Wall Street found some energy on Friday
Energy shares led the way as stock prices advanced on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 35 points, or 0.3%, to 13,081....
FCC auctions: If you play you gotta pay
The FCC is about to put over 100 FM allotments up for auction during the final week of March, so the bill it has...
Tucson LPTV headed for new owner
There has been a steady if modest flow of traffic in station trading, low power television division. Class As and LPTVs have consistently comprised...
Trinity Broadcasting suit could lead to license revocations
Televangelists Paul and Jan Crouch, founders of the religious Trinity Broadcasting Network are under attack by their granddaughter Brittany Koper
Envision announces Paul Shaffer’s Rock Hall Spectacular
It’s a free two hour special saluting Rock Hall inductees past and present. Hosted by David Letterman’s longtime musical director, Paul Shaffer, this year’s...
Variety put up for sale by RBI
Reed Business Information (RBI) announced Friday (3/23) that it is seeking to sell Variety, the century-old showbiz magazine. RBI had previously sold off its...
Rush to SiriusXM a solution, say some
Should Rush move to Sirius XM or online? It’s certainly been a solution for Howard Stern and others. With advertisers bailing on El Rushbo,...
BET News sets Monday special on Florida killing
With a growing public spotlight on the case of a black teen who was shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford,...
Missouri noncom FM headed to new owner
$133K WITG-FM Sarcoxie MO from Calvary Chapel of Joplin (Jeffery A. Kingery) to Lake Area Educational Broadcasting Foundation (James J. McDermott et al). $8K...
McCulloch Triumphs with Portland ME TV buy
75K WPME-DT Portland-Auburn ME (Lewiston ME) from MPS Media of Portland License LLC (Eugene J. Brown) to Triumph Broadcasting LLC (Robert J. McCulloch, Jesse...
Advisory panel advocates FCC backing for CPB
The FCC Consumer Advisory Committee has looked at public broadcasting and found it good. And it likes the fact that the Corporation for Public...
Streamed video is an expensive bandwidth hog
One of the wonders of the new millennium for those of us who grew up with electronic devices attached by a cord to a...
Jacksonville AM gets an FM sister
Seven Bridges Radio acquired WIOJ-AM Jacksonville Beach FL pursuant to terms memorialized in a 12/4/06 contract with seller McEntee Broadcasting of Florida. The station,...
“Dump Starbucks” campaign launched over gay marriage
The National Organization for Marriage, which is lobbying against gay marriage is asking coffee drinkers all over the world to boycott Starbucks because of...
Analyst upbeat on Belo prospects
Wells Fargo Securities analyst Marci Ryvicker has been digging into Belo Corporation, meeting for two days