Wanted: Coup de Grace Administrator for HD-AM
HD-AM needs to be killed right now. Form a single line, and no pushing and shoving, please. The late Bob Townsend, who resuscitated Avis Rent-A-Car with the famous
AFTRA Los Angeles election results
The Los Angeles Local of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA, AFL-CIO), a national union of more than 70,000 performers, recording...
Kellogg agrees with FTC to cool it on cereal health claims
The FTC and cereal manufacturer Kellogg Company had already come to terms over FTC objections to claims about Frosted Mini-Wheats when Kellogg set off...
49% of Americans score Obama administration low on Gulf spill
49% give poor or failing grade to President Obama for handling of Gulf Oil Spill. Economy, Healthcare and Deficit Top Concerns Regarding America’s Future. When...
iBiquity's real business plan?
The fact is that iBiquity doesn't care about interference because the only date in their calendar is the day the FCC approves their petition to sunset analog broadcasting. Then, interference
Stocks down across the board
Radio and TV stocks are falling along with the broader market after the government’s monthly jobs report, issued Friday morning, came in below expectations....
Oil rig dominates coverage during the last week of May
The fact that there is an oil rig crisis in the Gulf of Mexico is nothing new, but fresh coverage of the ongoing attempts...
Nielsen Company files for an IPO
RBR-TVBR first reported in January 2007 that The Nielsen Company, until then known as VNU, would be reworked by its private equity investors for an IPO. That reworking has been accomplished and
Politically-motivated groups ready to open their midterm wallets
A Washington Post survey of more than 20 politically-interested groups reveals spending plans in the $400M range, an amount that will push total political...
Is Jelli the future of radio?
The success of Internet-based services is based less on innovation, and more on the ability to give the illusion of innovation by adapting well-established practices to the web
At long last, Moody’s sees newspapers stabilizing
Revenues are still declining, but the rate of decline has slowed for US newspapers. With major cost-cuts already in place, Moody’s Investors Service sees earnings gains for newspapers and has labeled the sector outlook “stable”
Feder exposes Tribune execs who "desecrated" Tribune Tower
Chicago blogger and veteran media critic Rob Feder has posted a column with photos of CEO Randy Michaels and other Tribune Company executives holding a poker party in the palatial Tribune Tower office that once belonged to the company’s patriarch
BP Oil gusher: 7 in 10 say 'BP' nor 'Obama' have no clue
As BP shares plunge and the U.S. attorney general launches a criminal probe into the worst oil spill in U.S. history, Americans don’t appear...
Activists want the FCC on the beat against internet, radio and cable hate speech
Saying that modern media platforms are proving conducive to hate speech, and that in particular, ownership consolidation has turned hate into a successful business model...
Lionsgate ups revenues, drops loss
As Lionsgate battles to stay out of the clutches of Carl Icahn, the TV and movie production company reported that revenues for its fiscal...