COPPA plea: Kids, internet, $250K settlement
Iconix Brand Group, which sells clothing to children, ran afoul of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, and the agency's own COPPA Rule, and...
ESPN logs best month ever
September was a big month for ESPN with milestones across multiple platforms. In the month that ESPN turned 30, sports fans tuned in, logged...
Q3 down, but Journal sees signs of hope
Revenues fell 22.9% to $105.1 million in Q3 at Journal Communications, with similar declines for broadcasting and publishing. But company officials reported that there...
Seth Godin on new ways to market
The Internet and other new ways to communicate have opened up new ways to reach potential customers. And while some may view him as the enemy of what he calls the “TV-industrial complex,”
Radio One back in Nasdaq’s good graces
The stock price for Radio One’s widely traded Class D shares has closed back above a buck for some time of late. As a...
Univision Interactive launches new community toolbar
Conduit and Univision Interactive Media announced the launch of the Univision.com Barra (Univision Toolbar), powered by Conduit. The application gives users a simple, personalized...
Murdoch (again) claims people will pay for web news
Rupert Murdoch told News Corporation shareholders at their annual meeting Friday that the business models for both broadcasting and the newspaper
MOG says digital music service coming
MOG, mog.com, a music blogging destination, announced it would launch “MOG All Access,” a new digital music service for North America, by Thanksgiving. MOG...
Changing landscape in Internet TV, online video delivery
Ankeena Networks, provider of new media infrastructure solutions, released a recently published whitepaper that discusses the radical growth and changing
Sinclair sells expanded bond offering
Wall Street proved very receptive to the debt securities offering that Sinclair Broadcast Group announced last Tuesday. The offering of $430 million in senior...
IAB objects to endorser rules
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) does not like the new guidelines the FTC put out regarding endorsements and testimonials, particularly as they relate to...
CNN retracts Limbaugh quote
Amid the firestorm of criticism unleashed when Rush Limbaugh revealed that he was part of a group seeking to buy the NFL St. Louis...
Retail Forecast – We’re talking tech, TV, and fashion
WHAT’S HOT - Google (with 74.5% rating it “hot”) bests Bing (39.5%) in the battle of search engines. And, while FlashForward is highly rated among consumers overall, Community has found
White House pushback policy in force
The Obama administration has clearly signaled that it is willing to treat the media as an adversary and respond in kind. Just ask Fox...
TDGA launches national traffic software survey
The changing role of Traffic personnel and the high-tech software revenue management systems they use goes under the microscope again this year with TDGA's...