WSJ offering premium news site – for a price
Don’t go rushing off to subscribe – The Wall Street Journal Professional Edition will first be available in November only to big corporate customers. Mere mortals will have to wait until January
Stress study could help guide sales
A Harris Interactive survey measuring citizen stress levels in 25 major American markets discovered that Chicago is the most stressed out and Miami the...
Q4 improvement seen at Journal Broadcast Group
Journal Communications didn’t provide any specific pacing numbers for Q4, but Journal Broadcast Group CEO Doug Kiel, who is also President of the parent company, told Wall Street analysts
One man’s view of Obama v. Fox
Obama administration is doing its best to discredit the veracity of Fox News so that the many flaws in their vetting process or their desire to have ACORN handle the Census, or various other discoveries Fox airs, lose their credibility.
Balloon boy fascinates the media
In the world of real news, the health care debate outdueled the economic crisis for the top spot in the latest Project for Excellence...
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...