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Scripps Overhauls Web Ads; BusinessTargets Get Smaller, More Local

EW Scripps (NYSE: SSP), one of the rare newspaper publishers to report negative interactive ad revenues in Q2, is trying a quick turnaround. NYT has an overview of the Cincinnati-based company's plans, including altering the commission structure for online ads, reducing the reliance on convergent print/web ad sales and...

Tags: Advertisement, Online Advertising, New York Stock Exchange, EW Scripps, NYT, David Kaplan, Advertising, Marketing, Companies, Scripps, Media, Newspapers, E.W. Scripps Co.

News items 2008-11-03

Earnings: EW Scripps' Swings To Loss; Online Newspaper Revs Fall 12 Percent On Classified Upsells

With the first quarter that has EW Scripps (NYSE: SSP) reporting as a separate company from Scripps Interactive (NYSE: SNI), the newspaper/broadcaster said it will suspend its dividend payment to give it more flexibility as economic conditions worsen. As for Q3 results, EW Scripps swung to a loss from...

Tags: Revenue, Rev, Earnings, New York Stock Exchange, Operational Accounting, Finance, David Kaplan, Advertising, Companies, Scripps, E W Scripps, Media, Newspapers, Money, E.W. Scripps Co.

News items 2008-11-07

Industry Moves: EW Scripps; EA; NEA; Disaboom; CitizenHawk

-- E.W. Scripps: Broadcasting veteran Brian Lawlor has been tapped to lead the company's TV division as its SVP. Effective Jan 1, 2009, when Bill Peterson retires, Lawlor will oversee the 10 stations plus digital businesses. Since the beginning of this year, he has been corporate VP-sales for the...

Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Industry, Division, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Satellite Radio, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Amanda Natividad, Advertising, Marketing, Companies, Scripps, E W Scripps, Industry Moves, Social Media, Community, Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.

News items 2008-11-07

Additional Resources

Santa's pleading for more elves

HELP WANTED: Town of Santa Claus, Ind., desperately seeking dozens of kind-hearted volunteers with legible handwriting and a belief in the REAL North Pole. "Short and simple, we need more Elves," says Pat Koch, who put out the call this week because thanks to the Internet the...

Articles 2008-11-27

Bad economy hasn't hurt video-game sales

Well, we all know the economy is in the dumper and layoffs and foreclosures abound. Sounds like the perfect time to buy a video-game console and lots of video games, doesn't it? Well, actually, that's what a lot of consumers are doing. Despite the...

Articles 2008-11-25

Dependence on government has crippled the U.S. auto industry

How can you not feel that emptiness in the pit of your stomach as you watch our financial markets spin downward? The broad stock market indexes are down well over 40 percent since the beginning of the year. Losses are somewhere in the neighborhood of $9 trillion. ...

Articles 2008-11-24

Brian Austin Green is a prime-time veteran

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- "I'm old," Brian Austin Green jokes as he sits down for an interview. How can that be? This is the kid we all got to know as Donna Mills' son on the prime-time soap "Knots Landing" before he spent his...

Articles 2008-11-24

Obama staff tries to tone down Michelle

When in doubt, blame the media. That used to be an over-used conservative tactic. Now it's being adopted, apparently, by the Kool- Aid imbibing Obama fans who are so blind to the Obamas' flaws that they scramble mightily to find someone other than the Obamas to blame for these flaws....

Articles 2008-11-23

Redeemer becoming 'life coach'

How well I remember a dear Roman Catholic friend of mine saying to me, "you evangelicals are so caught up in your 'personal relationship with Christ' that sometimes you forget it's not all about you!" I'm guessing Michael Horton would agree. He's the author of the new...

Articles 2008-11-22

'I've an eclectic bunch of friends - and all my lecturers are dotty'

Diary of a Fresher After a tumultuous start, life here is beginning to settle down. The frantic jockeying for position in the first few weeks is over, and it's no longer acceptable to introduce yourself to random people or shamelessly ask for names. Socially, the...

Articles 2008-11-20

Often it's best just to move on

The mailbag is pretty full as we roll into the holiday season. Let's get to the most interesting questions of the bunch. Question: I have a T-series eMachine that won't turn on. I turned it off one night, and the next morning, nothing. I hired a technician...

Articles 2008-11-18

Values of people like Chick-fil-A founder could help rebuild America

I retrieve and open a large envelope from today's pile of mail. Inside is a press release announcing "Chick-fil-A Founder to Receive 2008 William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership." I discover that the Chick-fil-A founder is 87-year-old Atlanta businessman S. Truett Cathy. Reading...

Articles 2008-11-17

FoodNetwork.com scores leading traffic in October 2008 according to Nielsen Online

FoodNetwork.com continues to outpace other food sites remaining No. 1 in the category NEW YORK & KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Nielsen Online's recently released traffic numbers for October 2008 have put FoodNetwork.com on top of the Food & Cooking category for the 28th consecutive month. FoodNetwork.com finished October 2008...

Articles 2008-11-12

Negativism hinders efforts to enlist those qualified for elected

WASHINGTON - Whatever Sarah Palin's future in politics outside Alaska, she will go down as one of the most trashed and controversial vice presidential candidates in American history, a victim of some bad journalism, a negative atmosphere she helped create, her shallow qualifications and sabotage by those who chose her...

Articles 2008-11-11

Putting the political process above principle cost McCain dearly

John McCain has a knack for the bizarre. But he outdid himself, appearing on "Saturday Night Live" the weekend before Election Day to make fun of it all. It was evident from the polls that only a miracle could pull this election off for McCain. But the...

Articles 2008-11-10

Obama's win spells death of Old South

President-elect Barack Obama's win is so cataclysmically historic one knows not where to begin. First, his victory signifies the death of the Old South and President Nixon's infamous "Southern Strategy," which the GOP has used successfully for almost four decades to win presidential elections. When President Lyndon...

Articles 2008-11-09

Taiwan-China accords bode well for U.S., too

While Americans focused on the presidential campaign, historic talks between mainland China and Taiwan recently reached a successful conclusion. Beijing's top negotiator, Chen Yunlin, is the most senior mainland representative ever to visit Taiwan. His counterpart Chiang Pin-kung is equally senior. These commercial...

Articles 2008-11-09

Take quiz before choosing tile

Tile quiz Here's a quiz to help you determine what type of tile is best for your house: My living room and dining room are: A. Formal and lovely, used mostly for entertainment B. Casual enough for the...

Articles 2008-11-08

Consider standards before renovating kitchen

In the kitchen When building or renovating a kitchen, carefully consider placement of major appliances and counter space. Current standards call for a total of 158 inches of countertop frontage, 24 inches deep with at least 15 inches of clearance above to accommodate all...

Articles 2008-11-08

Transition of power is rarely seamless

We lead the world in a peaceful transfer of power from one president to another. Where we're not so good is in the details of actually handing that power over to a new team. Typically, the last of the 3,000 appointees who constitute the old president's administration...

Articles 2008-11-08