Anne Zehren BRADY’S BUNCH

Non classé - 20 fév 2011

They don’t need a fancy, high priced censor at CNN or Time. Just a good old fashioned city editor with a built in bleep detector.

Let’s hear it for Self editor Rochelle Udell! The current issue is the largest July number in the book’s 19 years carrying 90 ad pages. Year to date, publisher Beth Brenner informs me, pages are 6% ahead, 757 over 717 a year ago.

Tonight’s the big night out in the Hamptons at Southampton College where Rod Stewart headlines the annual “All for the Sea” concert funding maritime sciences scholarships. Sillerman of SFX Entertainment is chancellor of the college and its best fund raiser.

At Weight Watchers mag, publisher Jeff Ward increases frequency to nine times effective September. In honor of which he’s sending out ducats to a Yankee game later this summer for nine innings of baseball.

Those joyous photos of four year olds in the new summer ad campaign from JWT Chicago for client Oscar Meyer to run in People, TV Guide, Parents, Better Homes, Woman’s Day,, etc. are the work of top NY children’s photographer Jade Albert. Hot dogs and bologna! And that’s no baloney.

Ave atque vale, Sid Luckman. Loved the old pix in his obit with the leather helmet and no face mask. When Sid was on the cover of Life his senior year at Columbia, as the best quarterback in college football, the Chicago Bears signed him for $5,000 a year. His best year ever, 1950, he was paid $23,000.

Ashamed to admit the chauvinist in me cried out in mild elation at that Business Week rating of the top 1,000 global companies. Almost half (480) are American; only one in the top 10 is Japanese (NTT at No. 8).chin up progression

Bob Guccione Jr. and pals celebrate the premiere issue of his new mag Gear July 29 with cocktails at Exit Art in Manhattan. The issue hits stands August 4.

Publisher Anne Kallin Zehren says not only are ad sales strong but the first four issues of Teen People averaged 700,000 copies at newsstands alone.

PR topper Milton Kahn reminds me he’s relocated from Brooklyn to Santa Barbara. Hey, they’re both on oceans.

Forbes’ Jeff Cunningham (the group publisher who recently announced his “retirement”) writes, “my five corporate boards will keep me occupied . . . and I plan to make an announcement with an Internet/publishing/information company before Fall.”

Hearst magazines promoted four to VP; Christopher Lambiase of SmartMoney, Cynthia R. Lewis of Marie Claire, Risa J. Turken (licensing director), and Chris Butler, the group circ chief.

That big Modern Bride shakeup under new group publisher Doug Fierro has him bringing in a new publisher, Ilene Rapkin. She was at Conde Nast and previously worked for Doug at Food Wine.