Chris Dodd meets with his new industry
Former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) is now the present Chairman/CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, and has been in Las Vegas to...
Mixed results in negative consumer confidence report
The latest survey of consumers regarding their sense of the economy had a pair of conflicting top-line results. Consumers sense of present conditions actually...
Election results are in for the NAB board
The votes have been tallied and a lot of familiar faces will be returning to the NAB Joint Board of Directors when 11 newly...
Fisher Japan Relief effort crosses half-million mark
Fisher Communications is helping the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in conjunction with the American Red Cross. Beginning with a daylong...
Revisiting valuations for Fisher Communications
RBR-TVBR analysis: With no recent benchmark for TV deal making, many in the television industry would argue that TV stations, with growing retrans revenue and the ever-larger political advertising windfall, should command a larger multiple
Nielsen reworks some debt
The Nielsen Finance subsidiary of Nielsen Holdings has reworked some of its debt – specifically the revolving credit commitments by a group of banks...
Home improvement suffering from skittish consumers
It’s the time of year when the thoughts of home-owners turn to major improvements to their living quarters, particularly in a bad real estate...
Disney reveals the actual vote tally for directors
Numerous press reports last week said Apple CEO Steve Jobs survived an organized campaign by some shareholders of The Walt Disney
Dawson "Tack" Nail dead at 82
It seems everyone in broadcasting, and particularly in the broadcasting trade press, knew Tack Nail. And certainly every FCC commissioner since the 1950s knew...
Anti-CPB watchdog wants equal airtime on public stations
It has not gone unnoticed by staffers at Americans for Limited Government that public broadcasting stations are using the time between programs to contact Congress in support of the service. ALG would like equal time to present the
Women broadcasters meeting in DC to look at ownership issue
It’s not just minorities that are concerned about the lack of broadcast licenses held by members of their particular population demographic. Female ownership of...
An insider's perspective on discriminatory advertising
The FCC recently released an eagerly awaited order on how it will enforce the FCC order on discriminatory advertising practices in the broadcast sector
Analysts bullish on Disney
Barclays Capital analysts Anthony DiClemente and Bo Tang have a
Nielsen, comScore in legal battle over online measurement patents
The two online measurement companies are locked in a patent infringement legal battle royale. Nielsen filed first on 3/16 the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, claiming comScore
Copps supports FCC action on political ad disclosure
Media Access Project has petitioned the FCC to build on its current authority regarding advertising sponsorship identification in order to ferret out the people paying to put political messages