PAC attack: Democrats outraise Republicans in May
The six national party-linked political action committees hauled in over $32M in campaign funding during the month of May between them, with the edge...
WWE strikes content deal with YouTube
World Wrestling Entertainment and YouTube announced a multi-year partnership that will make full episodes of WWE “Friday Night SmackDown,” “WWE NXT,” “WWE Superstars” and...
NYSBA announces 2010 Hall of Fame nominees
Film critic and entertainment reporter Dan DiNicola, political and business leader Percy Sutton, FM radio pioneer Scott Muni, veteran radio broadcaster Jim Roselle, and...
Sun-Times repping NY Times Chicago editions for dealers
Sun-Times Media has reached an agreement with The New York Times to offer Chicago luxury auto dealers ad opportunities to help them better target...
Consolidation debate hits the mainstream
The ongoing battle over media consolidation and FCC rules regarding ownership is well-known to consumers of the trade press, but it
VSS and Ares announce media lending partnership
Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS), a private equity and mezzanine lending firm already well known in broadcasting and other media circles
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...