Earnings rise, dividend doubled at CBS
Revenues were essentially flat in Q1, despite the lack of the Super Bowl this year, but profits shot skyward for CBS Corporation. The company
Dish raises two billion bucks
Wall Street likes the satellite TV business. Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network had no trouble raising $2 billion with a new offering of 10-year senior...
Broadcasters teaming for tornado telethon
The Alabama Broadcasters Association (ABA) is rallying radio and TV stations to promote the United Way Tornado Relief Telethon beginning Wednesday (5/4). The telethon...
CPB marshals local TV and radio to stem tide of drop-outs
The Corporation for Public Broadcastings believes that the million students who drop out of school each year translates into a $3 trillion hit on...
Fisher welcomes support for management slate
Big institutional investors own shares in lots and lots of companies, so they often rely on advisory firms to help them decide how to vote in contested
Broadcast public interest standard not in the public interest?
Communications attorney Erwin Krasnow says that the Congress that first regulated the airwaves never intended for the regulation to come with a public interest...
SAG and AFTRA moving ahead with merger plans
The Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors has unanimously approved the creation of a Merger Task Force to work with their AFTRA counterparts in developing a formal plan to unite SAG and AFTRA members in one union. The unions
Charter to sell California cable systems?
St. Louis-based Charter Communications, which emerged from bankruptcy in 2009, has reportedly hired Citigroup and Goldman Sachs Group to sell its southern California systems....
Guarded optimism expected in latest round of quarterlies
Has the economy shown signs of recovery? Yes. Is it storming back into a state of robust health? Not so much
PAC formed by Democrats to counter Republican organizations
Democrats from President Barack Obama on down have generally been highly critical of Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, but at least one group has...
The biggest scam of all time
In 1964 we built the first 24 input to Scully ½ inch 4-track that we we’re aware of in Florida. Our microphones were Telefunkens...
Government, children, food and marketing converge in Washington
Many food and media companies observe voluntary guidelines when it comes to the marketing of food to children between the ages of 2-17. But...
Broadcasters step up when disaster strikes
A particularly violent pattern of spring time weather has been hitting different portions of the United States at different times, and at all times,...
Ratings agencies like Univision refinancing moves
Univision Communications is set to sell $600 million in senior secured notes due 2019, using the proceeds to redeem some more expensive notes which otherwise would come due in 2014. Both Moody
More delay in new FCC ownership proceeding expected
Former FCC Chairman Kevin Martin