VOD to hit 50% of households by 2016
The revised year-end 2016 forecast for DVR Subscriber Households now stands at 61.8 million (50% of TV households), up from 37.9 million (32% of...
Conference Board sees uptick in consumer confidence
Reports on both consumer and CEO confidence have been decidedly on the optimistic side of late, and the latest from the Conference Board is...
Univision buying back more bonds
Univision Communications announced another tender offer to buy back some of its more expensive debt. The company has commenced a tender offer to purchase...
Tom Mock, inventor/engineer, passes
Kelly Christensen, StratosAudio CEO, tells RBR-TVBR that the company’s Engineering Liaison Tom Mock has passed at 76 while at his home in Sheffield, PA...
Shareholders to vote on corporate paychecks
The Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3-2 Tuesday (1/25) to let shareholders vote in the future on the compensation of corporate bosses. The two...
Culture Minister holds up News Corporation deal in UK
In the United States, media mergers generally need approval from the FCC and DOJ – and sometimes the FTC. In the United Kingdom, though,...
A big media IPO day is at hand
Keep your fingers crossed. The Nielsen Company is hoping to raise about $2 billion in an IPO so its stock can start trading on Wednesday and Demand Media is also selling stock for the first time, to the tune of a little over $100 million. How well those
AFTRA and SAG moving forward on union merger
The National Board of Directors of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) overwhelmingly passed a resolution formally authorizing AFTRA leadership to...
State of US highways bemoaned
The American Society of Civil Engineers thinks that it is high time that something is done about US infrastructure, and in particular, the urban...
Verizon drags FCC into court over network neutrality
Telco giant Verizon has decided that the FCC
The Broadcast Broadband Alternative
Part III of a 3-part series: The objective of this three part series has been to attempt to inform the broadcast community and policy...
University of Houston seeking leader for merged media
Having recently struck a deal to add a second FM radio station, the University of Houston is now planning to merge its radio and TV...
Free Speech TV adds The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann
Dial Global Progressive radio talker Thom Hartmann (The Thom Hartmann Program), and host of The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann on TV is now...
Washington Post upping dividend, retiring Buffett
The Washington Post Company announced that it is increasing its cash dividend to shareholders. On the same day it announced that Warren
Nexstar makes exchange offer for bonds
The common pattern now is for a company to sell bonds in a private offering, then register new bonds for public trading and exchange...