BSkyB Chairman James Murdoch to step down
News Corp. Deputy COO James Murdoch is stepping down as chairman of U.K. pay-TV giant
Who needs ratings to sell radio? (audio)
Not Alan Beck. The Market Manager for Saga Communications in Champaign-Urbana, IL says the
LBI Media sees gains in 2012 after an up year in 2011
Revenue gains by its television segment more than counterbalanced a decline for radio
Entercom scores Inner City’s San Francisco FM
A deal is in place that will send Urban KBLX-FM from troubled Inner City Broadcasting and into the open arms of the local Entercom...
DirecTV tries to draw FCC into Tribune retrans dispute
After Tribune Broadcasting stations in 19 markets were removed from its local-to-local satellite service over
Emmis shareholders approve preferred trust for employees
The outcome was never in doubt, since CEO Jeff Smulyan controls 64% of the voting power, but a
Dial Global reports on a big year
Dial Global looked very different at the end of 2011 than at the beginning. It had acquired Westwood One and used its
Raul Alarcón upbeat on 2012 for SBS (audio)
Spanish Broadcasting System doesn’t provide Wall Street with specific forward guidance. But there’s so much optimism
Tribune, DirecTV in stalemate
UPDATE: There was no deal afterall. The Tribune stations were pulled from DirectTV as of midnight Saturday (3/31).
It looked like a past-deadline impasse had...
Current event: Olbermann gets walking papers
Keith Olbermann brought star power to cable news/opinion channel Current, formed by Al Gore and
Big union merger approved to form SAG-AFTRA
Despite some recent battling in court with dissidents, it was hardly a surprise that members of the
Liberty Media may be launching hostile takeover of Sirius XM
John Malone's Liberty Media his filed three Form 312s with the FCC seeking consent to the transfer of de facto control of SiriusXM Radio's...
Emmis preferred fight gets NYT attention
The battle between Emmis Communications and some major holders of its preferred shares has
SBS finished 2011 with a strong Q4
As good as Q3 of 2011 was for Spanish Broadcasting System, Q4 was even better. Radio revenues
Clear Channel cuts more staff
Looks like they’ve gone from annual layoffs to quarterly layoffs: Clear Channel has confirmed that a number of new job cuts have been made,...