Jeff Haley’s new job is Marketron CEO
Media software company Marketron has named Jeff Haley its CEO. The announcement comes a day after
Moody’s disappointed in LBI radio performance
Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the credit ratings of LBI Media (Liberman Broadcasting).
College TV station going to management group
WXEL-TV in West Palm Beach FL is going to a new licensee formed by the station’s executives in what is being called a merger....
Jeff Haley out at RAB as Erica Farber takes over
Less than five months after joining the Radio Advertising Bureau as its #2 executive, Erica Farber is taking over the top spot as President...
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