Pandora serving up political ads, as promised
As we reported on the capability last November, Pandora is now offering political advertisers audience-targeting. But at what cost? ProPublica reports North Carolina resident...
HD TV advertising up 150% since 2010
Extreme Reach, a platform for video ad distribution and ad serving solutions, released its Q2 2012 HD Advertising Trends Report that shows a 150%...
KCRW Music Mine App now in 12 countries
KCRW-FM LA (89.9FM and KCRW.com) has expanded its KCRW Music Mine app for Spotify to 11 new countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Netherlands,...
MundoFOX adds four large markets
The latest entrant into the Hispanic television market is MundoFOX, and it has expanded its reach with agreements that will put it into Boston,...
Cumulus, EMF in cash/swap three-station deal
3.1M WRQQ-FM Nashville TN (Belle Meade TN) from Cumulus Licensing LLC, a subsidiary of Cumulus Media (Lewis W. Dickey Jr.) to Educational Media Foundation...
Vanderbilt files for disputed FM sale
WRVU-FM Nashville has not been student-run for some time – in fact, it hasn’t even been WRVU – it now goes by calls WFCL....
Cumulus simultaneously skyrockets, slips
The inclusion of stations from Citadel fueled a 351.5% increase in net revenue, from $62.2M to $281M
Cuba lifts radio ban on Anti-Castro artists
Though the Communist authorities do not acknowledge it, for five decades state radio stations have blacklisted musicians who abandoned Fidel Castro’s 1959 Revolution and/or...
Liberty Media to focus on SiriusXM after Starz spinoff
John Malone's Liberty Media plans to spin off its premium pay-TV network Starz LLC into a separate public company in a deal seen as...
Ace Metrix names leading advertisers Olympics so far
Ace Metrix, analytics provider for television and video advertisers, announced the medal winning advertisers for the first 10 days of the Olympics are Chobani,...
Stocks manage a fourth-day gain
Stocks on Wednesday barely managed to extend a winning run, with the Dow industrials and S&P 500 ending higher for a fourth day as...
News Corp. Q4 results dripping in red ink
In his prepared remarks, News Corporation Chairman/CEO Rupert Murdoch focused on the company’s full year results – perhaps
CRE to study social media use and TV viewing relationship
The Council for Research Excellence (CRE), a diverse group of senior-level research professionals from throughout the media and advertising industries dedicated to advancing the...
The Rockin’ 80’s Summer 2012 Tour Wrap Up
Envision Radio Networks and 4C Studios announce The Rockin’ 80’s Summer 2012 Tour Wrap Up, a free special featuring a variety of 80’s bands...
NBC scores big on Tues with Olympics
Tuesday night’s primetime coverage of the London Olympics on NBC drew an average of 30.1 million viewers, the 11th time in 12 nights that...