Kay Bailey Hutchison likely facing intramural challenge in 2012
The Ranking Member of the key Senate Commerce Committee, Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), is actually in the Senate on borrowed time, if she were...
Jerry Peterson dead at 76
Longtime Carolina broadcaster Gerald “Jerry” Lee Peterson died Friday, November 26th, shortly after his last broadcast on WRHI-AM Rock Hill, SC. He was 76.
Peterson...
AT&T U-verse adds 1,200 hours of HBO, Cinemax programming online
In another move to make TV content available in more places, AT&T announced that AT&T U-verse TV customers now have full access to HBOGO.com...
Big-name transient Democrats said to be up for MPAA
For decades, the Motion Picture Association of America did not have to worry about who would lead its operations in Washington – those duties...
Prisa goes public in US via investment deal
Grupo Prisa (Promotora de Informaciones SA), Spain's largest media conglomerate, has gotten a big cash infusion to fund its expansion in the US and...
Survey says holiday spending will be on the down side of flat
Predictions on how the annual holiday shopping spree will go this year are, as usual, all over the map. If we have seen a...
Univision Communications bond tender oversubscribed
Univision Communications was quite successful with its tender offer to buy back up to $460 million of its senior notes due 2015. It was...
Strange tender for General Electric stock
A Canadian investment fund, TRC Capital, has made a tender offer for General Electric’s stock. But the so-called “mini-tender” is only for a small...
News Corp. to buy Wireless Generation
News Corp. has signed a deal to acquire 90% of Wireless Generation, a private NYC-based education technology company for $360 million in cash. Wireless...
Think tanker suggests new approach to combat obesity
Hank Cardello, a Hudson Institute Visiting Fellow, suggests that decades of attempts to improve the quality of food sold to Americans in order to...
WideOrbit named to San Francisco Business Times Fast 100
WideOrbit, provider of business management software for media companies, has been named one of the Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Bay...
Netflix launches subscription plan for streaming over the internet
With its members now watching more content streamed over the Internet than on discs delivered by mail, Netflix, introduced a $7.99 streaming-only monthly subscription...
Bronfman and Ferguson square off
Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. recently weighed in on the Performance Royalty Act (PRA) standoff between the record labels and the NAB
CBS News unveils new journalism diversity initiatives
Sean McManus, President CBS News and Sports, announced an array of new initiatives by CBS News designed to further promote diversity and excellence in...
Winners announced for the 2010 American Music Awards
Winners of the 38th Annual American Music Awards (AMAs) were announced Sunday evening from the Nokia Theatre, L.A LIVE. The show aired live on...