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...
Eurochannel launches on Android, Google TV devices
Eurochannel has expanded its reach, entering the Internet TV space with the launch of the Eurochannel app on the Play Store for Google TV,...
Local is everywhere
RBR-TVBR has been preaching sermons, for as long as we can remember since the onset of the internet era, that broadcast’s unique selling proposition...
CBS posts increases despite revenue decline
The $3.48B CBS raked during Q2 2012 may sound like a lot, but it isn’t when compared to the $3.59B recorded a year prior....
Univision gains ground during Q2
Net revenues moved forward by 3.8% for multimedia Hispanic giant Univision. With strong ratings, a steady stream of retransmission consent payments and new initiatives,...
Britain’s Financial Times leans digital
There are 599K subscribers to the UK daily Financial Times, and the makeup of that subscriber base is now tilted toward the internet –...
Super PACs will pour high octane cash into TV
There are two differences between political advertising from candidates and political action committees. Candidates have limits on fund-raising, and they are guaranteed lowest unit...