Big turnout for NBC's 75th
Maher's 'Incorrect' fill-in: Jimmy Kimmel?
Court: ReplayTV must track viewer usage
FT America gets a new top honcho
Longtime editor scoots Worth magazine
Coming from the WB this fall: 'Everwood'

Web Shorts
TiVo integrates AOL features into box
Internet audience expands a little
'Nu-metal' band's fans threaten knitting group
Belo: Don't link straight to Dallas News stories
Music-swappers are likely to buy music

Joycelyn Winnecke to associate managing editor for national news at the Chicago Tribune
'SNL's' Tracy Morgan to star in his own one-hour special for Comedy Central
Tom Wilkinson and Jessica Lange to topline the HBO feature 'Normal'

Tuesday, May 7, 2002

• At last, hope for media workers
  Jobs are opening up as ad economy revives
• End nears, alas, for Oxford American
  Magazines: SOS from Southern lit title: We need $s pronto
• Vince forks over F to critter folk
  Television: WWF becomes WWE--E as in entertainment
• Some big papers gaining readers
  Newspapers: But most suffer circ slides. What's the cure?
• Job seekers are not site hoppers
  New media: Pick an employment lister and seldom roam

Web Shorts
May sweeps spurs heavy web traffic
Dot.com deaths easing even further
'Spider-Man' is already a hot online bootleg
Unicast nets Enliven, NetRatings nabs @plan
Honduras: We're not spinning off our islands

People

Wednesday, May 8, 2002

• Sweeps stunts falling flaaaaaat
  Television: Ratings slip for all broadcast networks but one
• NBC soars as others stumble
  Television: Widest lead among 18 to 49s since Olympics
• Penthouse: 'Twas an honest booboo
  Magazines: Ah, judge, seems we mistook heiress for Anna
• Streaming media gains with broadband
  New media: More web users use it and even more want to
• Brighter ad picture for video-on-demand
  Technology: New gizmo that slips spots into VOD movies

Web Shorts
Dead TLC rapper trumps Spidey in searches
McDonald's will wire restaurants in Japan
Law school sues a student over web site
Californian sentenced in eBay explosive sale
Convicted murderer places a personal ad

People

Thursday, May 9, 2002

• Mon dieu! ABC without 'Millionaire'?
  The word: Game show will return as specials
• Why it matters if viewers care
  Research study: High involvement = higher ad recall
• TNT bumps Lifetime as household champ
  Cable recap: Credit a 10% jump in viewers for NBA playoffs
• Budget Living, chic for skinflints
  Magazines: Getting the best out of life while paying less
• A big web thing, cyberchondria
  New media: Searching online for cures for all that ails us

Web Shorts
U.S. internet traffic doubled in 2001
Pol's bill: Halt misleading sex domain names
'Dot.pro' domains going on sale at a premium
Nielsen//NetRatings nets ACNielsen eRatings
ComScore and Arbitron work on local net data

People

Friday, May 10, 2002

• Say, hey, muy bien for Hispanic networks
  Television: Expect a 10 percent jump in ad sales in upfront
• Ad pages returning to weeklies
  Magazines: Signs of modest recovery after a brutish year
• Print, for the mind of design
  A magazine about how the world sees itself
• Web's role in life's big deals
  New media: From buying a car to coping with major crises

Web Shorts
ABC web store pulls soap-opera rape doll
Survey: Congress is still chock full o’ Luddites
Pre-‘Day of Silence’ webcaster traffic soars
In the Far East, online smut is hot stuff
IBM and Butterfly.net launch gaming network

People

Tim McHale and Tom Hespos form Underscore Marketing LLC
Brian McMahon appointed president and CEO of Initiative Trading
Zenia Mucha promoted to SVP of corporate communications for The Walt Disney Co.
Scott Kerr named marketing director for GQ magazine
Leonard M. Apcar named editor in chief of NYTimes.com
Rebecca O'Sullivan to VP and GM of Fox Sports Net Arizona
James D'Adamo upped to Eastern divisional manager at YM
Richard Karn hired on as the new host for the syndicated 'Family Feud'

Monday, May 13, 2002

• It's prom week for the networks
  Television: Rolling out shows and schedules for the fall
• A very imaginary world of friends
  Research study: Folks include TV characters in their universe
• Grace, in the spirit of Mode
  Magazines: Hefty challenge faces title for plus-size women
• 'Spider-man'-ia has us in its web
  New media: Traffic way up too for new 'Star Wars' film epic
• Fly your client after very old birds
  Out of home: How cool, squawking pterodactyls in the skies

Web Shorts
Yahoo and SBC offer co-branded net access
ETrade's chief returns millions in salary
'Attack of the Clones' bootlegs hit the web
For sale on eBay: Priceless cuneiform
Bored? MLB offers 'condensed baseball'

Seth Mnookin moves to the national affairs desk at Newsweek magazine as a senior writer
Kevin Abbott named an executive producer and the showrunner for the WB’s 'Reba'

Tuesday, May 14, 2002

• NBC adds just five shows for fall
  Television: Tucks 'Scrubs' into troubled post-'Friends' slot
• WB looking for Thursday laughs
  Television: Four sitcoms slotted as part of fall schedule
• This season's picks and misses
  Television: Looking back, odds-makers scored pretty well
• ABC names Kimmel to replace Maher
  Television: 'Man Show' host will take over 'Incorrect' slot
• Spread your $s buying the web
  New media study: Using many sites gains far more reach

