Arris Posts Flat Q2 Sales
Turner Tours 3D Links
McPherson Attorney Addresses Rumors of Impropriety
WNBC Content VP Burns Shifts to KNBC
Dingell To Genachowski: Abandon Title II Plan
Tribune Interactive Ups Anderson To SVP/Content & Integration
Survey: Most Smartphone Users Want Wi-Fi
WWDB/Philly Readies Spanish Sports Flip
Cars Could Connect To Web Via Smartphone By 2015
Radio One To Restate Recent Financials
CBS' Tassler Discusses Fall Lineup, 'Hip' New Hawaii Five-O
The Valley Girl Show Kicks Off Third Season
Versus Earns Big Tour de France Numbers
Steve McPherson Out at ABC
With NBCU, Comcast's Burke Eyes $10 Billion Ad Haul
A Number of Fast Food Adbertisers Are Ditching Local TV for National Cable
Why Advertisers Are Paying More and Getting Less
2010 Primetime Emmy Nominations: Complete List of Nominees
Full List of Nominations for the 2010 News and Documentary Emmy Awards
The Value of Baby Boomers
Americans Only Kind of Trust the Internet
The Story Behind the Publication of WikiLeaks’s Afghanistan Logs
What We Need is a “Slow News Movement”
Yglesias and McArdle Miss on Interchange Fees
Audit Notes: Moody's Market, Revolving Door, Tables Turned on Zuck
Changes to USPS Periodical Content Rules Affect Publishers
Conde Nast Announces Senior Leadership Changes and Plans for Growth
Affordable Mail Alliance Calls on Postal Regulatory Commission to Dismiss Postal Service Rate Hike Request
Time Inc.’s iPad Problem Is Trouble for Every Magazine Publisher
North American Spine Society Selects Ascend Integrated Media To Launch Event Media Campaign For Annual Meeting
Skyhorse Takes Arcade for $548,000
ABFFE Elects Two New Board Members
Comings and Goings: July 28, 2010
'Tinkers' Sells 100,000 Copies
Borders Signs Deal with Wi Fi Advertising Company
TheStreet and Newsweek to Share Content
Esquire to Launch in Malaysia
Analyst: Global Online Ad Spend at $61.8 Billion
SPIN and AMEX Deliver Sponsored Concert Via Facebook
Bargain Basement Kindle: Amazon Offers $139 Model
Pac-10 Commissioner Envisions a Premier TV Channel
Capital New York Plies Tough Market With Earnest Journalism

Agency Chief Gets Earn-out, Spreads Wealth to Employees

Online Ad Industry Assesses Latest Call for 'Do Not Track' List
Profit down at Vocus but sales spike
MWW poaches Herrick from Kaplow
Harry & David pick Harrison & Shriftman
Shelter Our Sisters hires director of PR
Edelman wins AOR task for Latin Grammys
David Kenny Lands at Akamai
WPP's 24/7 in CEO Shuffle
Black Eyed Peas Tour With Bacardi, BlackBerry
Publicis Sees Income, Revenue Surge
J&J Conducts 'Pre-Review'
Home Page Improvement
Facebook to Advertisers: Get More Social
Brooks Brothers Hosts Neckwear Revival
Jordan Gets Comfortable With Hanes (Again)
H&R Block Taps Fallon as Lead Agency
The Cloud's Possible Impact on Hosting Firms
Apple Updates Desktop Mac Product Lines
Most Data Breaches Perpetrated by Cyber Gangs
Enterprise Wi-Fi users at Risk?
Dell Serves Up Security Options for SMBs
Zynga Confirms Softbank Investment. They’ll Confirm Google Investment Later
Zynga issued a press release tonight confirming the more than month-old news of an investment by Softbank - $150 million - and are announcing a joint venture to "develop and distribute social games across Japan."
Zynga didn't talk about the other $150 million they took from Google in connection with a partnership over the new Google Games property. Although they soft-confirmed it to the New York Times in a recent article about the company.
Zynga has raised a whopping $519 million in venture capital, including that chunk from Google. Here's the press release:
HTC Beefs Up Management Team But Loses A Top Executive


Lost In Val Sinestra: A Mesmerizing Movie Trailer Featuring Your Facebook Friends
Double rainbow awesome. There's no other modern way to describe this.
