ESPN extends new-media deal for baseball coverage (Reuters)
Prime-Time Metered Market Wednesday Ratings: NBC's Summer Olympics Steamroller Continues (Me... Mediaweek.com - -Ratings Breakdown: Once again, it is all about NBC, with the 2008 Summer Olympics from Beijing at a significant 18.0 rating/29 share in the overnights for the prime-time (8-11 p.m.) portion. Comparably, that beat the four competing networks combined by 75 percent. Here is the half-hour breakdown: Ratings Box: What's Hot/What's Not (Mediaweek.com) Mediaweek.com - The Tuesday, Aug. 19 installment of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing rose to a series high in total viewers (858,000) and key adults 18-49 (597,000). Comparably, that was an increase of 44 percent and 49 percent, respectively, over the prior week, and as much as 174 percent in total viewers over the year-ago telecast. TV Tidbits: Notes of Interest (Mediaweek.com) Mediaweek.com - Sci Fi Channel's Stargate Atlantis will conclude after five seasons next January, but the network will produce a two-hour movie to run after that and a potential big screen franchise could be in the works as well. Harbinger ups Cablevision stake to 8.1 percent (Reuters) Reuters - Activist investor Harbinger Capital increased its stake in Cablevision Systems Corp to 8.1 percent in the last week, making it the cable operator's fourth largest external investor, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday. Seinfeld to be pitchman for Microsoft (AP)
Barnes & Noble cuts year sales view and shares fall (Reuters)
Mexico's CIE in deal with concert giant Live Nation (Reuters) Reuters - Mexican entertainment firm CIE said it has signed a five-year deal with concert promoter Live Nation Inc, which has Madonna and U2 among its clients, to bring international artists to Latin American arenas. German publisher eyeing Reed magazines: paper (Reuters) Reuters - German publishing house Gruner & Jahr is interested in buying the trade magazines unit of Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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Reuters - ESPN and Major League
Baseball Advanced Media announced Thursday that they have
extended their new-media rights deal.
AP - Junior Mints, Yoo-hoo, Drake's Coffee Cakes, puffy shirts: These are all things Jerry Seinfeld has endorsed — at least in his alter ego on his classic sitcom. Now, add Microsoft software.
Reuters - Barnes & Noble Inc, cut its full-year
sales forecast on Thursday, blaming a troubled U.S. economy,
sending the shares of the largest U.S. specialty bookseller
down more than 3 percent.
