Hulu, Fox moving to streaming authentication model
As part of the TV Everywhere initiative, Hulu is reportedly looking to change its free streaming model to one where viewers will have to...
Westerkirk Capital buying Vista, Haliburton Broadcasting Groups
Westerkirk Capital has agreed to purchase all of the shares not owned by management of Vista Radio's parent. Vista Broadcast Group. Together, Westerkirk and...
Emancipation at hand for FCC nominees
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) isn’t done with the FCC yet in regards to the LightSquared proceeding, but he has indicated that he’s now getting...
Behaviors and strategies of apparel shoppers detailed
Consumers continue to cope with a tricky economy, most recently evidenced in their plans to decrease overall spending increasing 20%+ from March. Apparel shoppers...
Reps introduce spectrum bill
A group of reps have started up a working group with a mission to free spectrum for wireless broadband – and it looks like...
Entravision’s Philip Wilkinson to resign
Entravision announced Philip Wilkinson will be resigning from his position as President and Chief Operating Officer of Entravision, effective 5/31. Wilkinson will remain a...
Grassley may be relenting in FCC nominees
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has been probing the FCC’s dealings with LightSquared, and to express his displeasure with what he sees as the FCC’s...
FCC studies charitable fund-raising by noncoms
Pile of MoneyAs we suspected, an agenda item scheduled for the April Open Meeting was removed
Vevo holds NewFront in NYC
As this week keeps rolling out called the Digital Content NewFronts from destinations such as AOL, Digitas, YouTube and Yahoo VEVO, the premium music...
Alpha women seen heading back to the stores
Ginger Consulting has been keeping track of what trend-setting women are doing – it calls them Alpha Women – and what it has found...
Print drags down Journal’s positive broadcast results
Revenues were up 5.4% at Journal Communication’s broadcast properties, and operating earnings
YouTube largest source of mobile video traffic
While many have said Netflix is the largest internet bandwidth hog in the world, not so with mobile video traffic. YouTube takes that crown,...
Virginia issues major cuts to public broadcasting
The Community Idea Stations, which includes three FM and three TV stations in Richmond and Charlottesville, will eliminate 11 positions before the end of...
Mother’s Day spending expected to hit $18.6B
The National Retail Federation is citing BIGinsight data to make the prediction that the average person celebrating Mother’s Day in 2012 will spend about...
Broadcast expected to post choppy improvement in Q2
Wells Fargo analyst Marci Ryvicker points to a few reasons that Q1 2012 may not have been all it could have