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...understand what bad times these are for the TV-ad-selling business today, you need only have sat in Radio City Music Hall Monday afternoon and listened to NBC Entertainment President (and former "Today" producer) Jeff Zucker explain what "good times" these are for the TV-ad-selling business. In 1999 and 2000 - those halcyon, bounteous days when dot-com pioneers bestrode the land like giants, tossing multi-million-dollar ad buys to networks like parade marshals tossing penny candy to children - NBC was strong and rich and could laugh at itself. Its upfront presentations were like Friars roasts, with...
...upfront presentation this year was almost entirely irony-free. Beginning with a cornball montage of classic moments in the network's history, NBC kept a relentlessly upbeat message (remember: "Survivor" did no harm on Thursday night! None!) that bespoke the nervousness throughout the industry about the soft ad market. Execs invoked the golden days of big-network television, reaching a ludicrous apex when West Coast president Scott Sassa likened "Weakest Link" host Anne Robinson to Groucho Marx. At times, NBC's pageant of self-butt-kissing even contradicted itself, as when Zucker's old "Today" colleagues came on stage...
...upfronts, which take place this week, are the New York City presentations where the broadcast networks unveil their fall schedules, mainly for the delectation not of the critics but of ad buyers, to whom they try to pre-sell advertising "up front," on the basis of what the networks annually promise will be the greatest season of public entertainment the world has known since the days of Aeschylus, and generally ends up with John Goodman playing a gay guy and trading insults with Orson Bean. Held in tony venues like Radio City Music Hall, the presentations involve elaborate stage presentations...
...unusual because it's the first time a high-profile, ad-hoc committee has been formed and included students," Gusmorino said. "It's a tangible way in which the UC will be able to affect this area of policy-making at the University level. It's definitely exciting...
First elected to the Board of Overseers in 1996, Oldenburg has served on many of its committees, including the executive committee, the ad hoc committee on women undergraduates and the committee on humanities and arts, of which he is the chair...