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  1. Up til this week NFL Network had been averaging 4+ million viewers per game, well below NBC & Fox 19+ mill, CBS 16+ mill. & ESPN 14+ mill
  2. Business Week article on AT&T that a short video on a cellphone uses up as much bandwidth as 500,000 text messages.
  3. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/business/media/21pbs.html?_r=1&ref=business Very happy that Nielsen will be measuring PBS full time.
  4. TVWeek says CBS will debut "Undercover Boss" after Super Bowl. Reality show was well received by advertisers at CBS upfront last May.
  5. At 26% Rudolph Red-Nosed Reindeer the most popular Xmas TV special, followed by A Charlie Brown Christmas (24%), says Harris Interactive.
  6. 2010 will be when magazines makes a full assault on handheld devices moving past the web, with applications & tablets to name a few.
  7. Blizzard like weather in parts of the country will help boost ratings on the NFL Network tonight (Saints vs. Cowboys).
  8. Leslie Moonves announced Nancy Tellem, President of the Network TV Entertainment Group, will move to a new role in the Company next month.
  9. Oscar winning actress Jennifer Jones dies at 90. She won best actress for "Song of Bernadette" in 1943. Same year Casablanca was released!
  10. RT @irinaskaya: Please nominate my "Bottom Line on Facebook and Twitter" presentation for SlideShare Zeitgeist ’09 @http://bit.ly/773dtt.
  11. Super Bowl ads value have increased in recent eyars as people watch them online and spread virally.
  12. The two remaining undefeated teams play this week Thurs & Sat on the NFL network, available in 51 million homes less than half the country
  13. Saw the American Stories exhibit at NY's Metropolitan Museum of Art & it was fabulous-Moving to the LA County Museum of Art on February 28.
  14. http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=141100 Please read the Ad Age article on time shifted viewing by Brian Steinberg
  15. Very happy that Nielsen will keep "live only ratings" (no time shifted viewing) as one of the audience streams for local TV.
  16. With 2 weeks left, US box office receipts at $9,798 million, record high. Could reach $10 billion by year end for the 1st time-boxofficemojo
  17. Ad spending by category first 9 months of 2009 pharmaceutical +0.6%, telecom +0.4%-automotive -30.8% & financial services -23.7%. From TNS
  18. Consumer Electronics Association forecasts that E-Book sales will increase from $317 million in 2009 to $2.1 billion in 2013
  19. Big day for DVD's with Hangover & Inglourious Basterds released today. Industry sales headed for its 2nd straight subpar year tho.
  20. 5 of the 10 most time shifted shows thru Nov 2009 air on Thursday night—Grey’s Anatomy, The Office, The Mentalist, Survivor & FlashForward.