S&P 500 gains for 7th week
The S&P 500 Index logged its seventh week of gains as U.S. stocks finished mostly lower Friday, after a choppy trading day. Stocks traded...
Three radio markets get Eastlan ratings
They’ll soon be keeping score for radio stations serving one Montana community and two Florida communities. For one of the Florida locations, it will...
NAB: Encourage diversity, but keep filing manageable
The arduous tale of ongoing efforts to increase the number of minority and female broadcast owners has been front and center at the FCC...
Corpus Christi FM trio spun off by trustee
$2.3M KKPN-FM, KAJE-FM & KPUS-FM Corpus Christi TX (Rockport, Ingleside, Gregory TX) from Convergent Broadcasting Corpus Christi LP (Michael Mahone, trustee) to Convergent Broadcasting...
Seller is also buyer in Chico two-part TV deal
$5.45M KHSL-TV Chico-Redding CA (Chico CA) from Catamount Broadcasting of Chico-Redding Inc. (Theodore T. Horton Jr.) to GOCOM Medias of Northwestern California LLC, a...
Benne buys in unrated Missouri territory
Benne Broadcasting already has a pair of stations serving the area of Missouri to the southwest of state capital Jefferson City and Arbitron market...
CFOs optimistic about near-term US economic growth
As we have seen so often, just as consumer optimism takes a turn for the worse, the optimism level of the business community turns...
Diet of death on TV quantified in survey
The television body count is on the way up, says the second edition of a Funeralwise.com survey of 40 programs during Fall 2012 which...
The Bachelor Visits St. Croix
There are 3 surefire ways to get the boot on any given season of The Bachelor:
(1) Complain as much as possible. Either in general...
Dial Global files to suspend SEC reporting obligations
The company filed a Form 15 with the Securities and Exchange Commission to accomplish the suspension on 2/15. After making this filing, unless otherwise...
Salisbury U. may take over WSCL-FM to save it
Delmarva Public Radio was founded a quarter century ago by Salisbury University (Maryland), but there was a good chance the school was going to...
Australian Federal Court: Streaming is separate copyright issue
The Federal Court down under has ruled that Internet simulcasts of radio programs are not broadcasts under the Copyright Act and therefore are not...
China bans ads for luxury products
Perhaps in an effort to keep its citizens content (it too is seeing a widening gap between the rich and poor), China’s ban of...
CCME debuts new country station in Tucson
Cumulus’ heritage Country station KIIM-FM is getting some competition in Arizona’s second-largest market: Clear Channel is rolling out its own Country station “Wild Country...
Banking and shopping are leading mobile activities
Broadcasters are hoping to pick up audience on mobile phones, but they can also be utilizing mobile by getting clients to take advantage of...