Candidacy/advertising rights dispute under review
Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry says he is a bona fide Democratic candidate for President of the United States, and afforded all of the legal rights that accompany that status
Reluctant super PAC targeting House Republicans
CREDO Mobile claims to hate super PACs, but since Super PACs are here right now for better or worse, and perhaps on the theory...
FCC issues fine for website contest
An FCC fine against six Clear Channel Los Angeles stations serves to affirm the FCC
Facebook financials come out in IPO filing
Facebook’s IPO filing 2/1 aims to raise $5 billion in what could be the largest-ever Internet IPO. The initial public stock offering values the...
Broadcasters irreplaceable as emergency first informers
When the chips are down and a community is in peril, citizens need information – often life-saving information. And as a rule, there is...
Super PACs raking in cash
There figures to be a lot of cash spent in the 2012 election cycle, above and beyond what the candidates themselves plan on spending....
Broadcast complaints continue at trickle pace
The FCC just released its inquiry and complaint charts for Q3 2011, just a few weeks after releasing charts for the first two quarters...
Thom Hartmann and "The Big Picture" go global
Thom Hartmann is taking his hour-long, nationally syndicated independent television program “The Big Picture” global, as RT International is now syndicating the show to...
Greg Walden ready to forward bill to rein in FCC
Republican leadership in the House Communications Subcommittee spent a great deal of time in 2011 working on a bill to increase transparency and decrease...
Clear Channel, Bain Capital, Lee invest big in Ryan Seacrest
Clear Channel and Ryan Seacrest Media (RSM), together with Clear Channel’s majority investors Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital, announced two new investment...
Florida primary spend detailed
Media Monitors released its study of radio spots that were run in Florida leading up to the 1/31 Primary Election. Media Monitors got numbers...
Lack of political drowns Gannett TV in red ink
It’s the same old story for television broadcasters – take away even-year political revenues and take away any reasonable chance for favorable odd-year comps over...
Meredith keeps its dividend tradition alive
A share of stock in multimedia Meredith Corporation will bring you a quarterly dividend of thirty-eight and a quarter cents, which amounts to one dollar and fifty-three cents on an annual basis. Meredith says it is continuing a 65-year dividend-paying
SAG/AFTRA merger approved by board
The next stop is membership
Facebook readies the IPO that has Wall Street salivating
Investors who have been waiting anxiously for the opportunity to place their bets on Facebook may not have to wait much longer. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday (1/27) that the social media company