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...
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...