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Univision, Disney look at English news channel

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:23pm MST

Univision and Disney are in negotiations to create a 24-hour news channel for Latinos in English, two sources close to the negotiations said Monday.
Eastwood Super Bowl ad for Chrysler turning into a political football

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:40pm MST

“Times when we didn’t understand each other … discord and blame …” Clint Eastwood was reading from a script during this ad for Chrysler on Super Bowl Sunday, but the words also can describe the fallout over the ad.

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Eastwood's 'Halftime' is top with msnbc.com users

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:00pm MST

Chrysler ignored some of the unwritten rules of Super Bowl advertising — be brief, be funny — for the second year in a row, but it didn’t matter to msnbc.com readers.

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Goldman CEO's side-gig: gay marriage spokesman

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:46am MST

Sunday's most surprising ad wasn't aired during the Super Bowl. It was a YouTube video posted by the Human Rights Campaign in which Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein declared his support for same-sex marriage.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:46am MST
As Facebook grows up, it courts Madison Avenue

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:23am MST

Until recently, Facebook's relationship with the advertising community was at best politely dismissive, at worst outright antagonistic. But now, the social networking giant is eager to work with Madison Avenue.
The cheap items that build billion-dollar companies

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:55am MST

By Charles B. Stockdale, 24/7 Wall St. Just because certain products have a low price tag does not mean they cannot sell for billions of dollars. In fact, some of the cheapest products make the most money for their companies. 24/7 Wall St.
Some ugly lessons learned from the Super Bowl ads

Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:41am MST

Did you see the same Super Bowl ads that I did? If so you're probably like me now planning for the end times. Those 30 second messages paint a pretty dark picture about what is expected of us.