Ron Lundy: Goodbye to a Radio Legend

Chances are likely most of you…especially those under the age of 40 will probably have no idea who Ron Lundy was…but if you lived in the NYC area and had spent anytime listening to Musicradio 77 WABC you know the name. Ron was one of the most popular djs on what was…without a doubt…the most [...]

Robert Raciti: In The Loop

Our good friend Robert Raciti did a spectacular job this past week on one of the financial panels at the Media Summit…so much so that the woman next to me asked if I happened to know him…obviously I did and the woman turned out to be Betty Liu…the morning news anchor on Bloomberg Television.
Following the [...]

Maria Bartiromo: 10 Laws of Enduring Success

We are pleased to announce that our next special event at Samsung will be “An Evening with Maria Bartiromo: 10 Laws of Enduring Success” on Wednesday evening, March 31st from 7p-9p at The Samsung Experience at Time Warner Center NYC
By: Gloria McDonough-Taub
CNBC, Senior Editor, Blogs
CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo is at it again – sharing her knowledge [...]

Comcast/NBCU Merger: It’s gonna be a tough ride!

FROM AP via Forbes
Feds pledge tough review of Comcast-NBC deal
Associated Press, 03.11.10, 12:58 PM EST
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are pledging a rigorous review of the proposed combination of Comcast Corp. and NBC Universal.
Christine Varney, head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, and Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said their agencies will examine [...]

Does anyone care what Paterson has to say

I received the following email from the Governor’s office in Albany. My question, does anyone really care what the Governor has to say?
Fellow New Yorker,
We are facing a fiscal emergency in New York State. When I announced my 2010-2011 Executive Budget proposal in January, we projected that our State faced a $7.4 billion budget deficit. [...]

Eric Bader: New Chief Strategy Officer at Initiative

congratulations to our good friend, and former panelist Eric Bader!
(from Media.asia.com)
Initiative appoints Eric Bader to newly created global role as chief strategy officer
by Kenny Lim
GLOBAL – Initiative has hired Eric Bader (pictured) to the newly created global role of chief strategy officer.
Reporting to Richard Beaven, Initiative’s worldwide chief executive, Bader joins its worldwide leadership team [...]

ABC Back On Cablevision As Talks Go On

from TVNewsCheck
By Karen Matthews
Associated Press, Mar 8 2010, 6:00 AM ET
NEW YORK (AP) — Cablevision and ABC were negotiating a deal Monday that tentatively ended a dispute over fees and restored millions of viewers’ access to the Academy Awards telecast in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut shortly after the broadcast began.
The two sides, who [...]

How To: Escape From Google’s Clutches, Once and For All

Interesting article from GIZMODO from my friend Marshall Sponder (via GoogleBuzz)
So you’re fed up with Google, and you’ve got a litany of reasons. You don’t even have to explain—I’m just here to help you crawl out from under the shadow of the big G, step by step.
You don’t have to be ready to commit to [...]

Uncorking Gary Vee…thanks to Victor Lee

My friend, Victor Lee joined us on Feb 17th for our event “Uncorking Gary Vaynerchuck…” and filed this great overview.
I attended SobelMedia’s latest event, an interview of Gary Vaynerchuk by journalist Ellis Henican of Newsday and Fox News on the evening of February 17, 2010 at the Samsung Experience at the Time Warner Center.
Gary Vaynerchuk [...]

FourSquare: What is the deal?

Many of you have noticed on my Facebook page that I have become somewhat of a FourSquare fan…but then you ask yourself…what the heck is FourSquare?
foursquare is a cross between a friend-finder, a social city-guide and a game that rewards you for doing interesting things. We aim to build things to not only help [...]

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