WideOrbit partners with DAS for streamlined EAS automation
Digital Alert Systems, a division of Monroe Electronics and provider of enhanced EAS systems, has partnered with WideOrbit, provider of business management software for...
News Corp. buys Skiff, part of Journalism Online
More moves toward shoring up News Corp.’s plans for paid content walls: The media empire has bought the Skiff e-reading platform developed by Hearst...
NABEF announces collegiate service winners
The NAB Education Foundation (NABEF) announced the winners of the Call to Service Collegiate Competition, sponsored by NABEF and the McCormick Foundation. The competition...
DCCC adds 11 candidates to Red to Blue program
The Republican Party has been the one notably playing offense on this election cycle, but that isn’t stopping Democrats from targeting a few races...
Business highlights from the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs
Blackhawks Victory Fuels Sales Record for Shop.NHL.com; In-Arena Sales Up 129% For Final. Stanley Cup Snares Five Top 20 Searches on Google. "Right now the NHL can seemingly do no wrong
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...
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
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...
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...