Web Shorts
RealNames goes out of business
Ashcroft starts web monitoring of intn'l students
NASA needs your old, out-of-date computer parts
AOL and eBay rejigger their ad deal
The Pope blesses the internet

People

Wednesday, May 15, 2002

• ABC radically reworks primetime
  Television: Seven new shows and an 8 p.m. family hour
• First-quarter ad $s show solid gains
  Report: Spending up 5.7% across six media 
• Smart Business is out of business
  Magazines: Ziff scuttles PC title that went New Economy
• Mush-driven sweep stunts are no-goes
  Ratings recap: Poor #s for reunions and retired-star specials
• Rebound in online advertising
  New media: Rise of 33 percent between January and April

Web Shorts
Terra Lycos offering ad-free, fee-based email
Mother's Day was a big traffic driver
The pace of internet M&As is picking up
'Spider-Man' crawls up to No.1 search term

People

Thursday, May 16, 2002

• CBS: Crime Broadcasting System
  Television: Fall lineup is heavy on cops and crook shows
• Grand good-bye smooch for Rosie
  Television: Big PR blitz to push talk show finale off the charts
• Astute post-mortem on JFK Jr.'s George
  Magazines: Real value of  Blow's tell-little 'American Son'
• NBA hoop-off wowing viewers
  Cable recap: LA Lakers' dramatic wins boost TNT to the top
• Another blow to convergence
  New media study: TV and web use is really just multi-tasking
• 'You get CNN and a Tulsa billboard...'
  Commentary: The truth about all those cross-platform deals

Web Shorts
Runner's World fusses about links to its web site
Napster CEO resigns amid bankruptcy rumors
L.A. residents complain about planes online
VeriSign told to end direct mail campaign
Dating service seeks spokesman in talent search

People

Friday, May 17, 2002

• Radical surgery for Fox primetime
  Television: Welcome 10 new shows as 'Ally' and 'X' exit
• For UPN, just nips and tucks
  Television: Adds three new shows to build on its success
• Brighter picture for Hispanic networks
  Television: Expect ad boost from revamped Nielsen count
• More family fare from PAX
  Television: Four new shows and a slew of made-for flicks
• The new season, night by night
  TV review: Picking fall's winning and losing new shows
• Nifty growth spurt for big search sites
  New media: Google leads pack, up 54% since November

Web Shorts
Yahoo charges for NY Times stories
China removes foreign news web site filters
New worm resets start page to porn site
Man jailed for impersonating ex in personals

People

Rand Stoll named EVP of domestic sales at Lions Gate Television
Kim Barnard to head up the new Chicago client services office in Chicago for Wilkins Media
Eric Gibson to leisure & arts features editor for The Wall Street Journal
Mia Farrow to star in the Lifetime original movie 'On the Edge'

Monday, May 20, 2002

• CBS's risky copper ploy
  Television: Daring to challenge NBC's whodunit franchise
• Foodie mags, now so so chic
  Magazines: Big audience jump reflects major social trend
• Dig-iT, of gizmos and tech culture
  Magazines: Sound familiar? Dare we say New Economy?
• 'Mom, I got this poem for thee'
  New media: Big traffic burst to poetry.com for the holiday
• Wrap your client around a train car
  Out of home: Big messages flashing across the countryside
• Enough hype over box office $s
  Commentary: Lest we forget, the hit of all time is still 'GWTW'

People
Kathy O'Hearn leaves her post as executive producer of CNN’s 'American Morning with Paula Zahn'
Susan Snowden, Gerard DiPippo and Peter Broadbent elected to the board of directors of the Yellow Pages Integrated Media Association

Tuesday, May 21, 2002

• Penthouse pays up in topless suit
  $s to heiress palmed off as Anna Kournikova
• What's not in entertainment mags
  Ads for movies, oddly. One would think that ...
• A must read: 'If Looks Could Kill'
  Cosmo editor's whodunit: Guess who's who
• 'Mo-o-om, log off, let me surf'
  It's a fact, mothers are online more than kids 
• The over-selling of digital cable
  Churn is high because of come-on promotions

Web Shorts
Most personal sports memorabilia online
Major job cuts befall Agency.com
Court rules against anti-abortion web site
Company wants patent for pop-unders
Teenage boy faces jail for online threats

Wednesday, May 22, 2002    

• Ferrari on top in Wallpaper shakeup
  Magazines: Brûlé goosed by Time Inc. for Teen People fav
• NBC takes all in sweeps and season
  Television: Yet TV viewers slip 2.6%, with 18-49s off 1.5%
• DC's Fritz scuttles agency swaperoo
  Washington: Scheme to cut FTC from media merger review
• There are finales, and yes, finales
  Ratings recap: Season's 'Friends' soars, 'X-Files' limps off
• Consumers saying ugh to spamsters
  New media: Fed up, 80% delete unsolicited mail unread 

News Shorts
'Frasier' finale tops '24' ender
Golin hired to work on Time Inc. launches
ABC has a shot at sweeps news crown
Tough Q's get CNN booted from 'Clones' junket
NBC dumps bad-memory stake in WWE

