The FCC Commish is finally ready to green light this deal — pending a few concessions.

What if Bruce Springsteen wrote Nielsen’s press releases?

Spring Fever gone bad: the sad tale of unrequited Web love online and on Wall Street.

Citing improvements in PPM samples among 18-34, Arbitron has green-lighted PPM as currency in eight markets. New York (including Nassau-Suffolk, Middlesex-Somerset-Union) Los Angeles (including Riverside-San Bernardino) Chicago and San Francisco (including San Jose) The September reports for these markets, using PPM data, will be available on October 8, 2008. At that time the company’s diary-based [...]

The Advertising Research Foundation adds nine new board members.

Will Multicast Save Local TV? Tune in to find out at 6 and 11.

Nielsen says millions of TV’s will go dark when television goes digital in February 2009. But will anyone notice?

Max Headroom tried to warn us about Google. But did we listen?

Board Games are anything but boring when Facebook, Parker Brothers and Microsoft are throwing the dice.

by Dave Zornow Published in Cynopsis:Weekender newsletter, 12/20/07 We downsized earlier last year moving from our home of 13 years to a smaller space. Packing necessitated a through re-examination of our family’s possessions. We found a lot of stuff we didn’t need, but we also found a few gems we didn’t know we had. Like [...]