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CNBC has a long way to go to recapture the success of its bull-market heyday. Ad revenues last year were just $140 million, vs. $383 million in 2001, reports Kagan Research. Overall ratings remain depressed, even though onetime rival CNNfn went dark last year. And a new financial channel is expected at Fox next spring, so there is a sense of urgency in the place. CNBC, a division of GE's NBC Universal, has tried everything to reinvent itself, including going Hollywood. That failed experiment led to the cancellation of prime-time shows with hosts Dennis Miller, John McEnroe...
...thrilled when she reappeared at the station. I pumped my boss for details and found out her name was Mary Elizabeth Maxwell--but she went by the name Betsy--and that, as a recent graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, she had been hired to write ad copy...
...leisure industry, which is scrambling to reverse the trend. Expedia, for instance, is offering discounts on what it calls destination vacations--planned adventures like cave diving or whale watching. Universal Orlando theme parks is so concerned about the vacation deficit that it has created a tongue-in-cheek ad campaign called Have a Life, featuring mock executives thanking workers for sacrificing their vacation for the bottom line. Many hotels are touting luxury beds, Internet service and fourth-night-free deals. But with a vulnerable work force in a tight economy, many workers see vacation as an unaffordable luxury--and even...
...HUPD officers responded to a report of a past assault at Ad ams House. The officers determined a face slap had occurred. Both slapper and slappee were identified, and no criminal complaint was filed against either...
Gilliam is no stranger to conflict. His 1985 movie, Brazil, looked set to gather dust on the shelves until he took out an ad in the trade paper Variety publicly asking the studio boss, "When are you going to release my movie?" He needles the moguls, yet he needs them--and he hates that. "Hollywood," he says, "is run by small-minded people who like chopping the legs off creative people. All they want to do is say no." Yet he acknowledges his wayward streak: "I'm so perverse that I go the opposite direction of whatever's going...