People
Bridget Potter to executive producer of 'The Caroline Rhea Show'
Regina Stewart inks a two-year deal with 20th Century Fox TV
Michael Frost Beckner steps down from role as executive producer on CBS’s 'The Agency'

Thursday, May 23, 2002     

• Is AOL facing a flight of users?
  New media: Study cites deep dissatisfaction. ISP: Phooey.
• Not so bad Q1 for ad spending
  CMR: Up a tad, with network rising 6.2 percent
• Pry this magazine from cold dead fingers
  America's 1st Freedom, from the boys at the NRA
• Nickelodeon scores with 'Spongebob' 
  Cable recap: Marathon gives network boost in households    
• Too dear a price for UK's TV sports
  Failure of ITV Digital endangers football clubs

Web Shorts
Citysearch rejiggers its site
As users whine, Yahoo nixes personal ad fees
Google asks its users to be its lab rats
Everyone's playing games online
House OKs kids-only internet domain

Tuesday, May 28, 2002

• Ziff tubes yet another magazine
  News: Net Economy follows demise of Smart Business
• TV news is going soft again
  Television: War? What war? Try this new bunion treatment.
• '24,' and such a great start . . .
  TV review: Tacked on second half sputtered. Here's why.
• Users still won't pay for content
  New media: One hope is to bundle services at low monthly fee
• Airing your message in doctors' offices
  Out of home: Nationwide TV network offering health programs

Web Shorts
U.S. Army's recruiting via a computer game
Busted: Africans behind frozen assets scam
Study: Folks won't pay to play online games
Oops! Navy recruiter site falls to smut pirates

People
Y&R's Ann Hayden elected chairperson of BPA International
Jackie Dryden promoted to SVP at Bates Southwest
Cable Neuhaus to editor in chief of Folio magazine
Chuck Ross appointed publisher and editorial director of Electronic Media

Wednesday, May 29, 2002    

• NBC's Brian Williams will replace Brokaw
  Television: Takes top anchor slot in 2004 after transition
• Cable claims shift in news viewership
  CNN: We're taking them away from networks
• Radio's latest slippage in ratings
  Steepest drops for  adults18-24 and teen girls
• Yes, really, Gene Simmons Tongue
  Magazines: New title from Kiss bassist. Look out, Martha.
• Internet's recovery began at darkest hour
  New media: Fourth-quarter 2001 saw pickup, even with 9/11

Web Shorts
Klez dubbed the most potent virus ever
Yahoo jettisons overseas auctions
FBI: Expunge Pearl videos from your sites
African entrepreneur launches online trading
Antiabortionists publish photos of patients

People
Diane Frank joins MPA as SVP of marketing
ABC news reporter Steve Walsh dies of leukemia in Denver

Thursday, May 30, 2002     

• Osbournes take MTV to carpet cleaners
  Television: Bizarre re-up deal a strong-arm win for Mrs. O
• Why, yes, attack of the Maxim clones
  Magazines: Meet the second--and lesser--wave of imitators
• Fox antics fail to stump NBC
  Ratings recap: Sputters to season's end with celeb boxing
• Web's making us feel healthier
  New media: More Americans look to internet for health info
• Unilever's mega mega TV deal
  London: Signs four-year $460M ad pact with Britain's ITV

Web Shorts
Steffi Graf wins over Microsoft nudie pix tiff
Spammers take heat in NY and Pennsylvania
Email snafu led FBI to erase terrorism clues
Italy throwing Roman Colosseum online
Next on Geraldo: Victory in a libel suit

People
Duane Bruner has been named regional director of MediaCom's Latin American division 
Therese Corcoran has been named director of ad sales for the Hallmark Channel
James Woods will play Rudolph Giuliani in a USA Network biopic

Friday, May 31, 2002     

• Ultimate media game: Bop a rep 
  Tired of sales gas? Here's way to vent your ire.
• The real winner when Brokaw splits
  Television: It might well be ABC's Jennings, not Williams
• Payola rap centers on Clear Channel
  Radio: Receives big $s from promoters repping labels 
• Forget Ozzie. It's Lifetime and Nick.
  Cable recap: Big growth spurts for primetime and day leaders
• Web voters' M&M choice: Purple
  New media: Leads as top pick for new candy color. Pink sinks.

Web Shorts
What's on the menu tonight? Check Amazon.
The digital divide still yawns
Excite@Home auctions off office stuff
Armed forces use web to coordinate Afghan battles
Cybersex is cheating, at least Down Under

People
Greg Clausen has been named executive vice president and director of media,
a newly created position, for Cramer-Krasselt
Jamie Foxx and Chris Rock will team up to create a biographical film for HBO
about former Washington, D.C., mayor Marion Barry

Monday, June 3, 2002

• Robust TV upfront goosing up ad rates
  Television: Déjà vu 2000? No, but it's again a seller's market
• Little common ¢s behind Common Good 
  Magazines: Planned political title stirs memories of George
• Mental Floss, for feeling smarter
  Magazine delivers what you rightly ought to know
• It's Monday and the surf's up
  New media: This is the day of the week of highest web use
• Put your client in fans' hands
  Out of home: Passing out product samples at sports arenas

People
Hal Riney, the legendary West Coast ad man, retires
Steven Mandala rises to EVP for sales at Telemundo
Longtime NYT Times foreign affairs columnist Flora Lewis dies
 Doris Kearns Goodwin quits the Pulitzer Prize board

Tuesday, June 4, 2002

• Cable may surge in broadcast's wake
  Television: Upfront increases could climb to low double digits
• Nat Geo'll play with the big'uns
  Magazines: World, made over as Kids, will take advertising
• When good people happen to bad rooms
  Cable: Behind the success of TLC's 'Trading Spaces'
• Surfers fretting summer beach flab
  New media: Exposed: Angst-driven flight to diet web sites
• ITV folks up and form a trade group
  Technology: Why not? Anything to jump start the industry.

Web Shorts
USA Interactive swallows up ecommerce sites
Soccer fans rush World Cup web sites
NBA web site traffic bounces up, too
It's official: Napster files Chapter 11
Federal courts toss out kids and online porn law

People
Lew R. Wasserman, one of Hollywood's most powerful moguls, dies at 89
Mimi Dutta joins Business 2.0 as creative director, Damon Darlin as
senior editor, and Susan Orenstein and Andy Raskin as senior writers

Wednesday, June 5, 2002

• Hot TV upfront may help magazines
  Magazines: May, we advise. No guarantee $s will spill over.
• MSNBC's ongoing struggle for identity
  Cable: New chat format: Do viewers really want both sides?
• As economy thaws, new magazine titles
  Magazines: A few fall launches sat on shelf for better times
• Hoop finals give NBC more edge
  Ratings recap: Network finishes week with 10 of top 20 shows
• For rich, web's about money 
  New media: $1 million-plus sorts do more financial surfing

Web Shorts
NYTimes.com rolls out daypart ads
Ozzy Osbourne sued by online T-shirt vendor
Pop-ups get a patent, and advertisers will pay
Priest's wrestling web site is shuttered
Google teams up with AT&T

People
Jim Bellows signing on as editor of Common Good
Bob Woodruff is joining the ABC News anchor desk 

Thursday, June 6, 2002

• Belch! A fine upfront indeed.
  Broadcast networks crow over final sales #s
• Skip 2003. Think 2004 for full recovery.
  Media economy: Forecasters: 2001 bit a hole in media's growth
• At MSNBC.com, it's the blog age
  New media: With little fanfare its top writers start up weblogs
• Reality TV's cozy nest on cable
  Cable recap: WWE's 'Tough Enough' pins a win with 18-34s
• Media giants circle bankrupt Kirch units
  London: Seen as a nifty way to crack lush German market
• The folly of web reach and frequency
  Commentary: Someday they'll be measurable. Not today.

Web Shorts
Soccer: Why, we're hotter than the Olympics
Search site LookSmart sued by its advertisers
NYTimes.com will furnish job listings for Salon
AOL Time Warner CFO: Don't listen to Lehman

People
Hank Ratner rises to vice chairman of Rainbow Media
Jean-Paul Colaco becomes president of Radio Disney
Scott Willett joins Budget Living as associate publisher
Susan Greene has been named SVP and director of the Programming Institute at The Cable Center

Friday, June 7, 2002

• Conde Nast: It's a go for Teen Vogue
  Magazines: Actually, think pre-teen for coming bimonthly
• For Big Tobacco, the hurt is endless
  Feature: Foes only getting more militant over advertising
• Score: 0 for YES, 1 for Cablevision
  Sports TV: Game now belongs to the team without pinstripes 
• Redeeming Barbara Kopple's 'Hamptons'
  TV review: It's been trashed unfairly. Good, if short on verite
• It's beauty and the barbie on the web
  New media: Fewer surfers, and they're thinking outdoors

Web Shorts
New eBay software to crack down on fraud
World Cup mania dominates Lycos searches
People struggle with online privacy issues
Hotmail joins Yahoo in charging to forward email
UN publishes green-tinted online ocean atlas

People
Hunter S. Thompson: I turned down editorship of Rolling Stone
Alasdhair Willis quits as Wallpaper publisher
Errol D. Griffiths has been named director of ad sales for Disney Adventures and Disney Magazine

Monday, June 10, 2002

• Come fall, look for TV ratings to slip
  Forecast: Further broadcast erosion even with good shows
• A bigger rah for college sports?
  Sports TV: New cable network will aim for younger demos
• Rising stinkeroo over Nick gay chat
  Cable: Linda Ellerbee kiddie special on same-sex parents 
• On the destiny of web think-zines
  Interview: Talking with Slate's top editor, Jacob Weisberg
• Now, back-lit signs in stores
  Out of home: Put your client there. We'll even tell you how.

