Clear Channel extends, boosts bond buyback
An offer to buy back up to $200 million of the outstanding bonds of Clear Channel Communications’ CC Finco subsidiary had been scheduled to...
Sirius XM sells some bonds
Sirius XM announced that it had priced an offering of $257 million of Senior Secured Notes due 2015. They will bear interest at an...
Marriage plans for MFM and INFE
Holding their annual conferences together back in May worked out so well that Interactive and Newsmedia Financial Executives (INFE) and the Media Financial Management...
Media revenues only up division for Nielsen
Q2 revenues fell 5.9% for The Nielsen Company, but the company nonetheless managed to grown operating income. The Media segment, including the
CNN Pulls Plug
In response to your story about CNN pulling radio talk show hosts as guests I'd like to add a quick opinion. I think CNN is doing the right thing at the moment. It's a tough call but as we all know that are such things "still" as journalistic ethics
Retrans up, ad sales down at Nexstar
Like many other broadcasters, Nexstar CEO Perry Sook says it looks like core ad spending is finding a bottom, with net revenues down 12%...
SBS reports decline for both radio and TV
Even start-up Mega TV saw revenues decline in Q2, but not nearly as much as the radio group at Spanish Broadcasting System.Net revenues for...
Two AP journalists injured in Afghanistan
The Associated Press reports that two of its journalists embedded with US troops in Afghanistan were wounded Tuesday in a roadside bombing. Photographer Emilio...
Scarborough Research adds cell-phone-only to sample
With more and more homes going without a landline phone, Scarborough Research announced that it will incorporate cell-phone-only (CPO) users into the sample frame...
TV pirates on the horizon
Part of the reason pirates never really got into TV was the cost of equipment versus transmitter availability. As the LPTV & translators eventually move from NTSC to ATSC, the ability to get a hold of transmitter and antenna that a pirate could
Geller on CNN pulling radio show guests
TVNewser has learned, and a CNN spokesperson confirms, that in an editorial meeting this week, CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein asked his show producers to...
Cuomo stops car dealers from running “deceptive” clunker ads
NY Newsday reports NY State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has issued "cease and desist" orders to about 40 New York auto dealers for what...
Saving WLIU
WLIU-FM is Long Island’s only local National Public Radio station—and it is threatened. Long Island University—under major economic pressure—has decided it can no longer...
MMTC reasserts nondiscrimination in ad sales contracts
David Honig, President and Executive Director of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, fired off a letter to FCC Chair Julius Genachowski Regarding its July 15, 2008 request that the
Mega Media Group files Chapter 11
Less than a month after saying it had gotten a reprieve from major creditors, Mega Media Group has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection....