Aurelius wants Tribune management replaced
RBR-TVBR readers will remember Aurelius Capital Management as an activist securities holder in the Citadel Broadcasting Chapter 11 bankruptcy, trying unsuccessfully to change the...
FCC
Republican FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker cited the First Amendment and a 200-year tradition of a strong independent press as reasons to allow the journalism...
Disney/ABC, Nielsen pact for iPad app that syncs with content
This is the first app built on Nielsen’s Media-Sync Platform, which uses audio watermarking to synchronize mobile devices to TV programming. ABC’s “My Generation...
New release underscores futility of overzealous indecency rules
A new work of art in the song category is being released in three forms – an audio recording, a video and a ring-tone,...
Philadelphia newspaper sale called off
Having failed to come to terms with the Teamsters Union, Philadelphia Media Network Inc. has called off its $139 million purchase of the Philadelphia...
Warner Bros. Records management shakeup
Warner Music Group (WMG) announced a new senior management team for Warner Bros. Records, the label group which includes the Warner Bros., Asylum, Nonesuch,...
Tribune creditors want right to sue Sam Zell
Unsecured creditors of Tribune Company have asked Federal Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Carey for permission to sue Sam Zell and others involved in the 2007
Hispanic media watchdog wants FCC to collect employment data
The National Hispanic Media Coalition says it used to be able to study the level of Hispanic employment at US broadcast outlets, thanks to...
Union dispute may scuttle Philly newspaper sale
It looked like the ownership of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News was decided in April, but there’s been an unexpected twist. The buyer...
Families express financial optimism, practice frugality
If the economic collapse has done one thing, it has made the average consumer much more careful with spending habits. Against that backdrop, a...
LIN bonds listed for public trading
To buy the 8 3/8% senior notes that LIN Media’s LIN Television Corporation sold back in April you had to be a big institutional...
CBS News launches app for iPad
It’s now available for free in the App Store. The CBS News iPad app is the latest product in an expanding line of CBS...
Canadian conglomerate strikes major media merger
Bell Canada holds 15% of key multimedia Canadian group CTV, worth $200M. It has a deal to acquire the remaining 85% for $1.3B, and with assumed debt added in, the total value of the deal balloons to $3.2B. The deal will bring CTV
MediaDisasterPrep.com is live
Howard Price, CBCP, Dir., Business Continuity & Crisis Management, ABC News, has just put up MediaDisasterPrep.com (www.mediadisasterprep.com), his free website dedicated to the exchange...