TV recovery stronger than radio at Journal Broadcast Group
Television revenue growth outpaced radio in Q1 at Journal Broadcast Group. According to Journal Communications CEO Steve Smith, TV is also the stronger performer...
Cox Enterprises reports revenue drop in 2009
Privately owned Cox Enterprises doesn’t disclose a lot of financial information to the public. However, it has announced that total 2009 revenues were $14.7...
FCC sets up another media ownership workshop
The date and venue of the next installment of the FCC’s Quadrennial Review road show is now officially on the calendar. Stanford CA will...
Broadcasting leading the way for Journal Communications
Revenues at Journal Broadcast Group were up 8.6% in Q1. Even so, the newspaper business was still down and Journal Communications saw total revenues...
Democrats ready to dig in on defense
Political prognosticators have been coming to the conclusion that it is not a good year to be in incumbent, and since they have a...
RadioTime releases Android app
RadioTime, developer of technology for finding and listening to radio online, announced the immediate availability of its mobile app for the Android smart phone...
Moody’s less gloomy about newspapers
It can hardly be called “bullish,” but at least Moody's Investors Service has changed its Industry Sector Outlook for the US newspaper sector to...
Jeff Smulyan responds to "FM receivers in cell phones" issue
Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan responded to RBR-TVBR’s recent story (Getting FM into cell phones may not come quickly)
FCC’s NBP architect on the way out
There was never any secret about the fact that Blair Levin considered being Executive Director of the Omnibus Broadband Initiative at the Federal Communications...
Gannet results bode well for two media
Multimedia corporation Gannett suffered revenue reversals in Q1 2010, but they were not nearly as severe as they were the prior year, and were...
Reflections on the 2010 NAB Show
There’s no doubt about it, business is better and the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas was the most upbeat in recent years. Yes,...
Boucher books 3rd broadband hearing before holding the 2nd
The House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet postponed a planned 4/15/10 follow-up hearing on the National Broadband Plan, and has one on...
The savvy, talented broadcast investors
The recent announcement of the Dickey – Crestview Partners alliance is indeed exciting. God knows the radio business needs it. The last two years have been
News focus is all over the map in April’s second week
The dominant news story for some time has been health case, but during the week of 4/5-11/10, it almost fell off the radar screen,...
Florida Senate race could split three ways
Not only is the state of Florida holding an election for US Senate this year, the seat in question is open. At one time,...