PTC / Parents Television Council

PTC takes apart body part mentions on TV

Parents Television Council doesn’t just watch everything on prime time television, it takes notes and it keeps score. According to a recent report, it...
TuneIn

TuneIn offering Wall Street Journal Radio Network

Free streaming services provider TuneIn has signed The Wall Street Journal Radio Network to offer up its content to some 30 million TuneIn listeners....

KKFN re-ups with afternoon driver in Denver

Lincoln Financial Media’s KKFN-FM (104.3 The Fan) has signed former Denver Bronco Alfred Williams to a multi-year contract extension to remain as co-host for...
BTIG

Rich Greenfield still a bear on Pandora

The latest quarterly figures from Pandora Media sent the stock price lower, but long-time critic Rich
Moody's

Moody’s still mulling Media General ratings

Moody's Investors Service has taken note of the successful refinance move by Media General to amend its senior credit facility and push out the...
Gary Pruitt

Gary Pruitt to take the helm of The Associated Press

McClatchy Company President and CEO Gary Pruitt has been named President and CEO of The Associated Press. He’ll take over at the news cooperative...
Comcast

Comcast, Liberty Global invest in Integrate

Integrate, the advertising start-up co-founded by Jeremy Bloom (former NFL player, Olympic skier and college football analyst for Fox Sports), has raised some $11...
Rush Limbaugh

Media Matters launches anti-Rush radio campaign

The effort to bring down El Rushbo apparently doesn’t stop with reaching out to advertisers to drop
Lew Dickey

Lew Dickey got his payday for a big 2011

The past calendar year saw big changes at Cumulus Media, as the company ballooned in size from the acquisition of both Citadel and
Stocks

Broadcasters outperformed a mixed market

Fed chief Ben Bernanke worried about Europe in testimony on Capitol Hill and the National Association of Realtors reported that February sales of existing...
Gavel

Class action law firm targets Pandora Media

You knew this was coming. A law firm specializing in securities law class action lawsuits is trolling for clients who bought shares in last...
FCC

FCC targets MSS spectrum for mobile broadband

The television band is a prominent target for spectrum repurposing to meet the demand for mobile broadband, and now it has company on the...
Julius Genachowski

FCC kicks off task force on incentive auctions

The conventional wisdom is that the authority granted to the FCC to conduct incentive auctions of spectrum in the television space, itself the result...
Microphone

Australia tightens rules against radio pay-for-say

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, two of Australia’s leading radio “presenters” were able to bank considerable amounts of cash for promoting various good...
Time Warner Cable

North Carolina, Time Warner Cable partner on tourism

In an effort to attract visitors, the North Carolina Division of Tourism has formed a partnership with Time Warner Cable Media to air long-form...