With the television industry slogging through the worst economy in decades, the broadcast networks put their best foot forward at the upfront, then braced for long negotiations with media buyers and advertisers. “I’m surprised by how normal everything felt,” said one veteran buyer, noting the presentations...
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With Fox preaching stability in its lineup, its upfront presentation was reminiscent of last year’s. The main thing upsetting the sense of déjà vu was that this year’s presentation at New York’s City Center and party afterwards at Central Park’s Wollman Rink were held on the opening night of the broadcasters...
Despite the ailing economy, baseball is being very, very good to television networks that carry the games. With Opening Day on April 6, sponsors are lining up for the Great American Pastime. “Regular-season baseball sales are holding up very nicely,” said Fox Sports President Ed Goren. “In this environment...
Fox’s on-air promotions team has quietly opened a new front in TV’s ongoing war against digital video recorders. With little fanfare, the network in recent weeks has started sprinkling its commercial breaks with what it’s calling “TiVo-busters”—spots designed to be effective even when viewers use a DVR...
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Ad sales executives at two major television broadcasters said they’re not alarmed over second-quarter options that advertisers have to return commercials they agreed to buy during the upfront last year. Advertisers can return as much as 50% of the ad buys they commit to during the upfront. Normally they...
For television, there seem to be more questions than answers as 2008 comes to a close: How many industry pros will lose their jobs? How long will the recession last? How badly will the advertising market that is TV’s lifeblood falter? Wave after wave of anxiety-provoking headlines don’t help matters...
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Major League Baseball has moved back the scheduled start time of game six of the World Series so Fox can join CBS and NBC in airing a half-hour Barack Obama advertisement on Oct. 29, network and league sources said. A network spokeswoman confirmed the buy and said MLB had agreed to the network’s request...
Fox unveiled its Remote Free TV format with the premiere of “Fringe” Tuesday night, and movie companies took up the bulk of the limited commercial time available in the show. As the show began, Fox told viewers the program was being “presented with shorter commercial breaks,” and before most of the breaks...