I won't spoil it too much, but whatever you do today, visit this website and select some of your closest friends from your Facebook graph when prompted. You won't be disappointed.
Motorola Shipped 2.7 Million Smartphones Last Quarter, Phone Sales Down 6% YoY
Motorola has just announced its financial results for Q2 2010, reporting total sales of $5.4 billion, which is slightly below what it recorded in the same period last year. Earnings came in at $162 million or $0.07 per share, compared to GAAP earnings of $26 million or $0.01 per share in Q2 2009.
Zooming in on its Mobile Devices unit, Motorola reported sales of $1.7 billion, down 6 percent compared with the year-ago quarter.
The company shipped a total of 8.3 million handsets last quarter, 2.7 million if which were smartphones - its line-up consists of 12 such devices, including the Droid and Droid X.
Lovefilm, The Netflix-Of-Europe, Signs Deal With Widevine For Multi-Platform Play
Lovefilm, the Netflix-of-Europe, looks set to beef up its multi-platform play via a newly signed agreement with DRM and adaptive streaming technology provider Widevine.
The deal will see the US-based company become Lovefilm's "preferred provider of digital rights management and video optimisation solutions", enabling the video subscription service to continue to break out from its 'DVDs by post' legacy into the video-on-demand market, ensuring that its digital content is "playable on many new devices."
New Droid X ad laughs at Apple's bumpers
Netflix delights studios with big checks
Verizon users outpace iPhone users in data usage
Climate capsules for a changing world (photos)
Eco-idea du jour: Shrink-wrapped people
U.S. Military Learns to Fight Deadliest Weapons
Let the Little Guys Get In on Pre-IPO
Photoshop of Horrors: Readers Show BP How It's Done
Amazon Strikes Back at the iPad With New, $140 Kindle
July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA Born in Wake of Russ Moon
Getting 'Low'
Old Spice Guy Cast in Jennifer Aniston Film
Far From Normal
It's On at Comic Con: 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'
Shaquille O'Neal Serenades Justin Bieber at Phoenix Show
Frank Sinatra Musical 'Come Fly Away' to Close
Billboard Bits: New Michael Jackson Music in the Works, Jessica Simpson in Talks with 'Idol'
Avenged Sevenfold Gunning For a Possible No. 1 Debut
EMMYS: Q&A With Supporting Comedy Actor Nominee Ty Burrell
Ty Burrell isn’t quite an overnight success. It only seems that way. He had been working steadily in Hollywood for nearly 10 years before shooting to the next level this past year with his career-defining role as the cluelessly hilarious dad Phil Dunphy on the freshman ABC comedy hit Modern Family. He found out on July 8 that he’d earned his first Primetime Emmy nomination for supporting comedy actor, one of three noms for Modern Family in the category that features Burrell's co-stars Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Burrell also be competing against Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men) and Chris Coffer (Glee). Burrell, who turns 43 on Aug. 22, spoke with Ray Richmond for Deadline Hollywood about his big break on Modern Family, his Emmy nomination and the prospect of selling funny T-shirts.
Deadline Hollywood: How does it feel to be co-starring on the “It” comedy of the moment?
Ty Burrell: Well, it’s really kind of surreal. A year and a half ago, my wife and I were sitting in our living room trying to decide which chair we could burn to cook dinner. I had an actual plan to print funny T-shirts and sell them. I was down to that and bake sales. Now, I have this. It’s truly unbelievable.
DH: I hear that you so didn’t expect to get ... Read More »
EMMYS: Producer Credits Still Controversial
It’s an anxious annual guessing game – the vetting of producers for the outstanding series Primetime Emmy Award nominees. Now it’s nearly complete inside the Academy of TV Arts & Sciences, with those who are ruled ineligible notified sometime this week. The Academy has aggressively cracked down on the producer lists submitted by nominated series contenders since about 2000, with the joint goals of weeding out the undeserving and capping the producing team’s size. Though there appears to have been a certain moderating of its stance by the Academy over the past couple of years.
Previously, the caps on the number of individual producers who can be nominated for a comedy series (11) and drama series (10) were viewed throughout the industry as arbitrary and punitive. This year, the program producer maximums are based, according to the 2010 Primetime Emmy Rules and Procedures, on “the average team size of eligible producers in the category over a prior five-year period.” But that still seems too random.
