Salem to pay special cash dividend to shareholders
Salem Communications is sitting on some cash and decided to share it with the company’s shareholders. The company will pay a special cash dividend...
Metro Traffic signs Cox Radio/Miami
Westwood One’s Metro Traffic announced a multi-year agreement with Cox Radio stations WHQT-FM, WEDR-FM, WHDR-FM, and WFLC-FM in Miami. Metro Traffic will now be...
Senate Commerce GOP roster may be due for a change
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) is currently the Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, and presumably will continue in that role for another...
Sam Zell says Tribune is better as he prepares to exit (video)
Not that he really has any choice in it, but Tribune Company Chairman Sam Zell told CNBC that he sees no role for himself in the company as
TV drove Q3 growth for LBI Media while radio was flat
Spanish broadcasting specialist LBI Media, parent company of Liberman Broadcasting Inc., reported that Q3 revenues were up 11.6% to $30.7 million. The growth all...
Benefits of allowing alternate modulation schemes on U.S. TV broadcast spectrum
The television broadcast industry has for many years been lagging behind the dramatic growth enjoyed by other wireless communications
Melinda Gates leaves Washington Post Company board
Most of the time the resignation of a single member from the board of directors at a large public company is little noticed –...
CBS Radio, Journal, Post Newsweek adding eDeals.com retail platform
Coupons are a big business these days in the U.S., considering the economic straits we're in. To compete against the Groupon invasion, a few...
Los Angeles, West Hollywood looking at billboard tax
Municipalities in the major southern California media market are looking for new revenue sources, and they think they have a winner with a tax on outdoor advertising venues. A billboard tax initiative is being put before voters in March 2011
Entry open for Celebration of Service to America Awards
The National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation (NABEF) is seeking entries for the 13th annual Celebration of Service to America Awards, an event that...
Disney report wasn
Wall Street traders beat up on The Walt Disney Company after its fiscal Q4 numbers were released. But analysts Anthony DiClemente and Bo Tang at Barclays Capital have delved deeply into the quarter
Law & Order: SVU, NYU, AOL partner for screening, panel
The producers of the hit Wolf Films/NBC series “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” have partnered with NYU and AOL TV to screen a...
Rupert Murdoch serving lunch to critic Media Matters
Liberal media watchdog Media Matters recently participated in and won a charity auction. The prize: Lunch for MM’s founder David Brock and five of...
Newsweek and The Daily Beast to merge
Following weeks of rumors and speculation, The Daily Beast and Newsweek announced that they will merge. The new joint venture will be equally owned...
What radio really needs
The year was 2003, seven years ago, by my finger count or the usual time between finishing high school and earning PHD status, when we set up a wire-card for a lap-top with