Nielsen Q1 revenue up 3% (audio)
Nielsen’s Q1 revenues grew 3% to $1,340 million, up 4% from Q4 2011. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter grew 4% to $332 million, up...
Conference Board concurs that confidence is flat
Consumers have elevated their level of confidence over its position in the middle to later portions of 2011, but after getting to a certain...
Verizon competitor protests AWS purchase
T-Mobile wonders why telco giant Verizon needs to acquire AWS spectrum from a consortium of cable companies – it says that Verizon isn’t even...
Survey says Mother’s Day will be on a budget
According to PriceGrabber, some people have already made their purchases for Mother’s Day, which falls on Sunday 5/13/12, less than three weeks from this...
Who’s in the board room at Cumulus Media?
You know, of course, that Chairman, President and CEO Lew Dickey Jr. is on the Board of Directors at Cumulus Media. But after all...
Analyst looks at the station inventory
The Freedom, McGraw-Hill and Four Points television station groups have been sold and Nexstar has been
Peter Chernin ramps up media company with new investors
Former News Corporation COO Peter Chernin has taken on major new investors to make The Chernin Group (TCG) a major international
Some radio investors get ready to sell stock
One of radio’s largest public companies has registered shares for some private equity investors. That will permit them to take some cash off the...
Broadcast M&A likely to pick up in 2012
After several years of drought, there have been a handful of big deals in recent months, first in radio
Election, Martin shooting dominate the news
Fueled by strong coverage from cable and radio, the presidential election was the number one story for the week of 4/9-4/15, according to the...
Noncoms said to be leery of political ads
The Boston Globe did a small survey of noncommercial broadcast outlets in the wake of the Ninth Circuit Court’s finding that political and issue...
Radio seller: Playing field is not fair against TV, internet
An anonymous seller in the radio biz (we won’t say whether network, spot, national or local), wrote RBR-TVBR with a good rant that describes...
More evidence of coordinated attacks against Rush’s advertisers
This time there's proof that local Rush Limbaugh advertisers are being targeted. We have the entire
Man shoves reporter in Charlotte; screams expletives (video)
A Charlotte man was briefly behind bars after shoving a Raycom Media WMBF-TV (NBC) News reporter
WDJQ loses injunction to silence ex-talent
D.A. Peterson, Inc.’s CHR/Classic Hits WDJQ-FM Alliance-Canton-Youngstown, OH was denied an injunction by Judge Charles E. Brown of Stark County, OH Common Pleas Court...