News Shorts
Big #s for NBC's Belmont upset
MTV Movie Awards soar to best-ever ratings
Columbia TriStar partners for Kirch Media bid
PM don't-smoke ads do more harm than good
Study: Interest in world news back to 2000-level

Web Shorts
Jupiter Media Metrix unloads Media Metrix
Harassment charge for student's web sex tale
Chia Pets brings ch-ch-charges against NeoPets
Just in time for the World Cup, Sports.com craters

Bob Pittman scooting AOL?
Fox’s Tony Vinciquerra adds CEO title and cable networks
Adam Ware is now a was at UPN
Stephanie Leifer is the new comedy head for ABC Diantha Wilson hired for sales at Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Tuesday, June 11, 2002

• Magazines' hurt goes unabated
  Magazines: Pages are down versus last May and year to date
• Big ratings dunk for NBA finals
  Sports TV: Nets trouncing draws more yawns than viewers
• Why hockey don't get no respect
  Sports TV: Great game, zero star wattage. Is it the helmets?
• Shonen Jump, the ultimate comic art
  Magazines: Japanese import title will target early teen boys
• Boffo web #s for World Cup 
  New media: In early days traffic outpaces entire Olympics

Web Shorts
Yahoo's giving itself a facelift
BMW internet movies return: 'The Hire, part II'
Crikey! Lots of Brits misdirect their emails
Web surfers don't go back to poor sites
Booted from eBay: Segway Human Transporters

People

Wednesday, June 12, 2002

• How Bonnie made Us her baby
  Magazines: Call it crass celebrity sniffing. Fuller's the best..
• The Nation: Easing away from the red
  Magazines: Readership is up for this old journal of the left
• 'Spy TV' giving NBC a surprise goose
  Ratings recap: Strong summer #s for 'Candid Camera' copier
• Reality summer: The good, the bad, the ugh
  TV review: Lots of bilge but ABC's 'Boston 24/7' has merit
• Ever-blossoming global web use
  New media: Geez, it's up again. Population grew 18% in year.

Web Shorts
Pottermania revs up with new online trailer
EBay makes itself user-friendlier with chats
World Cup virus hits the web
Itty-bitty web site racks up the hits
Terra Lycos starts music-download service

People

Thursday, June 13, 2002

• FHM's Needham will edit Rolling Stone
  Magazines: Jann's man to pump up ailing newsstand sales
• Brisk cable upfront getting underway
  Expect big bump in sales and some CPM increases
• Cable's munching on broadcast's viewers
  Ratings recap: 'Tis summer, networks' traditional snooze time
• Better way to judge a site's ad value
  New media: Forget reach. What matters is visitors' loyalty.  
• Wrench tossed at Univision radio deal
  Rival company suit charges heavy-muscle tactics

Web Shorts
World Cup reigns as most searched-for item
Geese geeks can follow a flock online
Consumer Reports hooks up with Newsstand
Biotech firm is victim of hoax news release
A hacker and a virus creator get together

People

Friday, June 14, 2002

• Buckets of ice water on media bigness
  A new mood: Rethinking wisdom of deregulation
• Dramatic slide in newspaper reading
  Key 35-49 demo sees greatest dip in daily habit
• 'American Idol,' so needlessly cruel
  TV review: Fox's star search show is a romp in humiliation
• World's bug-eyed over the World Cup
  Sports TV: Glued to sets around the globe. Here's some #s.
• Need a yob? Try the company.
  New media: Study finds Fortune 500 post on their sites first
• A cautionary note on ad spending data
  Commentary: They are only as good as the logic behind them

Web Shorts
E-books for free at your local library?
Once again, terror fears spur e-commerce
I'll be in the Humvee-buying line
Webby Awards seek short-speech entries
About.com guides expand suit over pay

People

Roberta Mell picked up by Fox as marketing chief
Cece Ryan heading People ad sales in the East.
Christine Guilfoyle and Michelle Bosso named ad sales managers in New York

Monday, June 17, 2002

• More blood at bloodied Primedia
  Ferm replaces Loughlin as consumer mag boss
• FCC plans mega rewrite of media caps
  Washington: Rolling together rules on TV radio and papers
• Body & Soul, yoga w/o the yoyos
  Magazines: Name change to shake off fringier associations
• When papers and TV pair up on the web
  New media: Local stations bring the power to promote news sites
• Giving your message smells and sounds
  Out of home: Light and movement too come with spectaculars
• Five TV tips from a wearied viewer
  Commentary: How not to wreck yet another network season 

Web Shorts
Teenager breaks into Pentagon computer
Was it the Left? FoxNews.com attacked.
Saccharine eBay Pez story is a hoax
Boeing signs British Airways for in-air net access
24/7 Real Media and Advertising.com settle suit

People

 Tuesday, June 18, 2002

• Slower pace for cable upfront
  Gobs of inventory, so fight is over CPM increases
• FHM's new editor: So why mess?
  Magazines: Gramling: No. 2 lads title is already on the right path
• Learn your critter's innermost feelings
  Cable: And now, from Animal Planet, the 'Pet Psychic'
• At last, cheaper media buying software
  Technology: Extra keystrokes but you save thousands yearly
• With summer, surfing for movies
  New media: Traffic boom at ticket sites over blockbusters

Web Shorts
Top web publications form ad partnership
AskJeeves: Doc, make me look like Google
Guild to Wash Postees: Don't write for web, please
Lycos introduces plain-English searches
Ticket scalpers hack World Cup network

People

• Dirty tricks suit by Climbing magazine
  Claims ex-publisher sabotaged title on leaving
• Boost for Fox from 'American Idol'
  Ratings recap: Otherwise is mostly Snoozeville for the networks
• When murderers go unpunished
  TV review: Dominick Dunne's expose of rich-folk justice 
• 'Let's protect our kids from bad TV'
  Interview: Talking with reformer Jim Steyer of Stanford
• The mainstreaming of instant messaging
  New media: Closing in on email among home and office users
• And here they are, the Webby Awards
  New media: Nods to very serious sites and the very weird