A catalyst in diminishing the TV Academy’s producer-vetting zeal can be traced to 2007 when 30 Rock writer/co-executive producers David Finkel and Brett Baer, and The Office writer-producer-costar Mindy Kaling, were bounced from the producer rosters for Emmy eligibility in the comedy category. Vigorous appeals resulted in the reinstatement of all three that year. But accusations of an Emmy bias against writer-producers underscored the difficulty that dogs the Academy when assessing ... Read More »
Sky To Become HBO’s Home In Britain
The pay-TV giant has struck an exclusive output deal to be the only place to watch HBO shows from now on. Boardwalk Empire, Martin Scorsese’s series about Atlantic City gangsters, will be the first show to air through the deal in the autumn. Future HBO shows airing exclusively will include Game of Thrones and Luck, executive produced by Michael Mann and starring Dustin Hoffman. The next series of HBO shows such as Entourage and Big Love will also air exclusively on the channel.
The output deal also gives Sky on-demand rights to hit HBO shows such as The Sopranos and Six Feet Under.
Sky is throwing huge amounts of money at programming. It wants to get away from the downmarket image it’s saddled with. Many early adopters lived on council estates – think housing projects – peppering the skyline with satellite dishes. Sky is pulling strenuously upmarket. It’s just announced that it’s taking over ITV’s prestigious arts programme The South Bank Show. And it’s pouring big money into original drama such as Terry Pratchett TV movies and adaptations of crime author Martina Cole.
This year, Sky will spend £1.7 billion ($2.7 billion) on content – most of it on movies and sports rights though. By contrast, ITV will spend £1 billion, Channel 4 £550 million and Channel Five £165 million.
Meanwhile, BSkyB has just announced its fourth-quarter results for the ... Read More »
‘Lumières, Caméra, Action... Merde’
This morning’s Daily Mail carries an amusing story about Carla Bruni, First Lady of France, flubbing her cameo in Woody Allen’s latest 35 times. Bruni, a top model before she married President Sarkozy, committed that most basic acting error of looking straight into the camera. Zut! Even I know you’re not supposed to do that. All Bruni had to do was walk into a grocery store clutching a baguette. Allen is currently shooting Midnight In Paris on location. Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard and Rachel McAdams star.
Matt Blank Channels His Inner Rock Star
I came across this story about Bon Jovi in the Daily Mail. It is accompanied by 2 photos illustrating the longevity of the New Jersey rock band. The caption on the first photo reads: Rock Gods: Bon Jovi at the Monsters of Rock Festival in Castle Donington in 1987. The caption on the second pic says: Still going strong: The band in New York last year. Just one problem -- in the second photo, band members David Bryan, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Tico Torres are flanking Showtime CEO Matt Blank at last year's premiere of Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful. Bon Jovi has been a quartet ever since former bassist Alec John Such left in 1994. Maybe they've finally found a fifth member.

Two partners with one vision
Drama showrunners keep a tight grip
Mark Wahlberg: The star as multi-tasker
Bloody good shows
Venice reveals competition titles
Homer Simpson to join Cheech Marin in comedy team
Exclusive ‘Jersey Shore’ season 2 sneak peek (video)
5 ways ‘The Office’ can carry on without Steve Carell
Turnover is an issue that affects every office. But when it comes to "The Office," NBC has pretty big shoes to fill with the departure of Steve Carell at the end of the coming season.
Nonetheless, NBC plans to soldier on without its star. Thus begins the guessing game: What big name will the network bring [...]
Angelina Jolie: ‘I’m very concerned’ about the people of North Korea
Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea -- Angelina Jolie says she's worried about the people of North Korea, particularly the persecution defectors face when repatriated to the reclusive state.
Jolie was in Seoul on Wednesday to promote her latest action thriller, "Salt," which opens with a scene that takes place in a North Korean prison.
Jolie, who serves as [...]
Obama visits ‘The View’ crew (video)
If you were expecting breaking news or shocking personal revelations, President Barack Obama's visit to "The View" was bound to disappoint.It was a rather tame conversation that ranged from what the Obamas have been up to this summer (a brief vacation in Maine) to his outlook on the political front (nothing he can't handle). [...]
Strand strikes US deal for Uncle Boonmee with Match Factory
Tender Son, Le Quattro Volte continue deals for Coproduction Office
Mirovision sells The Housemaid to IFC
Icon takes UK rights to Rare Exports from Kinology

