July 2010
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Rupert Murdoch, Neel Shah, and the Short Pants →
NewsCorp, where every day is April 1st.
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Fred's Tumblr Scraps: "Positioning" MTV. 1987. →
A master class on branding.
Positioning MTV: Music Television
Throughout most of the 80s, our original, in-house, MTV creative team had established all the original vocabulary (written and visual) for the channel. In April 1983, Alan and I resigned and set up Fred/Alan as the media’s first “branding” consultancy and advertising agency. Bob Pittman was a smart and shrewd competitor; he...