Entertainment bean-counters expect big things from digital
Demand is growing for internet-delivered entertainment, and eventually, so to will the revenues it will generate for entertainment companies. But it will require
EMI names Roger Faxon CEO
EMI Group says it plans to combine EMI Recorded Music and EMI Music Publishing under one global leader, and is planning to reposition itself...
Oil rig disaster continues to dominate the news
The ongoing saga of Deepwater Horizon pulled a 34% share of all news coverage during the week of 6/7-13/10, according to the latest tally...
Conservative PAC playing in 11 US Senate races
A brand new conservative political interest group, touted by brand-name Republicans like Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, has pledged to spend $50M this campaign...
Executive suite reworked at KQED Public Media
San Francisco-based KQED Public Media announced a major restructuring of senior management positions under new President and CEO John Boland, who took the helm...
Criterion Capital acquires Bebo from AOL
Criterion Capital Partners, LLC, a merchant banking and financial advisory firm based in the US, has acquired Bebo, the youth-centric social media network, from...
Price/value most important in choosing cell service plans
Cell phones are necessary tools by which many Americans get information these days, with an increasing number of people looking for phones which offer...
FCC kicks off process to farm out media study projects
Media ownership rules are designed to promote three things: competition, localism, and diversity; and the FCC has nine questions it would like answered in...
Jack Neff dead at 87
John L. Neff, known to many broadcasters for decades as Jack, died June 6th at age 87. He was the long-time owner of DataWorld...
Icahn boosts Lionsgate stake to 32%
Only 13% of all Lionsgate Entertainment shares were tendered for billionaire Carl Icahn’s $7 per share offer, but that will boost Icahn’s stake to...
Radio One doing refi and upping TV One stake
Radio One announced a multi-layered refinancing deal which will cover just about all of its existing debt and also allow the company to increase...
NAB Boards elect their chairs
Steve Newberry, CEO of Commonwealth Broadcasting, has been elected to a second term as Chairman of the NAB Joint Board. The TV Board chair...
59 news organizations win National Edward R. Murrow Awards
The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) has announced the 2010 National Edward R. Murrow Award winners. In all, 59 news organizations received the...
Lincoln Financial Group prices stock and bond offerings
Wall Street was quite receptive to the stock and bond offerings to raise cash for Lincoln Financial Group to repay the US Treasury and exit the TARP program. The insurance/radio (the latter being rather small) company easily raised $1.085 billion
Rasmussen: America is mad at the media
Almost two thirds of those polled by Rasmussen Reports – 66% -- say they are at least somewhat angry at the media. Only 31%...