Sandy helps fuel November car sales surge
TrueCar.com estimates that 30,000 cars were not purchased during the month of October 2012 as a direct result of Hurricane Sandy. The good news...
Lots of holiday spending remains undone
According to Consumer Reports, despite record spending over Thanksgiving weekend and on
Walden outlines goals for House panel
Communications Subcommittee Chair Greg Walden (R-OR) plans to keep an eye on the FCC during the course of the 113th Congress, and may make...
DeMint exits Senate for think tank post
Jim DeMint (R-SC), who was expected to ascend to the top Republican spot on the influential Senate Commerce Committee, is headed instead for the...
Harris to sell Broadcast unit for $225 million
Harris, which makes most of its revenue from tactical communications gear used by the military, said it will sell its
IRFA: Radio industry angst, online and off
It was supposed to be a get-together for discussion of the "Internet Radio Fairness Act," with the main topic concerning how much money should
Mobile gift purchasing on the rise
Everybody knows that online retail activity is on the rise. A report from Prosper Mobile Insights noting that mobile devices are increasingly being used...
Watching TV? Don’t forget your smartphone, tablet
Tablets and smartphones have quickly become a technological staple of the modern family. While smartphone penetration in the U.S. is over 50 percent, tablet...
Mobile devices empower today’s shoppers in-store and online
With 2012 marking the first holiday shopping season where the majority of mobile subscribers own smartphones, today’s shoppers are better equipped than ever to...
FCC opens up window for diversity comments
The release in November of initial stats drawn from FCC Form 323 on the ownership of broadcast licenses has inspired the desire to put...
Dividend compendium
Apparently, ‘tis the season to divide and prosper – the litany of broadcast and other related communications companies offering dividends to their shareholders continues...
News Corp. unveils separation details
Rupert Murdoch's newspaper empire will continue to be named News Corp., but its television
NABOB stalwart Bennie Turner passes
Bennie Turner, former President of the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, has passed. He was also a legislator in his home state of...
Watchdog wants diversity considered under quadrennial review
A number of public interest groups are concerned that the FCC’s report plan to loosen cross-ownership restrictions will also weaken minority broadcast ownership levels....
Senator demands public FCC vote on media ownership
Maria Cantwell (D-WA) does not believe the five FCC commissioners should be allowed to hide out on the FCC’s 8th Floor when they vote...