It’s official: Wheeler gets FCC chair nomination
As expected, President Barack Obama put forth the name of Core Capital Partners managing director
Ron Amram, Heineken USA’s Senior Media Director/Marketing
Heineken’s new TV spot, “Déjà Vu,” ushers in the redesigned Star Bottle across the US. Paired with a
New SiriusXM CEO to expand offering
Jim Meyer thinks satellite radio is a good business, but future opportunities may lie with in-car
Comcast/NBCU off to a good 2013 start
Revenue was up a bit and profits were up more at multimedia giant Comcast Corporation during Q1 2013. NBCU in particular
Time Warner Q1 earnings up, revenues flat
Time Warner, which recently announced it will would spin off its magazine unit Time Inc., had a
Viacom Q2 earnings down; ad revenue up
Viacom reported lower earnings 5/1 for its fiscal Q2, but the company's cable networks unit returned
Pittman, four others joining NAB Radio Board
Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman is joining the NAB Radio Board as an appointment of its chair, Don Benson. A fifth individual was
Wheeler getting FCC chair
According to reports, President Barack Obama is set to name Tom Wheeler to take the place of Julius Genachowski as Chair of the FCC....
March radio deals leave massive paper trail
So far in 2013, two out of 59 radio deals have accounted for over 75% of all value – they are the two sales by Cox to two different buyers. Not only did dealing slump in March, the amount of actual cash changing hands was utterly eclipsed by the seller paper involved in the deals.
Live TV ratings taking a big hit, thanks to time-shifting
The rapid rise of time-shifted viewing, driven by DVRs, VOD and mobile devices, have decimated TV ratings in Q1 and threatens to
SiriusXM reports record EBITDA, subscribers
Q1 saw revenue of $897 million, up 12% from Q1 2012’s revenue of $805 million. Net income for Q1 2013 and 2012 was $124...
Big TV payday for Phillies in the offing?
Yahoo Sports noted the spending spree that a new TV deal sparked for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and said the next big deal could enrich the Philadelphia Phillies. But at least one baseball executive worries that this may simply be the next bubble waiting to burst.
Barry Diller: the legal battle is over
The IAC Chairman and Aereo head honcho told a crowd at the Milken Institute's Global Conference in Beverly Hills 4/29 that Aereo's
Sinclair scores a Q1 touchdown
The Super Bowl was one of the reasons rapidly-expanding Sinclair Television Group was able to post better than 7% gains in same-station local revenue...
HuffPost Live content coming to cable
The Huffington Post has found a home on cable TV for its eight-month-old Internet channel, HuffPost Live. Mark Cuban's cable channel