52nd Grammy Award winners

The list of the winners of the 52nd Grammy Awards. Album Of The Year"Fearless" - Taylor SwiftRecord Of The Year"Use Somebody" - Kings Of...

News Corporation to pay Valassis $500 million

Rather than go to trial on Tuesday (2/2), News Corporation on Saturday announced that it had agreed to pay Valassis Communications a half billion...

Voter discontent with Political Bobbleheads

U.S. Senate victory in Massachusetts proved one thing, “the People are not Stupid” and the message sent to political types inside the beltway is,...

FCC ownership road show set to kick off

Columbia SC is the destination as the FCC takes the Quadrennial Review on tour. The forum will operate as a double-header, assembling one panel to dig into local radio issues and another for television

Media General offering new bonds

Just hours after reporting its 2009 financial results, Media General announced plans to offer $350 million of new senior secured notes due 2017. The...

Broadcast organizations comment on NBP

In a joint filing, NAB and MSTV pledged "full and constructive participation" in proceedings associated with the National Broadband Plan. At the same time,...

Fed economist to keynote MFM confab

Dr. David Altig, Senior Vice President and Director of Research for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, will keynote Media Finance Focus 2010, the...

SUNY using RBR-TVBR for college courses

Hello, RBR and TVBR:We are using your combined websites as a reference to the ongoing state of the broadcast/cablecast/satcast/webcast media for my Broadcast Journalism,...

“Wrestlers 4 Haiti” Raise Over $6K for Relief Effort

Pro wrestlers (Tampa, FL) are mainly known for the weight they throw around in the ring. Turns out they have quite a bit that...

RBR-TVBR: Blazing the trail into the future

RBR-TVBR Members:We would like to share what we have been stating for the past two years: The value of engaging into today's Internet world. ...

Watchdog calls lack of minority licensees obscene

MMTC’s David Honig did not pull his punches – at the FCC panel on how its rules affect minority broadcast license ownership, he said of the lack of

Well-crafted FCC minority initiatives could survive courts

A panel comprised of academics testifying at an FCC investigation of ownership diversity believe that there are ways the Commission can craft rules to...

Apple unveils iPad

Apple showed off its much-anticipated tablet computer, a multimedia, Internet-enabled slate that could fuel the next leg of growth for the CE innovator. Dubbed the iPad, the tablet will be used to browse

Tribune managers will get their bonuses

A federal bankruptcy judge in Delaware Wednesday gave the go-ahead for Tribune Company to pay some $45.6 million in bonuses to roughly 720 management-level...

Two hot stories yield tight news director focus

The earthquake in Haiti and the surprising and dramatic senatorial race in Massachusetts made the job of a news director pretty easy during the...