Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Radio Bests Television on Wall Street

In our report on the prior trading week we noted how radio stocks we cover waxed the television stocks we cover. They did the...

Wall Street Awash in Black Ink

The Dow got happy feet Monday on encouraging economic data and other factors, and it was a good day for most broadcast stocks. On...

Stocks Rise After the Yellen is Done

Janet Yellen assured stock traders and the rest of America that the Fed had no plans to increase borrowing rates at any pace faster...

Dampened Earnings Fears Dampen Wall Street

Radio stocks on average largely shook off a down day on The Street, while television stocks weren’t quite so lucky. And it was a...

Broadcast Stocks Slide with the Market

It is the policy of the RBR+TVBR Stock Index to not include 0.0 scores on either the Winners or the Losers lists we publish...

Broadcasters Swim to the Black

That’s while the market as a whole was going in the other direction. To be honest, radio was doing a great job of swimming...

Mixed Trading for Broadcast Stocks

It was mostly a very good day in the markets for radio companies, but quite the opposite was true on the television side. Emmis...

Weakened Dollar Helps Most Stocks

But not radio, so that one could notice. Oh, the RBR Radio Index posted a gain – a one hundredth of a percent gain...

Fed Takes Cautious Approach

And the markets therefore threw caution to the wind. But a rough day at SBS and an even rougher one at Cumulus contributed to...

Stock Market Was Well-Fed

Ironically, the Fed lowered its expectations for the US economy, and the stock markets took that as good news, because it meant interest rates...

Broadcast Stocks Reverse Monday Results

On Monday, the market was up, as was TV while radio was down. On Tuesday, the market, skittish about the Fed was down, and...

Dollar Down, Market Up, Radio Misses the Memo

Stocks actually gained on a lowering of the dollar (helps out with exports, among other things). TV took part in the fun but it...
Sound Exchange

SoundExchange, Noncoms Agree on Rates

Digital streaming rates for NPR and CPB have been set for the next five years

Broadcast Stocks Dodge Doldrums

The markets were worried again, as oil took another hit and Fed fretting continued. But television stocks we follow posted a modest gain as...

Wall Street Rallies, Broadcast Tags Along

The Fed will speak next week, and either allay or confirm the fears that spooked The Street the past two days. Today, stocks rallied...