Lincoln Financial Group to exit TARP by selling new securities
Insurance giant Lincoln Financial Group (LFG), whose holdings include the Lincoln Financial Media (LFM) radio group, announced plans to repay the US Treasury and...
NPR, PBS, American Public Media, PRI, PRX to share digital platform
Public radio and television have kicked off an effort to develop a digital distribution network that will allow public broadcasters and web producers to...
So what’s with the strange hum during World Cup games?
The strange noise viewers an listeners are hearing during World Cup games is the sound of thousands of “vuvuzelas,” long plastic horns popular with South African soccer fans, who blow them relentlessly during games. Played by producing
Brokers hanging tough in tough transaction market
The National Association of Media Brokers is reporting stable membership year-over-year, which is no mean feat in a business that the financiers of the...
Democratic campaign pros seeking to create campaign fund
Three veterans of the election wars, noting the creation of private organizations being formed to support Republican candidates this year, are kicking off an...
Coalition of organizations opposes Disclose Act
Watchdog Americans for Tax Reform is leading an effort by a coalition of watchdogs and interest groups urging the defeat of the Disclose Act, which is an attempt to address the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling that opened the faucet of political money
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...