Hasta La Creative!

The competition for advertising dollars for the 2014-15 television season is in full swing with Gannett, CMT and Screenvision on the agenda for Wednesday.

The New York Times Company said its fourth-quarter drop in print and digital ad revenue was smaller than declines earlier in 2013.

Gannett, one of the nation’s largest newspaper chains, is expected to announce the expansion of a program where sections of its flagship appear within regional publications.

Jack W. Germond, the columnist who covered 10 presidential elections and sparred with colleagues on television’s “The McLaughlin Group,” died Wednesday morning.

A federal judge’s antitrust finding against Apple over e-book prices underscores how much the book industry has changed and bolsters the advantage held by the online retailer.

Gannett and the Tribune Company have recently purchased groups of TV stations in locations where political advertising can be highly lucrative.

The Associated Press reported that the Justice Department had secretly obtained the phone records of its offices and journalists, calling it a “massive and unprecedented intrusion.”

Efforts by major media companies to attract advertising dollars, once reserved for the spring, are already in full swing, with three held in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday alone.