Web Shorts
Fires and football sought online
MSN says its ad sales abroad will soar
Salon doesn’t deliver Deep Throat in e-book
CNET dabbles in fee-based content
Citigroup bars NYers from using cards at web casinos

People

Thursday, June 20, 2002   

• Hey, Martha will weather this thing
  Her empire's strong, and an indictment seems unlikely
• USA finds new life in 'The Dead Zone'
  Cable recap: Signature series debut body-slams WWE on TNN
• Promising 'Dead Zone' needs footing
  TV review: Stumbles in developing character from King novel
• If you want clicks, go for rich media
  New media: Study finds users respond six times more often
• British invasion on toes of snails
  London: Expect no flood of U.S. deals as media laws ease

Web Shorts
Salon claims 39,500 paying subscribers
AOL peddles 99-cent Warner Music MP3s
Big brawny boxers spur traffic at HBO.com
AllTheWeb: Our index is bigger than Google's
Odds that can't be beat on a gambling site

People

Friday, June 21, 2002    

• With fall, a flood of new magazines
  Must be the ad thaw. Or something in the water.
• CBS: We'll share Victoria's Secrets
  Television: With viewers, that is. Picks up undie special.
• The slow death of classical music
  Radio: From Bach to rock: Fewer stations airing longhair 
• The art of mating, by the numbers
  Magazines: Editor's quest: Find a woman he can learn to love
• Web ads are up, but prices slump
  New media: Off 25% while volume's risen 77% from last May

News Shorts
ABC's 'State v.' gets dunked by NBC repeat
CNN reacts to Israel's bias charges, Ted's gaffe
Ford Focus gets front seat on Fox's 'Idol'
Morning race evens out as 'GMA' surges
JFK Jr. biopics in the works at TBS, CBS

People

David Fine joins Jungle Media as associate publisher.

Monday, June 24, 2002

• Forget that 500 channel universe
  Forecast: There's a big shakeout coming in cable 
• The Martha you don't want to know
  Book review: Slash-and-burn bio of a slash-and-burn doyenne
• Adam Vs. Eve, where sexes meet
  Magazines:Men's and women's lifestyle magazine in one
• High-speed users are, well, manipulative
  New media: More inclined to interact online and edit content 
• Write your client across the sky
  Out of home: Geez, now you can even type that message
• Give us a rest from J Lo, please
  Commentary: She sings and she plays the press like a fiddle

Web Shorts
Sturdy new Kremlin site bears 'hack me' sign
The dismantling of Jupiter continues
RealNetworks, now playing in Europe
Lower-than-expected net radio royalty rate
Attention Kmart shoppers: No more Bluelight.com

People

Tuesday, June 25, 2002

• Syndication rises in the upfront splurge
  Media economy: Sales up 18 percent, with CPMs rising 6 percent
• A better way to measure outdoor
  System to make it compatible with other media
• In Chung, CNN gets more than the news
  Cable: She's serious but also glam--which it needs
• Sex and violence reduce TV ad recall
  Researchers opine that results may lead to cleaner shows
• Western fires draw web's curious
  New media: Traffic is also up for golf and soccer, no surprise

News Shorts
Letterman and Koppel make nice in late night
AOL loses 2M cable homes as Advance retreats
Coming to VH1: (Shudder) 'The Minellis'? 
U.S. soccer waterloo sets viewership records 
MSNBC.com names Silberman interim editor

People

Wednesday, June 26, 2002

• A better ad year after all
  CMR: Total spending will rise by 2.5% in 2002
• Rosie steals away No. 2 People pencil
  Magazines: Toepfer's mission: Halt newsstand slippage 
• 'Crime & Punishment,' stirring trial dramas
  TV review: NBC reality series relies on actual dialogue
• Fox easing up on NBC in 18-49s
  Ratings recap: Credit 'American Idol,' also the top show for teens\
• 'Yes, I'll take that little gravestone...'
  Out of home: In the UK, ads can pop up in the funniest places
• Web-wise, women are the type As
  Commentary: Less patient than men with hard-to-navigate sites

 News Shorts
Fox's 'Idol' handily takes Tuesday
NBC devours Monday with 'Dog Eat Dog' 
Earth Times and Soap Opera Update go under
Irate country lovers give Peter Jennings the boot
Martha works out her anger on 'Early Show'

Web Shorts
Web giants tag their sites with kid-friendly seals
Russians saying nyet to some online activities
Will a Greenpeace web site be Exxon-erated?
Connery spanked for facilitating spam
SEC sues 17-year-old for fake stock story

People

Catherine Gale joins Draft Worldwide as managing director for South Asia
Thomas Huber returns to Smithsonian magazine as associate publisher


Thursday, June 27, 2002

• Egads! Big teen flight from wrestling.
  Television: Has the WWE bubble popped? Can this be?
• Users love AOL after all, it seems
  New media: Study refutes forecasts of mass defections
• Send Jann an issue of Blender
  Magazines: A likely model for Rolling Stone as it revamps
• Alas, cable feels a viewer slump, too
  Cable recap: 4% dip in primetime households for big networks
• Arabs to NY Post: Shut up, already 
  Newspapers: News dealers' boycott over pro-Israel stance

Web Shorts
Salon: We might not make it
Yahoo shutters two streaming services
Male wrestlers become web stars, at long last
Fantasy nerds rejoice: New 'Rings' trailer's online
Credit account acting funny? Check it out online.

