Buffalo News | August 25, 2005
- Movie studios wondering where filmgoers went this summer can rest assured of one thing: For the most part, those missing Americans weren't glued to the broadcast networks.
- Among the advertiser- friendly demographic of adults ages 18 to 49, the slide was even worse, off 10 percent according to figures from Nielsen Media Research.
- "The fall is the time when broadcast comes out with new scripted stuff, but summertime is when cable does it," said Jack Wakshlag, chief research officer at Turner Broadcasting, which includes TNT.
Backchannelmedia | August 29, 2005
- WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- George Foreman Enterprises, Inc., formerly known as MM Companies, Inc., today announced that NASDAQ has, at the company's request, changed the company's trading symbol on the NASDAQ Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board from MMCO.OB to GFME.OB.
- The Company announced on August 17, 2005 that it had entered into a series of definitive agreements with former world heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman allowing the company exclusive future use of his name, likeness, and personal services through the assignment of his intellectual property.
- The discussion of forward-looking information requires management of the company to make certain estimates and assumptions regarding the company's strategic direction and the effect of such plans on the company's financial results.
Business Wire | August 26, 2005
- Nautilus, Inc. (NYSE:NLS), a leading marketer, developer and manufacturer of branded health and fitness products, is introducing a new concept in treadmills that gives consumers the opportunity to design a treadmill that best suits their fitness requirements.
- The customized treadmills will be available exclusively at specialty retailers throughout North America beginning in the fourth quarter of this year.
- Nautilus Sport Series treadmills met with enthusiasm among the more than 300 Nautilus fitness dealers who attended a first-ever kickoff meeting for the upcoming fall and winter fitness season.
Chicago Tribune | August 26, 2005
- Aug. 26--The most important eight minutes of Marc Kopoian's life could take place starting at 1 p.m. Friday on a stage in Gateway Park just outside Navy Pier.
- That's when Kopoian, a sales executive from Chicago who was laid off 7 1/2 years ago, gets the chance to pitch his new pet-care kit to as many as 87 million households on the QVC shopping channel.
- "I've never been on TV before.
Dayton Daily News | August 26, 2005
- For years the buzzword in the consumer electronics industry has been "convergence."
- Sling Media of San Mateo, Calif., has created a fascinating convergence product, the Slingbox, that makes it possible for a user to access home television programming from anywhere in the world where broadband Internet access is available.
- The Slingbox is 10.6 inches long and 4 inches wide, so it's small enough to be fairly unobtrusive on a computer desk or sitting on top of a video component such as a cable or satellite tuner box.
Business Wire | August 26, 2005
- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c23299) has announced the addition of Home Shopping in the United States to their offering
- The home shopping market and the industry that serves it are changing, and much of the change is a result of the Internet.
- While three of the home shopping channels covered in this report have experienced modest to healthy growth recently, Internet home shopping has expanded at a current-dollar rate of over 22% a year for the past four years, steadily gaining market share at the expense of mail order/catalog, television home shopping and direct selling.
Anchorage Daily News | August 26, 2005
- Aug. 26--The Federal Communications Commission has ordered satellite TV providers Dish Network and DirecTV to make Alaska's local network-affiliated channels available to their subscribers throughout the state by early December.
- Dish Network two years ago started beaming local Anchorage stations to its customers in and around the city.
- Starting Dec. 8, both are required to make local channels available to all their customers under an order the FCC issued this week.
Xinhua News Agency - CEIS | August 27, 2005
- WPP predicts China's ad market will grow to be world's NO.
- LONDON, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- China will overtake all advertising markets save the American one within three years, said Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, the world's second-biggest advertising group.
- Sorrell told Times Saturday that China's advertising industry is propelled by the rapid economic growth and the Beijing Olympic in 2008.
BBC Monitoring Media | August 28, 2005
- Text of press release by the US organization Consumer Electronics Association on 19 August
- Digital television (DTV) sales continue to soar as demonstrated by the latest factory-to-dealer sales released today by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
- According to CEA, 3.8m units have been shipped from January through June of 2005, bringing the total dollar sales to date to more than 4.6bn US dollars.