Venture Capital looking at YouTube channels
YouTube channels AwesomenessTV and Balcony TV recently received funding from venture capital firms. In a Wall Street Journal story, VCs are betting that these...
Positive economic trends spotted
The road ahead for the economy is still full of potholes, and even bigger cliff-sized vacuums, but a number of trends could be pointing...
Liberty Media to focus on SiriusXM after Starz spinoff
John Malone's Liberty Media plans to spin off its premium pay-TV network Starz LLC into a separate public company in a deal seen as...
CRE to study social media use and TV viewing relationship
The Council for Research Excellence (CRE), a diverse group of senior-level research professionals from throughout the media and advertising industries dedicated to advancing the...
Reebok writing checks to atone for false toning ads
Remember that scene in “The Jerk” where Navin Johnson is writing thousands upon thousands of checks in connection with his failed “Optigrab” invention? Now...
New York Times may be selling About.com
The New York Times’ ownership of About.com may be coming to an end. The paper has been looking to get rid of the struggling...
Disney’s Iger discusses Wall Street seers, taxes
In an appearance on Fox Business Network, Walt Disney honcho Robert Iger brushed off comments by Wall Street analysts who suggested
Disney per-share earnings leap on modest revenue gain
We wouldn’t mind having an extra $413M lying around, and we’d notice it too. And so did Walt Disney
Fisher Q2 TV revenue up 19%; Radio down 2%
Fisher Communications’ Q2 was highlighted by 19% growth in net television revenue compared to the same period in 2011. Excluding
Google adds congressional ad app
Advertisers have had the ability to target internet users by zip code for some time, and while that can be helpful to political advertisers,...
Rep touts broadcast role in homeland security
Hansen Clark (D-MI) believes that broadcasters play a vital role in providing critical information to citizens of the United States, and he’s asking the...
Mobile devices moving in on tabletop/laptop turf
According to a new study from BIGinsight, when it comes to visiting key internet portals or email boxes, fewer people are relying on their...
Television drives profitable Entravision Q2
Hispanic specialist Entravision enjoyed increases in net revenue and increased profits – crediting a healthy dose of political income plus increased retransmission fees as...
WaPo TV can’t pull up other divisions
The television stations in the Washington Post portfolio enjoyed a healthy Q2, but it wasn’t enough to spare the company an overall decline in...
Viacom slips in its fiscal Q3
The non-broadcast side of the Sumner Redstone media empire suffered from box office and advertising woes, leading to a 14% loss in the revenue...