Clear Channel Outdoor offering boosted to $2.5 billion
Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO) isn’t just boosting its proposed $750 million bond offering a little bit. Moody’s Investors Service has lowered its rating on...
Clear Channel unit may up bond offering
Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO) says in an SEC filing that it may increase its proposed $750 million offering of senior notes. All of the...
NBA Digital starts new season with television, online, mobile
With an increase in TV distribution, a redesigned website with a commitment to video and a strong mobile presence across multiple carriers, NBA Digital...
News media mostly agrees – it’s the economy
The week of 12/7-13 was one in which the five media tracked by the Project for Excellence in Journalism were in general accord as...
YouTube reveals its most watched videos of 2009
You’ve no doubt guessed that the debut of Susan Boyle on “Britain’s Got Talent” was the video viewed the most times on YouTube in...
Roy E. Disney dead at 79
Former Walt Disney Company Vice Chairman Roy E. Disney has died. A family spokesman said he had been battling stomach cancer. The nephew of...
Another Democratic Rep bowing out
What churn there will be in the upcoming elections for the House of Representatives continues to break for the Republican Party, as the fourth...
Cox consolidating radio stations, WHIO-TV, paper in Dayton
Equipment vendors take note: WHIO.com reports Cox Media Group plans to move its radio and television stations currently located in Kettering, OH into the...
NAB’s Smith looks at radio & TV in 2010
NAB President/CEO Gordon Smith said that top issue for television in the upcoming year was spectrum reallocation – specifically, in making sure that
Salem completes bond buyback
Salem Communications announced the expiration of the cash tender offer for its 7.75% senior subordinated notes due 2010. The tender was quite successful, since...
Editor & Publisher may not be dead yet
Citing “overwhelming reader and advertiser demand,” Editor & Publisher posted a notice on its website that the 125-year-old trade publication will put out one...
Cox takes Valpak off the auction block
Cox Enterprises announced that it is no longer exploring a sale of Valpak, based in Largo, FL. Cox had included Valpak among assets it...
Nominees for WGA radio and TV awards
The Writers Guild of America, West and the Writers Guild of America, East have announced nominations for the WGA awards for outstanding achievement in...
Hawaii House seat opening up
Longtime Hawaii US Representative Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) is running for governor, and has decided to abandon his seat early, setting off a two-party scramble...
SBS faces Nasdaq delisting
The good folks at Nasdaq expect all of their listed stocks to maintain a minimum price of $1.00, and Spanish Broadcasting System has failed...