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Family trips can be enjoyed by both parent and child provided a thorough planning and preparation are done. Parents should be flexible and understand what their babies will tolerate. They are advised to take more baby clothes and less toys and food, since these are easily available.

Local station affiliates are learning that it pays off to air a local morning talk or breakfast show instead of a national show. The local shows attract viewers interested in news and entertainment with a local flavor to them. Morning shows are becoming more common in many markets, including Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles, Houston, and Chicago. Fox's 'Good Day New York' surpassed all of the national news shows in the New York market in Nov 1994, and helped convince programmers that the right show could be a hit., Could it be that all news, like politics, is local? CBS This Morning, Good Morning America and Today apparently aren't satisfying local stations the way they used to. A growing [...]

The Fox Inc and New World Communications deal will create much turbulence in for the network affiliates. Fox will drop some affiliates and contract with New World affiliates in some cities. The former Fox affiliates may choose to contract with CBS or one of the other Big Three broadcasters. They may also choose to contract with either Warner Bros or Paramount. A city by city listing is given that forecasts the options of affiliates in those cities., Last week's cosmic conjoining and clashing of media billionaires Rupert Murdoch, Ronald Perelman and Laurence Tisch was thrilling, but the Fox-New World assault on CBS (and to a lesser extent, [...]

Sunbeam TV Corp., which created the first successful youth-skewed nightly newscast at WSVN in Miami, has moved the concept to WHDH in Boston. It's working. A well-coiffed blonde with the [...]

Early in the afternoon on Thursday, Oct. 15, on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, a heaving throng surged toward the doors of the Barnes & Noble bookstore on the corner of [...]

IN THE ADVERTISING BUSINESS, CREDIT FOR CREATIVITY IS ALMOST ALWAYS GIVEN TO THE people who create the ads. The people who create media plans, which are often as crucial to [...]

Who is the toughest negotiator? Which agencies and buying services have the most knowledgeable buyers? In this survey, media sellers offer the penetrating opinions of the loyal adversaries who must [...]

Cosmetic and fragrance advertisers are expecting solid growth next year. They project their budgets to grow in 1993 and the print market to be the biggest beneficiary of their good [...]

Adweek's 1992 media all-stars and their award categories include David Verklin, media director of the year; Louis Schultz, president's award; Tony O'Haire, regional media director; Hugh O'Brien, planning; Irwin Gotlieb, National TV; Beth Daly, spot TV; Jack Sullivan, local media; Russell Gilsdorf, print; Deborah Solomon, research; and Tyler Schaeffer, business-to-business. Each executive is profiled., David Verklin, Corporate Media Director at Hal Riney & Partners, is an imposter. 'I'm really an account guy in media clothes,' he explains. Verklin, a boyish-looking 37, is describing the [...]

The media floors at many of the nation's biggest ad agencies share one common characteristic that, to someone who works in almost any other business, is startling. There is whiteness. [...]

Controversy over watch-and-win contests continues to cloud ratings Everybody wants something for nothing. Just witness the lines at stores that sell tickets to any of the state lotteries. Or watch [...]

The Federal Communications Commission's lack of interest in enforcing local marketing agreements (LMAs) raises concerns among advertisers and syndication companies that monopolistic practices are being permitted. LMAs allow two stations to operate as a unified business entity, but when the same owner owns several stations in a local market, local businesses wanting to work with one station often find themselves squeezed to work with both., Last September, Harte-Hanks Communications contacted the Federal Communications Commission and requested an investigation of the sale of KRRT-TV in San Antonio, Texas. KRRT, then a Fox affiliate, had been sold [...]

Ask a dozen top TV executives to name the biggest issue that is reshaping the business and you'll get a dozen different answers. Not only that, but the biggest issues [...]

New World's massive affiliation switch to Fox sent a shockwave that is reverberating through the media industry--even at stations in markets that have remained untouched by the deal. 'When Rupert [...]

Imagine you're the youngest sibling in a family of voracious eaters. Each time you try to get your fair share it seems someone gobbles it up first. You get frustrated. [...]

The automobile industry looks to slow recovery in 1993, with media spending expected to increase only in specific areas of opportunity, according to senior level client and agency media directors. [...]

NEW YORK -- All the way around, the outlook for out-of-home is as bright as Times Square. Trends driving the sector in the way of technology, consumer habits and measurement [...]

NEW YORK -- Radio has fallen on hard times-- not as hard as local newspapers, it must be said. But in recent years, radio has remained one of the slowest-growing [...]

Best use of radio Rain or shine. In Seattle those words are the mantra for how people live their lives--and plan their media campaigns. To mark the 25th anniversary of [...]

in retrospect, it looks like a no-brainer. Of course people would be interested in a 24-hour weather cable channel. Weather is always changing. It influences our most basic decisions. Why [...]

America Online users in the Baltimore area got a heavy dose of early-morning politicking in the weeks leading up to last week's primary elections. And it was hard to miss: [...]

Ahh, the life of a chief executive officer: corporate takeovers, Lear jets, cocktail parties. 'Would that it were,' most ceos probably would say to that statement. In reality, the driving [...]

Quincy Jones Entertainment has made a deal to eventually acquire a new Kansas City TV station that has not yet signed on the air. The FCC last year issued a [...]

Away from the glare of the ABC and CBS deals last week, NBC made a move of its own by acquiring station group Outlet Communications. NBC's successful 11th-hour bid, valued [...]

Two stations in Tallahassee, Fla., are battling for the market's Fox's affiliation. Ventura Entertainment Group is trying to wrest the Fox affiliation away from WTLH to WTWC, an NBC affiliate [...]

Company has low profile in new rep-firm venture with United TV United Television Sales, a new rep firm, opens for business today with a far different structure and role for [...]

