Apple buys LaLa
Apple has agreed to buy a four-year-old streaming music provider, Lala, of Palo Alto, CA, reports The NY Times. Lala allows users to store...
Regent headed to Nasdaq delisting hearing
Regent Communications was first notified by Nasdaq in August 2008 that it faced possible delisting because its stock was not trading above the minimum...
Arbitron, comScore, Omniture to provide Olympics measurement
Arbitron announced that together with online marketing research and analytics companies comScore and Omniture, it is collaborating with NBC Sports
Comcast's Fancast Jumps to Top 3
comScore announced its October numbers, and Fancast has jumped to #3 in the TV Entertainment category with 11.3 million unique visitors (almost double the...
Thom Hartmann now airing on TV
Nationally syndicated Thom Hartmann is now being carried on Free Speech TV (www.freespeech.org). FSTV reaches 30 million US homes and airs full time on...
Analysts generally favorable to Comcast-GE deal
Wall Street gave a thumbs-up to Comcast for its deal to acquire a 51% stake in NBC Universal – not to mention its simultaneous...
Fitch Ratings says media credit outlook stable
Fitch Ratings, in its latest report (12/3) said its credit outlook for the media and entertainment industries is stable now that the worst of...
IAB launches "Privacy Matters" campaign
To educate consumers and provide them with resources to help manage their privacy online, the Interactive Advertising Bureau announced the launch of “Privacy Matters,”...
Reapportionment could fuel House battles
The census is coming up, and after the government gets a count of how many Americans are on hand in the year 2010, and...
iheartradio app now available for Android devices
Clear Channel Radio announced that the iheartradio mobile application will be available for Android devices, including one of Verizon Wireless’ newest smartphones, the DROID...
Pulitzer board expands online eligibility
A year ago the rules for the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism were expanded to allow entries from web-based publications as well as print newspapers....
BEYONCÉ tops 10 Grammy nominations, Taylor Swift earns 8
BEYONCÉ LEADS GRAMMY® NOMINATIONS WITH 10; TAYLOR SWIFT EARNS EIGHT; THE BLACK EYED PEAS, MAXWELL AND KANYE WEST EACH GARNER SIX; AND DAVID GUETTA,...
FCC figures in WH bowling incident
It will come as no shock to veterans of the Washington scene to learn that the White House is in cahoots with the FCC...
Bernie Munzelle dead at 80
Long-time Hitachi broadcast sales executive Bernie Munzelle died on Thanksgiving Day of heart failure. He had recently celebrated his 80th birthday.Munzelle was with Hitachi...
NBA Digital to launch NBA Team Game Time Mobile app
NBA Digital has unveiled the customized NBA Team Game Time application for all 30 NBA teams on Android Market, the App Store, and Blackberry...