Mediagazer: At Upfronts, TV Networks Woo Advertisers With Spectacles (Amy Chozick/New York Times)

10:40 AM ET, May 14, 2012

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

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Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:

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David Carr / New York Times:

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Amy Chozick / New York Times:

At Upfronts, TV Networks Woo Advertisers With Spectacles — This week, the biggest television networks will battle it out for their share of the more than $60 billion in advertising dollars spent by the world's largest marketers on television commercials each year. — The networks' weapons?

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Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
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Dylan Byers / Politico:

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Marilia Brocchetto / CNN:

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Jeff Himmelman / The Daily Beast:

Jeff Himmelman: The Storm Over My Ben Bradlee Book, ‘Yours in Truth’ — Jeff Himmelman has been raked over the coals in the two weeks since his authorized biography of the Washington Post legend was published. He asks critics to read the book before deciding whether it casts Bradlee in a “bad light.”

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

‘Rock Center’ IS On NBC's Fall Schedule — Great news for fans of NBC's primetime newsmagazine “Rock Center with Brian Williams,” the program is on the network's Fall schedule which was just announced this afternoon, and will be formally unveiled at tomorrow's upfront.

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Marc Tracy / Tablet Magazine:

New Site Aims for Mideast View, in English — After last month's talks between the P5+1 nations and Iran in Istanbul—the most substantial such negotiations in quite some time, whose limited success is widely credited with tamping down the war fever that was running high through much of the winter …