Los Angeles-based Argyle Television Holdings II this month took over the management of the financially beleaguered Buffalo NBC affiliate WGRZ, installing its own general manager, Eric Land. WGRZ's current owner, [...]

ABC affiliate KSFY in Sioux Falls, S.D., is being sold to Fox-backed SF Broadcasting for $40 million, according to sources with knowledge of the business affairs of the station. Atlanta-based [...]

NBC's timing was perfect. Late last month at its affiliate meeting the network asked its stations--as they basked in the Hawaiian sun and the glow of a sweeps victory--to more [...]

To most people, the Smith Brothers are a pair of guys with long beards who sell cough drops. To broadcasters, the Smith brothers are the four shrewd and secretive sons [...]

Providence Journal's KHNL in Honolulu last month unveiled the country's first tapeless newsroom when it launched its 9 p.m. newscast with with an all-digital news operation from Avid Technologies. Unlike [...]

ABC has found a new home in Providence, R.I., signing a 10-year affiliation deal with Freedom Communications' CBS affiliate WLNE, a VHF In March, WLNE learned it would lose its [...]

The scramble for affiliates set off by the groundbreaking Fox--New World Communications deal last May sent station values soaring almost immediately, particularly in large markets. Now, smaller markets--roughly Nos. 70 [...]

Following a year of constant change in the TV-station business, one thing stayed the same at this year's NATPE: Stations came more to meet with other TV execs, chew over [...]

Viacom, looking for relief from its $10-billion-plus debt load while it reorganizes its media holdings, is considering selling its five TV stations. Smith Broadcasting and leveraged buyout firm Jupiter Partners [...]

Paramount Station Group's deals to sell both KRRT in San Antonio, Texas, and WLFL in Raleigh, N.C., have come under FCC scrutiny as parties in both markets have requested an [...]

Capital Cities/ABC's acquisition of TV stations in Toledo, OH, and Flint, MI, has prevented NBC from establishing a VHF presence in these cities. NBC affiliate WTVG and ABC affiliate WJRT cost Capital Cities/ABC $155 million, a multiple of over 11. ABC's total station ownership is now 10, two less than the FCC limit., When Cap Cities/ABC last week agreed to purchase two VHF television stations from SJL Broadcast Management--ABC affiliate WJRT in Flint, Mich., and NBC affiliate WTVG in Toledo, Ohio--it squelched NBC's [...]

In a small victory for NBC, the FCC last week delayed SF Broadcasting's purchase of NBC affiliate WLUK in Green Bay, Wis. by extending until Nov. 2 the date for [...]

As the dust begins to settle in the first three markets to make affiliation swaps triggered by the Fox-New World Communications deal--Cleveland, Phoenix and Kansas City, Mo.--the ratings picture is [...]

Through two station-acquisition agreements, CBS has plugged the holes in the two largest markets left without CBS affiliates in the wake of the Fox-New World deal. However, the stations--independents WGPR [...]

Radio advertising is enjoying a boom, and the trend will probably continue for most large stations in 1995. In the first half of 1994, radio advertising revenues were growing at 11% annually thanks to strong local retail and political ads. In 1995, the political ads will end, but politics will help in another way. The expected passage of the Radio Ad Leasing Disclosure Act could mean up to $50 million more in ads for autos and financial services. A Westwood One merger with Unistar will shake up the market., Mergers and legislation make a good thing better Radio, the original electronic mass medium, is coming off one of its best years ever, and it looks like 1995 could rove [...]

A large-scale affiliation swap among local TV stations has resulted in a shortage of news department talent. Rupert Murdoch's Fox network made a deal that caused stations in 25 markets to switch affiliation, but after five years of trimming news department payrolls and air time, some of those stations had little news programming. Some stations had no local news department and need one fast, and others need more news programming. Since May, 1994, as many as 2,000 news jobs have moved or opened., Affiliation switches trigger free-for-all to sign news anchors, producers Not long ago in the TV station business, there was a glut of news talent. Anchors and producers, resumes and reels [...]

Rupert Murdoch continued his station and affiliation acquisition binge last week with a deal that largely will settle the TV business' affiliate-swapping frenzy in one market--Philadephia. In its second station [...]

A station-affiliations flap has erupted in Tampa, Fla., one of the first markets that had settled on new lineups following the Fox-New World deal in May. An FCC petition filed [...]

CBS finished last week with one in the win column and one in the loss column. While the planned merger with QVC that would have put Barry Diller at the [...]

CBS last week picked up the first of what is likely to be several new UHF affiliates in the continuing scramble for stations following last month's Fox-New World Communications affiliations [...]

Young and Rubicam's (Y&R) media department devised a successful media campaign to increase Xerox's share of the small-business market for copiers. In 1992, Xerox had only a 13% share of the small-business market due to its image among small-business owners as a distant, unapproachable entity. Y&R developed a marketing relationship campaign called 'Take Another Look at Xerox' based on sponsorship of local sports teams and merchandise giveaways that dissipated Xerox's image as an outsider among small-business owners., Xerox is a name so pervasive in the copier business--and in American society--that its lawyers must safeguard its copyright by sending out letters admonishing those who use xerox as a [...]

Fox and New World Communications' watershed station affiliations deal last month is causing confusion for station executives, who will be selling advertising inventory in an entirely different slate of network [...]

SPOT TELEVISION While it may be a bit early to proclaim a new golden age of television, broadcasting ratings have stabilized, TV-station sales are fetching decent prices and it appears [...]

The battle between CBS and its affilates over NFL football escalated last week, as two stations that CBS banished from its affiliate list promptly signed on with Fox, thus keeping [...]