Chief Marketer Staff

• Coming in next month’s PROMO

  Fresh Look, New Start Fox Family Channel starts the biggest cable TV launch ever this month when it takes control of the former Family Channel. Fox is

• Agencies

  Britannia Cools Its Heels?

  Brits always claim to produce the best advertising in the world. Something about our quirky sense of humor and literate consumer base leads to the often-repeated

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  Kemmler’s Law

  Moments before becoming the first man ever to go to the electric chair, William Kemmler complained about his press coverage. “I’m bad enough,” he said.

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  Everywhere Merchants Want to Be

  Visa USA will give its retail partners magic for Christmas this year, part of an aggressive slate of consumer promotions designed to drive purchases in

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  R-E-S-P-E-C-T-What Does That Mean to Us?

  Demarcation lines have faded. Direct marketers are respectable at last. Almost as respectable as general advertising executives. Certainly as respectable

• Stuck in Test Mode

  The technology-ruled interactive marketing movement is in a state of hyperactive growth. Every time one looks at it is not only larger but has changed

• Deal Makers

  Steven M. Ross was promoted to executive vp and gm, licensing and merchandising, at Twentieth Century Fox. He will assume all global long-range planning

• Agencies

  Polk Appeals

  L. Polk & Co., Detroit, has appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court a decision that allows that state to withhold the sale of motor vehicle lists. On April

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  Catalog Sales on Rise: WEFA

  Catalog sales continue to grow at a faster rate than total sales to consumers and businesses in the United States, according to a recently updated study

• Detox for Discounters

  What is the worst word in the marketer’s lexicon? To me, it’s “discounting,” a word that is defined as “cutting the price,” but really means “incenting