Performance royalty battle may shift alliances
The uneven regimen of royalty requirements is complex, with separate rules for different distribution platforms. A Utah legislator has been working on a bill...
Stocks mostly higher; blue chips slide
U.S. equities were mixed Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average lagging behind and the other two major benchmarks managing to hold on to...
Liberty ups Sirius stake to 48%
Liberty Media, in its continuing quest to take control of Sirius XM, disclosed in an SEC filing that that it has purchased another 89.97...
Twins leave ESPN Radio for KTWN-FM
The Minnesota Twins confirmed that in 2013, Twins broadcasts will jump from Hubbard’s KSTP-AM ESPN Radio to KTWN-FM, which, like the Twins, is O&O’d...
TargetSpot issues multicultural digital audio studies
TargetSpot, the largest digital audio advertising network, released results of the industry's first multicultural Digital Audio studies. Conducted by Parks Associates, the reports unveil...
Haslingden to step down as at Fox Networks Group
News Corporation announced that David Haslingden, President and COO of Fox Networks Group since January 2011, has decided to step down at the end...
Music discovery still dominated by radio; not with teens
So says Nielsen’s Music 360 Report: Radio is still the dominant way people discover music (48%)
Envision Fantasy Sports 60 offers Football Draft Special
With the NFL season just around the corner, Envision Radio Networks’ Fantasy Sports 60 is offering a free hour-long fantasy football draft special to...
Fox: Hotel Hell grows 11%
With the Tuesday premiere of HOTEL HELL and an original MASTERCHEF, FOX ranked a very close #2 last among Adults 18-49 and was #1...
ABC’s NY Med posts big week-to-week gains
Building its numbers for the 2nd week in a row during Tuesday’s 10 o’clock hour, ABC’s NY Med shot up week to week in...
NBC: “Talent” #1 for the night
Tuesday Results: From 8-10 p.m. ET, “America’s Got Talent” (2.8/8 in 18-49, 10.0 million viewers overall) delivered the #1 results of the night on...
Fox’s internship program in legal hot water
A class-action suit re: internships at Fox Entertainment is broadening in scope, says The Hollywood Reporter. Last fall, two interns who worked on “Black...
Ace Metrix names most effective Summer Olympics ads
Ace Metrix, analytics provider for television and video advertisers, has gauged the effectiveness of the Summer Olympics advertisers. Chobani and GE tied for the...
Ad forecasts for 2012, beyond revised downward
Perhaps all of the election dollars in the marketplace are not making the advertising marketplace as rosy as many had thought—but it sure did...
Tea Party likely boots Stearns out of Congress
Cliff Stearns (R-FL), a member of the key House Committee on Energy and Commerce and a former party leader in that panel’s even more...