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...
Point-counterpoint on FCC Supreme appeal
The FCC is asking to make a Supreme Court case out of the infamous Janet Jackson 2004 Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction case, so we...
Arbitron looks at PPM device vs. smartphones (audio)
Since the early days of the Portable People Meter (PPM) broadcasters and Wall Street analysts have been asking whether Arbitron will switch from using...
TV Dramas: highest primetime viewing, timeshifting, ad spend
In the first of a three-part insight series, Nielsen looked at viewership and advertising across five traditional primetime genres and found that dramas account...
Media General working on trimming portfolio (audio)
As Media General reported its Q1 financial results, company officials said there has been quite a bit of interest from potential buyers of some...
Dick Clark dead at 82
He was known as "The World's Oldest Teenager" from his many years of hosting "American Bandstand." And Dick Clark
NAB tells the FCC that it’s time for some dereg
According to the latest filing from the National Association of Broadcasters in regards to the 2010 Quadrennial Review, the only thing that has changed...