Kennard assumes ambassadorship
Former FCC Chairman Bill Kennard was officially sworn in as the United States Representative to the European Union on Friday 12/11/09. Kennard, who served...
Journalists, Reps praise shield vote
On Thursday 12/10/09 the Senate Judiciary Committee referred the reporters shield to the full Senate. The Radio Television Digital News Association and the Society...
Another day, another confident confidence reading
Deloitte recently said it was seeing indications that consumers were starting to feel a little bit friskier, thanks to an improving outlook on the...
Nielsen Business Media sells 8 trade publications
Confirming rumors which began circulating a month ago, The Nielsen Company announced that it is selling eight trade publications to e5 Global Media LLC
Univision Interactive launches “Cocina”
Univision Interactive Media announced the launch of its new vertical site, “Cocina” (Cooking) on Univision.com: http://cocina.univision.com/. The new vertical site is Univision.com’s first-ever fully...
TrafficLand launches live video app on Bing Maps
TrafficLand, the largest authorized aggregator of live traffic video in the U.S., announced its selection by Microsoft as the provider of live traffic video...
Consumer spending picking up steam
A slowdown in the number of newly unemployed citizens coupled with across-the-board improvement in consumer fundamentals has Deloitte Research thinking positive thoughts about future...
Lachlan Murdoch cashes out of News Corp.
Many readers of this item now have a larger stake in News Corporation than does Lachlan Murdoch. The CEO’s eldest son cashed out another $28.1 million of company shares on Monday
Survey: Americans ‘Yelling’ Healthcare can wait, Fix Economy
Reports this morning, 12/9/09, saying Senate Democrats reaching broad agreement with health-care as Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) is again reported stating that there is compromise...
Afghanistan, economy dominate news coverage
All five media measured by the Project for Excellence in Journalism agreed that during the week of 11/30/09-12/6/09, the top two stories were Afghanistan...
NPR unveils new mobile app; android news app
NPR announced two major mobile launches -- a redesigned and expanded mobile NPR.org for users of web-enabled devices, and an NPR News app for...
Economy a factor in 2010 political spend
Republicans have a positive view of the 2010 midterms and are ready to take the offensive. And if the economy stays sour it will...
Sum Value of Zero
I’ve been in the business of broadcast, advertising and marketing for 48 years. Approximately 17 of those years was spent in broadcasting so you can imagine my surprise while having lunch
GameSpot partners with Raptr
GameSpot (www.gamespot.com/) announced a partnership with Raptr (http://raptr.com), a free service that makes it easier to play games with your friends. Under the partnership,...
FCC moves ahead on new ownership form
The new biennial report, Form 323, is finally going to be available Wednesday 12/9/09, and the FCC expects them to be filled out – but it is cutting