MCN - November 23, 2008

If ad-sales executives thought the economy was tough over the last few months, here’s advice for 2009: Hang on. The local cable ad-sales business, after years of impressive double-digit and high-single-digit growth, hit a brick wall this year and the prospects for 2009 aren’t much better, according to a survey of executives conducted by Multichannel News.

• Content
• Taking Off the Gloves for PPV Bout

• Customers
• Travel's on 'FlightDeck'
• Exploiting 'Bad Girls’

• Finance
• Shopping ShopNBC Around
• Churn Rise Predicted At Comcast

• Newsline
• Raising 'Lincolns’ for Abe
• Broadcasters See Retransmission Cabal
• Comcast Wideband Hits Northwest
• For the Record
• Dish Adds 'Mexico' Package
• Law Judge Gives Cable a Respite
• Senate OKs Analog-TV Extension
• Future May Be Less Televised
• ESPN Scores Deal for BCS
• Baseball Net Eyes More Live Games
• Coda
• Coda

• People
• People

• Platfoms
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• Translation Please
• Split the Node, or Do DOCSIS?

• Rules
• 'Safe Viewing Act’ OK’d
• Sanders Seeks Cheap Cable

• Special Report
• Sports Programming
• Playing the Online Field
• Switched Digital Video
• Taking Aim With TV Ads

• Through the Wire
• Through the Wire

• Viewpoint
• Access
• Deflation and Broadband Video
• Column
• No Anchovies, Please
• Talkback
• Talkback