Lionsgate battle heading to the finish line
Neither the management of Lionsgate Entertainment nor corporate raider Carl Icahn are backing down as Wednesday’s (6/16) deadline approaches for Icahn’s tender offer to...
Bob Bell dead at 73
Veteran Nashville broadcaster Bob Bell died Thursday (6/10) of cancer at his home in Springfield, TN. He was 73.According to the Austin & Bell...
Gulf oil spill dominates news coverage again
For the second week in a row, news of the oil rig explosion made it into the 30s in the Project for Excellence in...
FTC continues to hammer away at misleading remedy ads
Pharmacy chain Rite Aid is the latest to run afoul of the Federal Trade Commission for the marketing and sale of a cold and...
Game40 grows on the Internet
Game40 is Union Radio’s multi-platform product dedicated to the videogame industry, with versions in radio, television, magazine and Internet. So far the online section...
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke says the music industry on verge of collapse
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is warning the music industry is on the brink of collapse, insisting young musicians should resist signing record deals because the major labels will "completely fold" within months, reports Celebrity Buzz
Watchdog barks in favor of transparent ex parte presentations
Free Press has weighed in on the FCC’s plans to open up the ex parte process so that interested parties can learn about who...
Hoak Media revamps station sites
WorldNow, an online technology, content and revenue-solutions company for local media, announced that Hoak Media's KSFY-TV Sioux Falls, SD, www.ksfy.com, and KALB-TV Alexandria, LA,...
Dial Global's Clark Howard signs with HLN
Dial Global’s Clark Howard has signed a two-year contract with CNN’s HLN, where his 30-minute Clark Howard show airs multiple times on weekends and...
On "unacceptable" ad language
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Viacom resumes dividend, buying back stock
While spun-off CBS Corporation has continued to pay cash dividends to its shareholders, Viacom called a halt in early 2009. Now the company is...
Rasmussen: Few want government to add newspaper taxes
74% of those surveyed in a recent Rasmussen poll said they are opposed to the notion recently unearthed in an FTC navel-gazing study of the media under which they proposed taxing the
Sam Zell bids to buy a Network
This has nothing to do with broadcasting, but Tribune Company Chairman Sam Zell’s private equity company has submitting a non-binding letter of interest to...
Union workers at odds with Cablevision
Having paid $650 million to buy Newsday two years ago, Cablevision is now finding it hard to stem the flow of red ink at...
12 broadcast groups form steering committee for Mobile Content Venture
Mobile Content Venture (MCV), the recently-announced mobile content joint venture comprised of 12 major broadcast groups, announced that Erik Moreno, SVP of Corporate Development...