Hugh Hefner bids to take Playboy private
Like so many other public companies, Playboy Enterprises is trading well below where its stock price was before the recession. Sensing an
Journal Broadcast/Omaha teams with Susan G. Komen
Journal Broadcast Group Omaha Operations is using the power of its combined media voices to support the upcoming Susan G. Komen Nebraska Race for...
Tribune365 adds travel marketing arm
Tribune365, the national sales solutions group for Tribune Company, today named Lisa Theodore to head up the company’s travel and international sales and marketing...
NABEF enlisting broadcasters to fight childhood obesity
First Lady Michelle Obama has some potent allies in her pursuit of the “Let's Move” anti-childhood obesity effort. Television and radio operators, with the...
MTV Networks acquires social gaming company
Viacom’s MTV Networks announced that it has acquired Social Express Inc., a social gaming development company. The move marks MTV Networks’ first entry into...
Watchdogs ready to spend cash in order to restrict cash
The Disclose Act is not the only campaign finance bill kicking around on Capitol Hill. The less-heralded Fair Elections Now Act has 157 supporters...
Time Warner raises $3 billion
The bond market still appears to be open for media companies. Time Warner Inc. announced that it had sold three new issues of $1 billion each. The proceeds will be used to retire some existing debt and for general corporate purposes.
Unions spending on campaigns, corporations not so much
The Washington Post is reporting that organized labor is taking advantage of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, leading the way in independent campaign...
Carl Wagner dead at 76
Long-time Taft Broadcasting executive Carl Wagner died June 28th, just a few days before what would have been his 77th birthday on July 6th....
Video games coming under fire
Watchdog groups are concerned about the bonds between kids and video games for a number of reasons. Among them are the promotion by some...
Forecasts Are a Mixed Bag: when will Obama listen, hear and learn
RBR-TVBR observation: The unemployment report was not bright but maybe not as grim either but no matter what, the economy is struggling to get...
Univision futbol app ready for iPad
Univision Interactive Media announced that the Univision Fútbol App was released for iPad in time for the games, bringing its mobile coverage of the...
AFTRA works to uncover BP oil spill story
Concerned that reporters are being denied access to public areas and public officials in regards to the BP oil spill, (AFTRA) announced it will begin work to open up the story to full coverage
Stifel and Weisel complete investment bank merger
Two investment banking firms which have both had involvement in the media space have become one. Thomas Weisel Partners Group is no more, having been merged into
ION launches microsite for Without A Trace
For seven years, viewers analyzed and did their best to crack the toughest missing persons cases on television as they watched the hit primetime...