Gavel

Arbitron settles shareholder lawsuit

A class-action securities lawsuit against Arbitron and its executives is about to come to an end. Arbitron disclosed in an SEC filing
Sold

Connoisseur ups profile with Barnstable Long Island stations

Bloomington, IL. Huntington, WV. Billings, MT. Wichita, KS. Erie, PA. Omaha, NE. Rapid City, SD
Tribune Broadcasting

Tribune about to pull stations from DirecTV

The retransmission contract between multimedia Tribune and satellite MVPD DirecTV expires
Arbitron

Arbitron settles PPM lawsuit by California AG

Arbitron announced that it has come to terms with one of the state attorneys general who filed suit over its Portable People Meter (PPM)...
Stocks

Big Ben cheers The Street

Stock traders reacted with glee as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the National Association for Business Economics that unemployment is still too high...
FCC

Extended reply period on quadrennial review

What’s a couple of weeks when the entire proceeding seems to be a couple of years behind schedule? The comment period for The 2010...

Another chapter in the FCC open season on Class A TV

Some of you may remember a few years ago when the FCC was just about to confer must-carry status on Class A television stations...
Ford

Ford launching new Escape via NBC’s “Escape Routes” (video)

Ford will become the first automaker (3/31) to launch a vehicle through primetime TV with "Escape Routes,"

MFM scholarship to Andrew DeBaker

Young Broadcasting Accounting Manager Andrew DeBaker, CPA, is the winner of the scholarship from Media Financial Management Association (MFM) and its BCCA subsidiary honoring...
KUPL 98.7 Country

98.7 KUPL brings back Countryfest

Alpha Broadcasting’s New Country 98.7 KUPL-FM Portland is teaming up with the Portland Rose Festival to celebrate the return of Countryfest at the RoZone....

Stock deal for FM CP results in new LMA partnership

$100K WGMP-FM CP Montgomery AL (Coosada AL). 100% of Liberty Acquisition 825 LLC from Joseph Wortley to Kathleen Schaefer McQueen. Cash. CP is for...

Wireless company snaps up Vegas low power TV

$425K KEED-CD Las Vegas NV from Christian Media Associates International Inc. (Dale Davidson, Guy R. Williams) to Landover Wireless Corporation (Laurence S. Zimmerman). $42.5K...
Deal

Newport Television group said to be on the block

Providence Equity Partners formed Newport Television LLC and acquired radio giant Clear Channel’s television assets about four
Chart

Consumer confidence continuing to climb

The latest look at consumer confidence by BIGinsight shows the upward trend is still in place. In fact
Broadcast Tower

Radio licensee can’t sell what no longer exists

The FCC has slapped the dreaded “D” in front of the call letters for WLMA(AM) Greenwood SC – when it reads DWLMA(AM) that means...