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
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