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
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...