Janssen Pharmaceuticals/J&J settle ad case for $181 million
NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a record $181 million settlement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals and its parent company Johnson & Johnson to resolve charges...
Station trading: Noncom Nashville FM; Raleigh debt deal
$3.35M WFCL-FM Nashville TN from Vanderbilt Student Communications Inc. (Marc J. Hetherington) to Nashville Public Radio (Robert Gordon et al). $300K escrow, balance in...
Hearst offers mobile election app
Expanding on the political coverage offered by its television stations (and pair of radio stations), Hearst Television is making mobile smartphone applications available to...
Canada calms down its TV commercials
US broadcasters are getting ready to follow the dictates of the CALM Act, which will attempt to bring the volume of commercials to par...
Dittman completes exit from Mobile radio
Iconic Mobile Rocker WABB-FM was sold early in 2012 (and since has been swapped), leaving Judith Dittman with WABB-AM in the market. Now a...
Musicians reiterate objection to Pandora-backed royalty plan
The MusicFirst Coalition is taking the occasion of a Pandora financial results release to repeat its objection to a Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) bill proposal...
Power 96.1 debuts in Atlanta
Clear Channel Atlanta has debuted WKLS-FM Power 96.1, the area’s new mainstream CHR station. It will compete directly with Cumulus’ WWWQ-FM and Lincoln Financial’s...
Celebrating 25 years of the Nielsen People Meter
Much has changed in the past 25 years—between digitally recording our favorite shows to surfing the Internet to texting on smartphones—but TV is undeniably...
MSOs may get approval to encrypt basic-cable signals
Cable companies led by Comcast are close to winning FCC approval to start encrypting basic- tier signals
Republican National Convention Day 2 draws 22 million+ viewers
An estimated 22.3 million people tuned in to watch the opening night of the 2012 Republican National Convention on Tuesday, 8/28, which was pushed...
Pandora Q2 revenue up 51% amongst net loss
Pandora posted a net loss in its fiscal 2013 Q2, however, its revenue jumped 51%. The Q2 net loss was $5.4 million, or a...
Dow scores slight gain, first up session in three
Stocks finished higher Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average logging its first gain in three sessions after the Fed's Beige Book showed gradual...
FTC: Ads touting “Your Baby Can Read” deceptive
As part of its ongoing efforts to stop over-hyped ad claims, the Federal Trade Commission has filed false advertising charges against the marketers of...
WLEY-FM partners with The Chicago Bears
SBS’s La Ley 107.9FM Chicago and the Chicago Bears announced a new radio partnership that will bring the Bears football games in Spanish to...
FTC offers ad claim guidelines to window industry
The Federal Trade Commission is concerned that some companies make “green” claims about products that are unsupported by scientific evidence. It has offered guidelines...