RIAA, NMPA, DiMA come to terms for digital/mobile royalty rates
Associations representing the major labels, publishers, artists and songwriters have agreed signed a major royalty deal with digital music services and mobile phone companies...
Marketron details Mediascape growth: year one
Marketron, provider of business software solutions and services for the media industry, announced that a year since its launch in April 2011, Mediascape (its...
Fresno AM moves for ten bucks
$10 KHOT-AM Fresno CA (Madera CA) from Redwood Family Services Inc. (Andrew Johnson) to IHR Educational Broadcasting (Douglas M. Sherman et al). Cash. TBA...
NRJ expands into Los Angeles, Honolulu
$45M KSCI-TV Los Angeles CA (Long Beach), KUAN-LP San Diego CA (Poway CA) and KIKU-TV Honolulu HI from license subsidiaries of International Media Group...
MBM south Texas buying spree continues
It hasn’t even been a year yet since MBM Radio started buying up radio stations in the Rio Grande area in Texas not far...
Broadcast, reporting among America’s worst jobs
The 2012 CareerCast.com Jobs Rated Report is out, ranking 200 jobs in the US, and it has found that members of the journalism and...
TV One puts new spin on cooking competition
This May, TV One serves up a delicious take on culinary competition with the debut of its new primetime series My Momma Throws Down....
Rove super PAC going to work in swing states
The primary election season may be all but over, and the general election is still months away, but the Karl Rove-Ed Gillespie Republican super...
Yahoo, Ford launching web reality series
The new Ford Focus Electric campaign will be entirely digital and run entirely on Yahoo, which plans to launch the Focus Electric-sponsored "Plugged In"...
Cox Media to flip The Bone to Talk
It’s the first FM talker for Tampa Bay: Cox Media Group Tampa will flip Classic Rock 102.5 The Bone to FM talk, “The Bone....
Oaktree Capital IPO ready to price
UPDATE: Both Bloomberg and the New York Times Dealbook reported Wednesday evening that the Oaktree IPO priced at the low end of its projected...
Bloomberg files another Comcast complaint
Bloomberg says its Bloomberg business news channel is not located close enough in channel position to Comcast's CNBC
Dismal day: Dow down 200+
Investor fears on Europe's fiscal health drove Wall Street down Tuesday, as all three indexes dropped some 1.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped...
Week 29: The Voice continues to fuel NBC
With the Monday and Tuesday editions of “The Voice” both ranking among the week’s top five entertainment telecasts in adults 18-49 and adults 18-34,...
Week 29: ABC making 2nd place a habit
Overall: During the week of 4/2/12, ABC registered as the 2nd-most-watched network for the 4th week in a row to CBS, increasing its advantage...