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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/television/us-ad-spend-down-cable-syndicated-tv-gain-newspapers-b2b-mags-lose-6114/nielsen-ad-spend-growth-by-medium-1h08-1h07jpg/"><P>Advertising spending in the first half of 2008 declined slightly (-1.4%) compared with the first half of 2007, despite healthy advertising growth for several media and among some top advertisers, <A href="http://www.nielsenmedia.com/nc/portal/site/Public/menuitem.55dc65b4a7d5adff3f65936147a062a0/?vgnextoid=a471b18ecb17c110VgnVCM100000ac0a260aRCRD">according to</A> preliminary figures from Nielsen Monitor-Plus. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/television/us-ad-spend-down-cable-syndicated-tv-gain-newspapers-b2b-mags-lose-6114/nielsen-ad-spend-growth-by-medium-1h08-1h07jpg/"><P>Advertising on Cable TV underwent the largest growth, with an increase of 8.1% over the first half of 2007, while Spot Radio fared worst among the 19 media categories analyzed by Nielsen, declining 10.1%.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/television/us-ad-spend-down-cable-syndicated-tv-gain-newspapers-b2b-mags-lose-6114/nielsen-ad-spend-growth-by-medium-1h08-1h07jpg/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.marketingcharts.com/img/62BC7F35-CDA9-423A-82CE-0506CA86FCFD" alt="nielsen-ad-spend-growth-by-medium-1h08-1h07.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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