Top advertisers may warn U.S. networks on pricing - May 11, 2004 04:14 PM (Reuters) By Michele Gershberg NEW YORK, May 11 (Reuters) - Top advertisers will fire warning shots next week in a showdown with U.S. television networks over buying commercial time, but their discontent over rising prices and falling ratings won't translate yet into a major shift of budgets, ad executives and media watchers said. As a group, in surveys and through their media buyers, top ad spenders expressed outrage over steep price increases commanded by the top four networks during last year's upfront marketplace for buying commercial time. ... - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41356780 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.