NBC sold out its 69-spot advertising inventory for yesterday’s Super Bowl, pushing total ad revenue for the event to a record $206 million – not bad in the middle of a recession. The Super Bowl is a premier advertising event with an U.S. audience of 100 million viewers, many of whom watch closely during game […]
Two unemployed Hoosiers have earned $1 million for creating the Super Bowl’s top-ranked commercial. Joe and Dave Herbert of Batesville won the third-annual Doritos “Crash the Super Bowl” challenge and earned high marks from viewers. Their ad features a man predicting free Doritos for his co-workers, then breaking a vending machine with a crystal ball. […]
Thousands of southern Indiana residents are still without power following last week’s winter storm. Vectren reports 20,000 outages as of last night, mostly in the Evansville area. More than 100,000 customers were left without electricity as a result of the storm. Vectren officials say most power should be restored by Thursday, though isolated outages could […]
Gov. Mitch Daniels today recognized three Indiana Department of Transportation workers who found more than $100,000 in an old tire along Interstate 70. The workers were picking up trash east of Indianapolis two weeks ago and found a wad of bills in an abandoned tire. They reported the discovery to state police, who believe the […]
Home sales in central Indiana continue to slide, declining 18 percent in the fourth quarter compared to the same period the previous year, the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors reported today. Units sold in the 13 counties tracked by the trade group dropped to 4,966 in the three months ended Dec. 31. All counties showed […]
Columbus engine maker Cummins Inc. said today that it has offered voluntary retirement packages to about 700 hourly employees in southern Indiana. The company will accept as many as 350 voluntary retirement applications, and most of the affected employees are expected to leave their jobs by March 1. “The demand for our engines and related […]
A top administrator at the University of Southern Indiana has been picked as the school’s new president. The university Board of Trustees on Saturday appointed Linda L.M. Bennett to replace school President H. Ray Hoops on July 1. Hoops is retiring after 15 years as president of the nearly 10,000-student school in Evansville. Bennett has […]
Despite year-over-year revenue gains and robust earnings, the economic downturn has finally caught up with the Indianapolis Indians.
The state’s technology initiative, TechPoint, is adding two categories to its annual Mira awards: health care IT and corporate
IT.
Indiana has its share of renowned dead writers, but the Indianapolis-Marion County Library Foundation is planning to recognize modern-day Hoosier scribes with a new and quite hefty prize.
Jim Tellus has been promoted to president and general manager of WTHR-TV Channel 13.
The not-for-profit Indianapolis Historical and Educational Foundation is planning a police museum in the first floor of an old warehouse along Pennsylvania Street across from Conseco Fieldhouse.
A group of volunteers who hope to open a home for pregnant teens will soon hire an executive director, thanks to a $25,000
grant from Women’s Fund of Central Indiana.
One locally owned retailer aiming for a New York City vibe was set to close and another has opened along Massachusetts Avenue
downtown.
President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus bill provides a big opportunity for the Indianapolis-based Indiana Health Information Exchange to spread its expertise around the country.
Saving money may be the bottom-line reason for reforming local government, but that’s only one of the benefits. Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard made that point clear Jan. 27 in a speech to the Rotary Club of Indianapolis, outlining a reform plan called Unigov 2.0 that emphasized efficiency, transparency and accountability. Ballard, the latest mayor to […]
