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The Center for Digital Democracy and Commonsense Media have launched an online petition drive to get parents to push the Federal Trade Commission to stay the course on its proposed changes to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act enforcement regime.

They say the only way to compete with media lobbyists working to weaken the privacy laws is to enlist parents in the effort.

Dish Network and Gannett Broadcasting managed to hammer out a retransmission-consent deal last week, despite the satellite-TV giant’s contention that the broadcaster was trying to squelch its controversial Auto Hop ad-skipping technology.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The agreement, reached a few hours after the formal midnight Oct. 7 deadline passed (both sides agreed to a brief extension as talks continued) kept Gannett stations in 19 markets, including Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Denver; and Phoenix, Ariz., on Dish Network’s service.

WASHINGTON — The largest digital advertising group said it opposes a default “do not track” setting on Microsoft’s new browser.

Last February, the Digital Advertising Alliance got praise from the Federal Trade Commission and the Obama administration for agreeing to a browserbased do-not-track option that would allow Web users to opt out of behavioral advertising and would be respected across those participating in DAA’s selfregulatory program, which DAA pegged at about 90% of its members.

After taking in record levels of political spending in 2012, the TV industry's advertising revenues are expected to drop in 2013, according to the latest forecast from media agency Magna Global.

Magna says that the "hangover" that usually accompanies the year following an election/Olympic year will be stronger than usual for television, with revenue down 1.4% to $63 billion, Magna says. In the last non-political year, 2011, revenue grew a modest 1.3%.

This Technology, a provider of software solutions for dynamic ad insertion across multiple platforms, announced that it has hired three senior executives and opened an office in Denver.

The executives joining This Technology are: vice president of engineering John Mick, formerly with Cisco Systems; vice president of sales Sean Rooney, previously with Edgeware, BigBand Networks and Motorola Mobility; and vice president of software architecture Bryan Santangelo, formerly with Time Warner Cable.