Target Market News Bulletin

August 8, 2008

TV Ratings for Week of July 28 - August 3
"America's Got Talent" stays No.1 for second week; CBS is week's top network

(August 7, 2008) NBC's "America's Got Talent" posted its third week in a row at No.1 on the top 25 of most popular network TV programs with black viewers. It will be interesting to see how this love of competition programming translates to NBC's broadcast of the Olympic game next week.

CBS continued to be the most watched network...
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Ragan Henry, pioneering media owner of radio and TV stations, dies at 74

By Joseph A. Gambardello
Philadelphia Inquirer
(August 8, 2008) The son of a Kentucky tobacco sharecropper, Ragan A. Henry went on to become a Harvard-educated lawyer, a pioneering media mogul, an active participant in Philadelphia's civic life, and one of the region's richest African Americans.

Still, he maintained a modest public profile, and when he died July 26 at the age of 74 after a long illness, his passing went unannounced, just as he wanted.

Mr. Henry, of Merion, also directed that there be no funeral, memorial service or obituary after his death, the cause of which...
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NAMIC announces call for entries to its Fall 2008 Writers' Workshop

(July 24, 2008) The National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) is now accepting entries from writers of color aspiring to participate in the NAMIC Fall 2008 Writers' Workshop. Held in conjunction with the 22nd Annual NAMIC Conference, the two-day workshop will take place September 15-16, 2008 from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel in Manhattan.

A total of 15 writers of color will be selected to take part in the intensive educational forum...
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