Monday, June 22, 2026

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,...
Pandora

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,...
Newspaper

22 in a row for American newspapers

That’s how many consecutive down quarters US newspapers as a group have now suffered through
Nielsen

Nielsen to launch Cross-Platform Campaign Ratings

Nielsen is getting closer to offering what advertisers have been asking for years now: a system that
Pile of Money

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
NCAA March Madness

March Madness delivering big audience

CBS Sports and Turner Sports' exclusive second-round coverage of the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball
ABC

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

More Class A TVs facing status challenge from FCC

Three more notification have been sent out by the FCC involving a total of seven Class A stations – they are all being
Deal

Corpus Christi TV deal brews up paper storm

Transaction applications. Contracts for license assets. Contracts for operational assets. Contracts for
Dollar Sign

Station must pay up for failure to power down

An AM station operating on the northwestern edge of the Houston market sparked complaints that it
Vote

Mayoral guest host stint on Pittsburgh blowtorch KDKA questioned

They say that time is money as a general matter, but in the broadcasting
U.S. Supreme Court

Supremes shy away from TV for health care case

The health care package passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama is
FCC

FCC slams cable company for unauthorized retransmission

A cable system operating in the Baton Rouge DMA faced the expiration of retransmission
Jeff Brown, Tim Johnson, Keith Hartstein

Entercom VP biking from Boston to NYC with “Ride on Washington”

Jeff Brown, Entercom's VP/Market Manager, is participating in the first two legs of Tim Johnson's "Ride on