Industry & Services ad category up 29% in Q1
Even though global ad spending has grown only moderately on a year-over-year basis, 2013 has proven to be a year to spend for select...
Fox News sues TVEyes over copyright infringement
TVEyes is a $500-per-month TV and radio broadcast search service. Fox News filed the suit on 7/30 in U.S.
Ft. Lauderdale man electrocuted with pirate radio antenna
Here’s a pirate FM story you don’t hear very often, but tragically reminds us that everyday pirates are often not skilled RF engineers: An...
Stocks finish with July gains after Fed move
Stocks on Wednesday finished little changed after the Federal Reserve offered few clues on potential changes to its monetary policy. The Dow fell 21.05...
Putting a price on the Media General/Young merger
Word that Young Broadcasting was merging into Media General surfaced in June, and Bloomberg
CBS grows but station results spring a leak
Radio was flat and television was down slightly for media giant CBS, but network revenues soared and
The Echo Nest powers Uforia
The Echo Nest, a leading music intelligence company, extends its reach by powering Univision's Uforia music app for iOS. The Uforia app offers U.S....
Moody’s looks at Omnicom’s merger with Publicis
Moody's Investors Service has affirmed the Baa1 senior unsecured and Prime-2 commercial paper ratings of Omnicom Group following the recent announcement that the company...
FCC puts big TV deals before the public
Any broadcast transaction is eligible to be hit with a dreaded petition to deny, and usually that fact is taken as a given. But...
Local Voice Media expands with Red Zebra buys
Local Voice Media, owner of AAA 92.3 FM The Tide WTYD-FM Williamsburg, VA has bought
NBC uses Talent to capture Tuesday
Fox's dancing show did OK, but NBC's America's Got Talent did better, making NBC and Fox #1 and #2 ahead of Univision. CBS and...
LBI Media launches Don Cheto nationwide
The timing is good: In the wake of stations having to deal with the Piolin mess and on the heels of gaining
Journal Q2 was healthy, excluding political
For the quarter, revenue of $101.2 million increased 6.0% and operating earnings of $13.1 million
Back to school plans of optimistic yet frugal consumers
Deloitte sees major improvement in consumer sentiment year-over-year, with an increasing number of families coming to believe they stand on “solid ground.” However, the hard-learned lessons of thriftiness and careful household financial management will still rule the day during the upcoming back-to-school shopping season.
Inside L&L’s Savannah expansion
Larry Wilson’s Savannah GA/Hilton Head Island SC radio cluster is adding a station, and in so doing, will also be losing a station. And while only two of them are considered to be Savannah market facilities by BIA, all, including the station on the block, get into at least a portion of the city.