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AP source: Carroll not yet leaving USC for Seattle (AP)

Admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:21:51 +0000

AP – A league official with direct knowledge of the coaching search says the Seattle Seahawks and Pete Carroll do not have an agreement despite widespread reports.

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Tribune365, thinking beyond newspaper circulation

Admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:22:40 +0000

Monday’s newspaper circulation numbers please no one who makes their living from selling papers. That’s evident when you look at the top 25 dailies by circulation and see that the best performance came from The Wall Street Journal, which rose less than 1 percent. Considering that advertisers use these numbers to determine where to spend their money, there is little reason to rejoice.

Tribune Co’s two largest papers, the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, both posted steep declines on Monday, but the company is urging advertisers to look beyond numbers that it considers less relevant than they were before the Internet. Instead, it wants them to look at how many people they can reach through Tribune’s diverse lineup of papers, websites and television stations.

To make this easier, Tribune has started “Tribune365,” a “multichannel sales solutions group providing customized marketing programs to advertisers looking to reach consumers across a variety of media platforms.” (More on what this means — in English — below.)

“We want to change the conversation around both how we sell and how people perceive newspapers.” Print circulation,” said Vincent Casanova, Tribune’s senior vp of publishing operations “just doesn’t tell the whole story… The objective is to change the conversation from a narrow look at topline circulation results to a broader discussion of the power of newspaper advertising and how to deliver results.”

For Tribune365, that means no longer selling ads to national buyers through a bunch of different sales teams that sell different kinds of ads for this or that part of a paper or this or that part of a website or TV station.

Tribune365 President Don Meek cited a recent ad campaign for big-box retailer Target, which set up one of a 16,000 square-foot “pop-up store” in Chicago (Those are the temporary stores that spring up in cities for a few days at a time, sell a bunch of stuff, and move on):

“We were able to put together an integrated program on WGN, WGN-TV, the Chicago Tribune, RedEye, Hoy… The only thing we couldn’t deliver was the outdoor bus shelter advertising on Michigan Avenue. Not only were we able to provide real estate and promotional support, it was also a fully integrated ad program. They said it was one of the most popular programs that they ever did.”

Here’s another thing that ought to appeal to advertisers, thanks to AdAge’s article on Monday that includes a section on Tribune365:

Big newspaper companies are also looking at putting all their data about their readers, in print and online, to work for marketers. Tribune’s new Tribune365 unit is planning to introduce a universal registration system for all Tribune sites this year, with universal registration for mobile visitors in 2010. “We are getting such a fine degree of detail in terms of targeting that we will eventually be able to target a physical product to a household address, a digital product to the digital user in that household and a mobile product to the mobile user in that household,” said Don Meek, president of Tribune365.

Admin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:18:16 +0000

My goodness, it’s October 25 again! Longtime readers of this blog know that’s the day we update you on news about famous people with seals.

It’s just in time, too, because my folder marked “Seals and Celebs” is overflowing.

Let’s see. From a couple of days ago we have actress Pamela Anderson posing with a person dressed as a seal. And, from last month, here’s supermodel Heidi Klum and her husband Seal, the musician, attending something or other.

Oh yes, and here’s a three-year-old picture of Spanish King Juan Carlos and Russian President Vladimir Putin with Spain’s Royal Seal.

Whew. That about does it until October 25, 2010.

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Combo left: Actress Pamela Anderson poses with a person dressed as a seal as part of PETA’s protest of the Canadian seal hunt at Queen’s Park in Toronto, October 23, 2009. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

Combo center: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (L) and Spain’s King Juan Carlos smile under the Royal Seal during a traditional welcome ceremony at El Pardo Palace, near Madrid, February 8, 2006. REUTERS/Sergio Perez

Admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:58:44 +0000

AP – CC Sabathia, pitching on short rest, matched zeros with Scott Kazmir through three innings in Game 4 of the AL championship series Tuesday night as the New York Yankees tried to take a 3-1 lead over the Los Angeles Angels.

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