The media have compared the crisis over alleged steroid use by Major League Baseball players to the so-called Black Sox scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were banished from the game for allegedly throwing the 1919 World Series.
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Demand for Digital Skyrockets – Census.
Factory sales of MP3 players will rise from $424 million in 2003 to nearly $6 billion in 2007, according to projected sales. Additionally, sales of digital television sets and monitors for the same period are estimated to increase from $8.7 billion to $26.3 billion.
Teens and Social Media.
Content creation by teenagers continues to grow, with 64% of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engaging in at least one type of content creation, up from 57% of online teens in 2004.
Awareness of Digital TV Transition grows – substantial Consumer Education still needed.
There’s growing awareness of the nation’s February 2009 transition to digital television by TV broadcasters, yet the group of Americans with the lowest level of awareness about the transition includes those that are most deeply affected – households that receive television programming exclusively “over the air.”
The 2008 Presidential Election – Census.
Every four years, voters head to the polls to elect our nation’s president.
The process begins with a series of primaries and caucuses in the winter and spring, and ends with the November general election. To mark the start of the 2008 presidential election season, the Census Bureau has culled the following facts from previously released statistical reports.
ImpreMedia acquires Rumbo Newspaper Network in Texas.
ImpreMedia has acquired Rumbo Spanish-language newspaper network in Texas with newspapers in 3 of the nation’s top 10 Hispanic DMA’s, Houston, San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley.
3i partners up with Grupo PRISA & Godo in Union Radio.
British private equity firm 3i is to build a 16.2 percent stake in Spanish radio group Union Radio, paying owners Grupo PRISA and Godo 225 million euros ($324 million) to do so.
Televisa and Univision will go to court on alleged breach of Program License Agreement.
The Honorable Philip S. Gutierrez, U.S. District Judge in Los Angeles, has denied Univision’s
Motion for Partial Summary Judgment. Univision sought a judgment from the Court that its claimed breaches of the long-term Program License Agreement between the two companies were not material and therefore not subject to termination by Televisa.
Batanga reaches Unique Users milestone.
Batanga announced that they have surpassed 3.4 million unique users per month as of November 2007.
