Broadcasters moving into mobile marketing
There was big excitement at the NAB Show over new portable devices which consumers will soon be using to watch broadcast television. But there...
Now if pirates hijacked the economy
Then you'd really have a story. The Somalian pirates have proven so irresistible to media with cameras (network TV and cable) that it came...
Broadcasters swim against the tide
The stock market was jittery again – bank shenanigans, what else? – but broadcasters managed to dip into the black inkwell for a change....
Knight Commission, PBS take on journalism
The sorry state of the print journalism business is getting lots and lots of attention. Now The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of...
FCC diversity committee gets set for new start
The FCC’s Diversity Advisory Committee is now officially rechartered almost to the end of 2010, and is getting set to meet and start tackling its assigned
Journal Q1 Broadcasting revenues down 20.5%
Journal Communications’ Q1 revenue of $106.8 million decreased 20.4% compared to $134.3 million in Q1 ‘08. Operating loss was $0.6 million compared to operating...
Adelstein still on the warpath over PPM and VNRs
His time remaining at the FCC is short, but Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein is not coasting – far from it. The DTV transition is keeping...
Adelstein makes the Vegas scene
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein unveiled the Commission’s new, enhanced website dealing with the DTV transition – showing off the consumer-friendly site Tuesday at the FCC’s NAB Show booth
Early impressions of the NAB Show
Given the economic downturn, no one was expecting attendance at the 2009 NAB show to match last year. Even so, the turnout and atmosphere are not a worst case scenario
Capitol Hill tees up newspapers
John Conyers (D-MI) is used the House Subcommittee on the Courts and Competition Policy and the Internet, and John Kerry (D-MA) is using the...
Wells Fargo Foothills makes a withdrawal
To all appearances, the low- to mid-cap Media & Communications operation at Wells Fargo Foothills is getting out of the lending business, and RBR...
NABOB plans spring meeting
The National Association of Black-Owned Broadcasters will confab in the Caribbean from 5-15-09 through 5-20-09. Chiefly on the organization’s mind? PPM, PPM and PPM....
Bureau closings worry DC reporters
Panelists for Tuesday’s NAB/RTNDA joint super session on the changes taking place in Washington expressed worries that the quality of reporting will suffer with many news outlets closing their DC bureaus
Mary Tyler Moore honored in Las Vegas
An emotional Mary Tyler Moore thanked broadcasters for honoring her with the NAB Distinguished Service Award. She also praised radio and TV stations for...
Broadcasters told to put on a happy face
“It’s not so glum. Everything’s going to be OK,” said Kelsey Grammer as he received an award at the NAB Show and suggested that the directors whose photos had been put up on the big screen