People

Josh Kruter promoted to marketing director at Forbes
Deborah Steiner joins Bridal Guide as travel advertising manager
Jason Kellerman to CEO of LookSmart
Jennifer Palmer joins  Outside magazine as New England accounts manager
Whole slew of hires for Teen Vogue
Harold Morgenstern  named VP of ad sales for the eastern division of Discovery Networks
Ned Sands, Timothy Quane and Linda Flint take new titles at Bravo
 Amy Baker to VP of Discovery Solutions
Douglas Daury, Alison de Groot, Susan Jacobs and Brian Knowles have new jobs at Worth

Friday, June 8, 2002

• Soon, Lifetime, the magazine
  Magazines: New Hearst women's title sprung from network
• Tonight: War of the Wall Street Weeks
  Television: Debuting Fortune show vs. Rukeyser on CNBC
• HBO's 'The Wire,' true street grit
  TV review: Baltimore crime saga unfolds like a fine novel
• Don't blitz upscale newspaper readers
  New media: Less receptive to email pitches from marketers
• Hispanic surfers among the heaviest
  New media: Hooked on the net: Some even dream about it

Web Shorts
Gator gets sued by web bigwigs
Gov't warns of internet attack by al Qaeda
Vietnam cracking down on internet cafes
U. of Texas publishes Gutenberg Bible online
Polish investigators seek NASA hacker
Correction: Its auditors, not Salon, are pessimistic

People

Jerry Springer will host a new weekly talk show to be filmed in South Africa
Tom Sheehy has been promoted from local sales manager to vp and general sales manager for Fox Television's LA stations

Monday, July 1, 2002

• Figure a slow thaw for global advertising
  Media Economy: Zenith bumps up U.S. forecast but '02 still down

• Want really loyal viewers? Try Soapnet.
  Research: Edges out Lifetime for time spent with network

• Charge: Rupe in unholy pact with TV preachers
  Washington: Horse-trade to gain opposition to satellite merger

• Suddenly very popular College Board site
  New media: Some are curious over the recent revamp of tests

• Put your client before air travelers
  Out of home: Ads on in-flight TVs reach captive audiences

People

Tuesday, July 2, 2002

• House Beautiful editor gets bounce
  Hearst names Mark Mayfield of Traditional Home

• Bowling, yes, the new cool sport
  Sports TV: No kidding. It's got glam--and young male viewers

• 'Odyssey 5,' worthy heir of 'X-Files'
  TV review: Showtime's sci-fi romp puts it on HBO's turf

• How Kelsey kicked sand in Vince's face
  Television: 'Frasier' star blocks 'WWE Tough Enough' filming

• Americans surf for July 4 escapes
  New media: Get-of-out-town mindset dominates the internet

Web Shorts
DoubleClick sells its media sales unit on L90
AOL Latin America shedding no-pay subscribers
Listen.com locks in Vivendi
RealNetworks launches fee-based gaming
Hindus use the web as a prayer tool

People

Patricia Oppenheimer named marketing director of  G&J’s Parents Group.
Jane Bancroft Cook, the largest family shareholder in Dow Jones, dies at 90
David Nevins to president of Imagine Television

Wednesday, July 3, 2002

• Kiss of death for Yahoo! Internet Life
  Magazines: Ziff yanks plug on ad-challenged consumer title

• CBS basks in glow of repeats
  Ratings recap: Big #s for 'CSI,' 60 Mins.' and 'Raymond' reruns

• Hispanics lead in entertainment toys
  New media : DVDs, PDAs, home theaters and digital satellite

• Have a very cool and unfrantic 4th
  No, this is not a story, just our best wishes. See you all on Monday.

Web Shorts
Search sites: We do label sponsored results
Factoid: 40 percent of Britons are online
Keanu fans rejoice: New 'Matrix' trailers are online
Another round in the fight over Sex.com
Babes and train wrecks are top searches

People

Monday, July 8, 2002

• Smaller TV stations dropping local news
  Television: Hard to believe but many markets are over-served

• Ten TV shows that ought to be on DVD
  TV review: Our critic's choice of the best over 50-plus years

• For men who love bicep babes
  Magazines: American Curves: Hard-muscled pretty girls

• Some World Cup sponsors took a bath
  Sports TV: Unofficial ones who bet on player endorsements

• Drop your client into shopping carts
  Out of home: Handing out samples at supermarket checkouts

People

Tuesday, July 9, 2002

• Things get hotter in Martha's kitchen
  Magazines: Ducks show as probe seeks broker's phone tolls 

• Something good to say about TiVo
  Research: Ads viewers who do watch lead to high share of sales

• Growing hopes for pro bike racing
  Sports TV: Challenge is to make it more appealing to Americans

• Adbusters, poking back at advertisers
  Magazines: Title of ' subvertisements' spoofs mainstream ads

• 'Wave the flag, boys, and sign here'
  New media: Fumes of war draw web hordes to military sites

