Mnet expands carriage deal with Comcast
Mnet, a 24/7 English-language network in the U.S. targeting Asian Americans and fans of Asian pop culture, has reached a new carriage deal with...
ValueVision selling some stock to cash out GE
ValueVision Media, which operates under the “ShopNBC” for TV shopping, has sold $51.6 million of new stock. The net proceeds after offering costs of...
More on reinventing News on TV…or any screen
The strengths of television: Pictures, Graphics and Visuals: In a visual environment, it's hard to beat TV for the eye. It's everywhere. Big screens,...
General Electric facing hefty tax bill for NBCU sale
New York Times has gotten a lot of attention for a story published with claims that General Electric paid zero US federal taxes last year. Not only is that not true, but GE is facing a much bigger tax bill
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...