Special cash dividend to Outdoor Channel Holdings shareholders
Outdoor Channel Holdings is not a regular dividend payer, but its board of directors has announced a special distribution to shareholders. The one-time cash...
Media campaign incomplete without air force
Many advertisers rely on the air waves to get their message out – meaning they use radio and television for advertising purposes. Newspapers and...
Charles "Charlie" Brown passes
Charlie Brown, former head of CIT's Communication and Media Group, passed away recently in Seguin, Texas. He was 73. During his career he worked...
iHeartRadio debuts on Microsoft's Xbox 360
This is the beginning of a long battle with Pandora for integration in consumer electronics devices and the dashboard. Bear in mind, just on the consumer electronics side, Pandora is already bundled with many WiFi
Media General makes more cuts in Tampa
The Tampa Tribune, which certainly has the inside scoop, reports that Media General has laid off 165 staffers at the Tampa Tribune and its non-daily sister newspapers in the Tampa Bay area
Electronics are hot sellers this holiday season
The number one product category that will be finding its way to a presumably delighted gift recipient (how’s that for journalistic-taking-nothing-for-granted) is clothing (it...
Business got worse for newspapers in Q3
The great newspaper man Sam Zell once said that classified revenues can
NY man says Clear Channel, American Eagle stole billboard idea (video)
A Manhattan man says American Eagle Outfitters and Clear Channel ripped off his idea for a
Survey says four and ten still doing holiday shopping
There are a lot of reasons given by those who are not yet done with this year’s gift-buying spree – bargain hunting, procrastination and...
Gray keeps buying back preferred shares
Gray Television announced that on December 9th it completed the repurchase of an additional 68.73 shares of its Series D perpetual preferred stock in...
Lee Enterprises files Chapter 11
Newspaper group owner (and former TV group owner) Lee Enterprises told shareholders earlier this month that it would file a prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
Sanders and Deutch: Corporations are not people too
There have been numerous legislative attempts to blunt the effects of the Supreme Court Citizens United ruling, but Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Ted Deutch (D-FL) have decided to go one step further.
Tribune bankruptcy: Three years and counting
Back a year ago it was a pretty sure bet that 2011 would bring the end of Tribune
Fitch puts 2012 outlook for media sector at steady
Outlook for the US Media & Entertainment sector is stable. The coming year driven by modest growth in ad spending amid elevated macroeconomic risk, and bolstered by a banner year for political advertising.
2012, coming to an FCC near you
FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell said that the still-in-the-works review of media ownership policy should be of major interest, judging by the excitement and controversy the issue has consistently aroused in recent years.