Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Gray keeps buying back its preferred stock

A few weeks after buying back $4.8 million of its Series D perpetual preferred stock Gray Television has closed another deal to buy back...

Analyst analyzes buying spree at Dish

Dish Network has been busy on the acquisition front lately. It paid $1.38 billion for TerreStar Networks after shelling out $1.4 billion for DBSD and $320 million for Blockbuster. What is the grand plan?

Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO

Steve Jobs, who has been on his third medical leave, has now resigned as CEO of Apple Inc. At his recommendation, Tim Cook has...

Satisfied customers pale in comparison to connected customers

A retailer can make a good living selling quality merchandise at a reasonable price and generate a high percentage of satisfied customers. But the...

Broadcasting cited as part of emergency preparedness plan

With the hurricane season upon us and with a particular hurricane by the name Irene bearing down on the East Coast of the United States,

6.0 Virginia earthquake evacuates DC offices

Hit Mineral, VA (50 miles NW of Richmond) about 1:50 PM impacted DC government buildings. RBR-TVBR

JANA spells out plan to bust-up McGraw-Hill

JANA Partners and the Ontario Teachers

Rock is…not quite dead yet

Gentlemen, Pertaining to your editorial of August 18 declaring that Rock radio was dying and incapable of generating listenership amongst an 18-34 year old...

Moody's gives CBS Corporation an upgrade

It was just a few days ago that Moody

DC political committees funding for 2012

The books have been closed on another month of fund-raising by the six national strategic political committees. The RNC, DNC and the four congressional...

News Corp. says it knows who ordered phone hack

News Corp. officials have identified the person from the weekly tabloid's staff who commissioned a private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, to target murdered Millie Dowler's phone. This all adds up to an acknowledgment that the tabloid targeted her phone

Rock radio is not dying

Last week, in the wake of the CBS flip of WYSP to Sports, you ran a story essentially declaring that rock radio was in...

There is an upside to falling stock prices

Investors certainly want to see the prices of the stocks they own go up. But while potential growth is the main reason to invest in a stock, there

Disney prices bond offerings

The Walt Disney Company didn