"If it still gets a 19 share and a very significant premium-per-rating point, you'll have a successful show and a profitable show," said David Poltrack, a CBS research executive.
The Advertising Research Foundation is naming a longtime research executive at General Mills as its next president and chief executive, making her the first woman to lead the organization.
In a case brought this year, the government accused 13 people of passing around illegal information, including Morgan Stanley's former in-house counsel, a former research executive at UBS and several former traders at Bear Stearns.
Esteemed research executive at Seagram Philips Electronics and The Brain Group.
Amgen's executive vice president for research and development, Roger Perlmutter, although having academic experience as chairman of immunology at the University of Washington, was more recently a top research executive at Merck.
His father retired as a research executive for Southern Pacific in San Francisco.
Alex Turk, a senior research executive at ICM, said: "There are different implications for the two main Westminster parties.
"The industry is probably not thrilled with an Obama win, but they know what they're getting," said Brian Gardner, a Washington research executive at KBW.
Chanon Cook, the top research executive for Comedy Central, said the results also indicated that "irony has been replaced by absurdity".
As Alan Wurtzel, the top research executive for NBC put it, "The strategy for using the Olympics as a platform for promotion and sampling is a valid one.
