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July 2 is the day the FCC rule requiring online records of who paid for political ads takes effect for

Imagine Communications, a market leader of media software and video infrastructure solutions serving

Google plans to blend Songza's technology into its own music-streaming service, Google Play Music All Access, which costs

Noalmark Broadcasting’s rocker KHRK Hot Springs, AR “Real Rock 101.5” has added sister station

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway added a television station to its media holdings with the acquisition of

Here’s a list of the FCC’s latest licenses, construction permits and transfers of control—granted and dismissed—for TV, AM and FM. This list is current as of 6/27/14:

Seeking Alpha’s Crunching Numbers reports more than three years ago he wrote an article that looked at the basic metrics of the Sirius XM Holdings (SIRI) subscription model. It was an exercise to determine where the subscriber growth was heading.

The National Association of Broadcasters announced the finalists for the 2014 NAB Marconi Radio

Media Venture Partners announced that Main Line Broadcasting has closed on its $57,000,000 sale to

Brian Wieser, Senior Research Analyst, Pivotal Research Group, writes that Nielsen published its

Shares of Liberty Media were the target of a significant increase in short interest during the month of June. As of 6/13, there was short interest totaling 1,882,386 shares, an increase of 57.2% from the 5/30 total of 1,197,354 shares, StockRatingsNetwork.com reports. Currently, 2.0% of the shares of the company are short sold. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 882,174 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.1 days.

Peter Gutmann at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP, notes that the changes are in response to its

Bliss Communications, publisher of The Janesville, WI Gazette and parent company of Racine