Prestige beauty product sales have highest growth in 15 years
Is this a sign of a real recovery taking hold? The NPD Group reports that 2011 sales of prestige beauty products were at their...
Peak Broadcasting exits Chapter 11
That didn’t take long! Peak Broadcasting, which entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring in January with a prepackaged plan approved by most of its senior...
Barry Mayo exits Radio One
Veteran broadcaster Barry Mayo has resigned from Radio One where he was President of the radio division since 2007. The company announcement said he...
AM and FM on PA-NY border sold
WTSX-FM Lehman Township PA and WDLC-AM Port Jervis NY are in the same vicinity, but don’t quite manage to get any primary contour overlap....
Government tries to counter cigarette marketing
Health-related elements of the United States government are hoping to make a dent in tobacco sales, and have the advantage of their choice of...
Local Media TV stockpiles more big market Class A’s
A group of investors with various television investors have acquired low power television assets in
DG dominates the RADAR dojo
Arbitron has released the RADAR March 2012 (RADAR 112) network ratings. The composition this time around is quite different than the
Pure Michigan kicks off 2012 campaign
The Pure Michigan national cable TV campaign for spring and summer hit the airwaves across the country 3/19. It runs through June. This year,...
Royalties cost Pandora big bucks
The annual 10-K which Pandora Media just filed with the SEC contains lots of the usual boiler
“This American Life” report retracted from PRI
Public Radio International’s weekly radio show “This American Life” retracted a report on conditions of Chinese workers who make Apple products.
Said the show,...
22 in a row for American newspapers
That’s how many consecutive down quarters US newspapers as a group have now suffered through
Nielsen to launch Cross-Platform Campaign Ratings
Nielsen is getting closer to offering what advertisers have been asking for years now: a system that
Nielsen backers to take some cash
The private equity funds who took Nielsen (then VNU) private in 2006 and then took it public again in
March Madness delivering big audience
CBS Sports and Turner Sports' exclusive second-round coverage of the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball
Shark show feeds ABC Friday ratings
ABC finished a solid second on Friday to CBS with NCAA Basketball coverage in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49