BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA retained its place at the top of the Box Office this week. The Disney comedy took in roughly $17.5 million dollars, besting the Leonardo DiCaprio-Russell Crowe war film Body of Lies.

SOUTH PARK had its

Here's what's supposed to happen. The digital transition takes place, new 4G networks spring up all over, tons of VC money is aimed at advanced advertising and personal media consumption devices, audiences fragment into unbelievably small markets, but technological advances in metrics and accountability take the art of marketing...

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The Dow Jones took another dive yesterday, falling 678.91 points to 8579. Media companies are hurting, as Viacom and News Corp each...

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IBM reports that its third quarter net income is up 20% over this time last year. International Business Machine's took in $2.8...

With the recent collapse of three of five major American financial institutions, a war going into its sixth year, an election that is far from predictable and a housing crisis that has thousands struggling to pay their mortgages, it's no surprise that Americans are worried about the future. To make...

Back in March 2007 I received an email from a friend telling me about the plight of Eric Volz. If you remember, he was sitting in a Nicaraguan jail accused of murdering his girlfriend. Although this...

Last week Senator Obama was channeling Aaron Sorkin when he challenged Senator McCain to a debate about which of them had the temperament and judgment to be President of the United States. Parts of his speech read like a page out of Sorkin's pre-The West Wing movie script, The American...

While the cable networks are doing their best to cover every aspect of the activities at the DNC, they simply can't cover everything. And, certainly nothing but the biggest names are covered by the broadcast nets. However, there is one place where you can see and experience absolutely everything you...

The first quarter of 2008 was the most successful in Apple's history. The company boasted revenue of $9.6 billion and a net profit of $1.58 billion, compared to revenue of $7.1 billion and a net profit of $1 billion in the third quarter of 2007. But its second quarter results...

It's 11:45am on a sunny summer day in New York. In just a few minutes, promises will be broken, years of trust will be betrayed and a high-value customer and millions of dollars will be lost.

This is the story of a very expensive customer loyalty program that worked flawlessly...

DISH Networks Q2 profits were up. Unfortunately, 25,000 subscribers went missing. The company blamed the drop in subs on weak economic conditions, aggressive promotional offerings by their competition, the heavy marketing of HD service by their competition, the growth of fiber-based pay TV providers, signal theft and other forms of...

In case you haven't noticed, the business of broadcast television is in trouble. Ratings have been trending down year over year for more than 30 years and there's no end in sight. Most pundits blame this audience fragmentation on outside forces like the proliferation of cable channels, DVDs, video gaming,...

Kung Fu Panda is doing a great job for Paramount this summer. As of today, the movie has grossed $196,680,294. It is still playing on 3,347 screens nationwide and after five weeks in release it is still number five behind Get Smart, Wanted, Wall-E and Hancock. So imagine how surprised...

"The early education plan will be paid for by delaying the NASA Constellation Program for five years ..." So opines a document entitled, "Barack Obama's Plan For Life Success Through Education." This is not a new thought. The Obama Camp has been saying this for a while, but it just...

Unless you lead a very sheltered life, you have probably read all kinds of stuff about Apple's new 3G iPhone. Yes, the retail price will be $199 for the 8 GB model. Yes, that makes people who bought an iPhone on May 15th for $399 really mad. But they shouldn't...

Back in 1960 the skills required to become President of the United States changed forever.  That was the year that John F. Kennedy debated Richard M. Nixon on national network television for the first time.  When reminiscing about Kennedy's win, pundits love to cite that he was tanned, good looking,...

This week, FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin put some new spectrum up for auction. But there's a catch. The winner will be required to provide free wireless broadband access to 50% of America within four years and, cover 95% of the country within 10.

First, I want to offer a tip...

According to my tour guide, Beijing is a city of 18 million, which would make it just slightly larger than New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Philadelphia (the top five population centers in the United States) combined. According to her,...

I spent the afternoon today at CCTV headquarters in Beijing. Standing in Master Control, I could not help thinking that this was some kind of science-fiction fantasy movie. One program on all of the 19 free-over-the-air CCTV channels and a stark, white on...