Web Shorts
EBay snaps up online payment service PayPal
Yahoo, as promised, launches a redesign
Dot.com downturn may be in reverse
Hackings rise at power company networks
Florida sheriff's page poached by pornographers

People
Kevin Coyne leaving Bates
Jody Bilney joins Charles Schwab as chief marketer
Kurt Schramm tapped as SVP of sales at Endai
Big changes as Meredith for Jeannine Shao Collins, Daniel Lagani, .Geraldine Rizzo and Alain Begun
Ellen Cooper heading PR for Court TV
Daniel Barnathan has been appointed executive vp sales, marketing and promotion for Fox Box

• Uh oh, baseball strike talk again
  Sports TV: Players clashing with owners over revenue plans

• NASCAR zooms Fox to a first in 18-49s
  Ratings recap: Pepsi 400 pairs with 'Idol' to zip ahead of  NBC

• Ms. toughens up to reclaim its old glory 
  Magazines: Latest facelift will emphasize investigative reports

• Post 9/11, traffic spike to local papers' sites
  New media: Web-edition readers are big online spenders 

• Brit ad market stinks a little bit less
  London: Forecast: '02 spending will be down but by less

Lauren Corrao named SVP for programming and development for Comedy Central
Shelly Sumpter  to VP for talent for Nickelodeon and Nick Records
Bill Scheft, Letterman scribe, jumps his column from ESPN magazine to Sports Illustrated
Tracy Wood is the new editor or Ms. 

Thursday, July 11, 2002

• Oops! Less rosy view of ad spending.
  Media economy: McCann's Coen cuts '02 growth to 2.1 percent

• The daily newspaper will not--not--disappear
  Newspapers: Study predicts that readership slide will ease 

• TBS's shaggingly good summer
  Cable recap: 'Austin Powers' spree gives it a primetime lead

• Yes, folks will pay for content
  New media: Or rather some folks, and happily, it appears

• In defense of clutter
  Commentary: We thrive on sorting through it, truth be known

Web Shorts
A quiet Fourth of July on the web
WWF loses a round over its domain name
Web casinos hurt by eBay's PayPal purchase
Silly couple, you can't sell your baby's name here
UK employers can workers for web abuse

People

Jeff Hopkins to regional ad director for American Profile magazine
Scott Tobin has joined brand solutions firm TAG as director of interactive media

Friday, July 12, 2002

• At last, magazine ad skid is easing
  June pages down only slightly from a year ago

• Viewer plunge for the networks
  Television: Primetime share at all-time low. And going lower.

• How to lose friends at Conde Nast
  Magazines: Must-read insider book skewers sham of its glam

• 'Worst-Case Scenario' is exactly that
  TV review: How dull: Reality TV meets instructional video

• July 4 flight from the web
  New media: Surfers find better things to do over long weekend

People

Three move up Mediaedge:cia San Francisco Amanda Rabinovitch, Sam Huston and Nicole Lefmann
Anamary Pelayo to senior lifestyle editor of Latina Magazine

Monday, July 15, 2002

• Imminent scoot for AOL's Pittman?
  Perhaps a better question: Why is he still there?

• 'Tonight, it's Phil to your left  . . .'
  Cable: Donahue debuting liberal rant-athon on MSNBC

• Oprah puts lash to German fetish title
  Magazines: Wins lawsuit over right to O magazine name

• Women magazine readers open email
  New media: More receptive to web marketing messages

• Ice is nice, so chill your client
  Out of home: Put a message on 10 lb. bags from the store

People
Matthew Roberts to marketing chief at Conde Nast Corporate Group
Gigi Volk named Western sales director at Budget 

• Savior steps forth for Oxford American
  Magazines: Little Rock publisher is buying Southern lit title

• Cable upfront dribbling to new record
  Will likely pass 2000 sales but with flat CPMs

• 'Sorority Life,' less than arousing
  TV review: Where are the cat fights? The binge drinking? 

• Way to serve local ads on digital cable
  Technology: New software eliminates conversion to analog

• Hit movies draw web hordes
  New media: Ticket sites thrive on summer 's blockbusters 

Web Shorts
Yahoo teams up with rich media ad makers
DrKoop, what remains of it, is sold
Noise off at Earth Summit web site
China tightens controls over internet publishing
Minnesota Supremes uphold free speech on web

People
 At Time Inc.,  Alison  Fried joins Time.com as general manager, Joshua Macht is named
 managing editor of Time.com, and Susan
Green  Roberson becomes Time Group financial director.
 Steven Tann to SVP  for creative affairs at New Line Television

• Returning Donahue walks over CNN's Chung
  Cable: But MSNBC talk host lags well behind O'Reilly

• Ad slump bows the Financial Times
  London: Cutting costs, but still vowing to push expansion

• Fox streak broken by All-Star slump
  Ratings recap: Controversial game was also the least watched

• Deflated hopes for digital video recorders
  Research: One worry: Nuisance suits by Hollywood types

• Web growing more colorful
  New media: Ethnic users are on the rise, led by Hispanics

Web Shorts
Lycos 50: Viva le Lance, say web surfers
Accounting scandals drive FuckedCompany traffic
Yahoo complies with China's net censorship
Web radio stations are fighting new royalty rule