Harris

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
Ken Dardis

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
Tablets

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...
Nielsen

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...
Nielsen

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

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 Corporation

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...
MMTC / Minority Media & Telecom Council

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....
U.S. Congress

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...

Post-Sandy car sales pick up

The automobile industry lost business due to the gaping hole in results in the northeast in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. And while the...
Fred Upton

House Republicans finalize Commerce leadership

Former Communications Subcommittee Chair Fred Upton (R-MI) (pictured) remains chair of the full House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Greg Walden (R-OR) is still...
Gordon Smith

Broadcasters volunteer for Sandy hearings

The FCC is planning field hearings to assess the impact Hurricane Sandy had on communications systems with an eye toward
David Honig

MMTC’s Honig weighs in on minority ownership

The FCC’s newly released figures on minority ownership only confirmed what was already known, according to Minority Media and Telecommunications Council leader David Honig....