Breaking: CBS Q4 results
Local broadcasting, CBS Television Stations and CBS Radio, revenues up 21% to $821.5 million. TV ad revenues up 28%, radio up 14%.Entertainment, CBS Network,...
Clear Channel amends loan terms
As planned when it announced Q4 results last week, Clear Channel Communications has amended the terms of its senior credit facilities to allow it...
Quaal Pioneer Award recipients named
It’ll seem like a trip back to the 1990s at the Broadcasters Foundation of America breakfast April 13th in Las Vegas with Bob Sillerman...
BackChannelMedia rebrands as BCM
BackChannelMedia, which offers an interactive EBIF RFI (Request for Information) application (Clickable TV) for cable operators and local broadcasters to offer to advertisers, announced...
More detail on Harris buy of SpotRunner Malibu Media platform
RBR-TVBR spoke with Bob Duncan, VP/GM, Media Software Solutions, Harris Broadcast Communications, on the recent buy of Spot Runner's Malibu Media platform, an online...
What really happened at CES
Sometimes the best way to evaluate an event as massive as the Consumer Electronics Show is to take some time to digest the info overload, sort out
Retail spending grew in January
Retail Industry Leaders Association says that the December holiday spending season was strong, and that means that a very small month-over-month increase in spending...
Mario Gabelli touts break-up value of Fisher Communications (video)
As the largest investor in Fisher Communications, Mario Gabelli has stayed officially neutral on the bid by Huntingdon REIT to buy him out and all
Newspaper still a drag as broadcast grows Journal Communications
Q4 revenues grew 7.8% to $103.7 million at Journal Communications, but it was all due to broadcast, with revenues up 22.1% to $56.3 million....
Commissioners booked for first 2011 Hill visit
The topic: Network neutrality. Two House panels have put it on this week’s schedule. Judiciary will go first, with a session scheduled for 2/15/11,...
EchoStar makes $2 billion satellite broadband acquisition
Charlie Ergen is making big moves to try to erase the advantage that terrestrial cable MSOs have over satellite TV: broadband delivery. Just a few days after Dish Network cut a $1 billion deal
CBS earnings report on tap this week
The biggest pure-play broadcasting company, CBS Corporation, reports its earnings Wednesday (2/16) after the market closes. Based on its strong ratings and ad sales...
Creditor votes favor Tribune reorganization plan
The votes are in and Tribune Company reports that the overwhelming majority of the company’s creditors favor the Chapter 11 reorganization plan backed by...
Nearly all broadcasting stocks gaining on Friday
An announcement that Hosni Mubarak had resigned as President of Egypt, putting the army in charge, was greeted with relief on Wall Street. Stock...