Nancy Hill: Moving the AAAAs forward
In part I of our AAAAs CEO Nancy Hill interview, we asked her about the most important industry issues today and which ones she’s...
Second time around another hit for Bustos
Amador Bustos sold his first company, Z-Spanish Media, to Entravision for approximately $450 million, cash and stock, in 2000; making a lot of money for himself and his investors.
Q4 ’07 trading: Radio takes the lead
For the first time in 2007, radio deals dominated a quarter. Over $1.7B was committed to radio station transactions in Q4, compared to only $622M invested in television stations.
Ad inventory systems companies surveyed
How are the different online radio and television transactional providers making dollars for stations? With the product offering changing rapidly with new functionalities and...
How to Make the Offer Your Local Client Can’t Refuse
If every time you saw or heard from me I solved a problem for you, would you be glad to see me? Would you take my call? Sure you would. You could have that same effect on local direct clients.
How to Sell Local Direct in a Recession
By Paul Weyland
1. Avoid negative talk. Get out of the office and go see clients face to face. Don't listen to the doom-and gloom-sayers that...
Billy Bush: Heat up the nights, let's go!
Westwood One launched “The Billy Bush Show” April 14, featuring Access Hollywood co-host Billy Bush. The evening talk and music show, produced by Bush...
Wall Street woes: More of 2007 in 2008
The first quarter of 2008 was nothing to get excited about for broadcasting stocks, either radio or television. In short, it was more of...
The three things local direct clients really need from their media representatives
1. A good reason to return your call-Like you and everyone else these days, your client is bombarded with spam. But unlike you, your...
Transmitter and programming considerations for HD Radio
In this Friday's Intel Brief consulting engineers Ed Bukont of Comm-Struction and Services and Marty Hadfield of The Hadfield Group discuss, respectively, the use...
WiFi Radios: getting your station out there-even more
One of the latest tech crazes is WiFi Radio-with all of the free WiFi Hot Spots, WiMax and just plain unprotected wireless internet clouds...
Sarah Foss’s "One Throat to be Choked" mission
VCI Solutions recently appointed Sarah Foss as President/CEO while founder W. Lowell Putnam will remain with the company, serving as the Chairman and Chief...
What the users say…
In today's Intel Brief on Traffic and Revenue Management Systems, we've gathered some quotes from radio and television traffic personnel responding to selected Traffic...
Dealing with tight credit; Part II
Our panelists turned to HD Radio, public companies going private and other front burner issues for broadcasters as the discussion continued.
Dealing with tight credit; Part I
In the 3rd Annual RBR/TVBR Financial Roundtable, the elephant in the room was the current tight credit market. But there are still deals being done.