In the media we mistrust
Only 29% of Americans believe that the media gets its facts straight when reporting the news, and many believe politics colors the final product,...
Congress encouraged to collect billions in new gambling ad campaign
The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative launched a new online advertising campaign yesterday in support of the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection and...
The Health Care Radio Issue
Is digital audio on radio the same placebo proponents of National Health Care want us to swallow? Both issues have emotional appeal with key phrases and buzz words
Moonves says CBS will stay in radio; not in acquisition mode
“There is still value in radio,” CBS Corporation CEO Les Moonves told a Bank of America-Merrill Lynch investor conference. And while he likes the...
Time to pick the stock winners
Barclays Capital analyst Anthony DiClemente believes that a cyclical recovery for US advertising is going to more than offset structural concerns about media companies in 2010 and 1011. But not all media stocks
KSL-AM, FM & TV going its own way
Deseret Management Corp. (DMC), the company through which the Mormon Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) owns its media properties, is...
Media comes together to fight obesity
Broadcasters are joining with the Ad Council, Warner Brothers Pictures and the Department of Health and Human Services in an extension of the campaign...
Chamber puts another issue in play
The US Chamber of Commerce does not want the government to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency or anything like it, and is prepared to spend some money to build opposition to
Deconsolidation Right Around the Corner – Don't Believe It!
Coming into 2009, a great many media pros including brokers, attorneys and many of us who cashed out of radio a decade or more ago predicted a tsunami of bankruptcies due to the massive hangover of LBO debt
September opens with scattered coverage
Health care was the #1 story during the week of 8/31/09-9/6/09 because radio and CATV said it was, according to the Project for Excellence...
NY Times reporter freed in Afghanistan
The New York Times and other news outlets in the know had kept quiet about the capture of Stephen Farrell four days earlier by...
FTC on CVS: Guilt by association
The FTC had already acted on what it said were unproven claims by Airborne Health Inc. about the effectiveness of one of its products....
Value radio before taxing it
A programmer in Cleveland is more than a little bit annoyed that supporters of the Performance Rights Act aren’t making the slightest attempt to figure out what the value of free radio
Auto ought to pick up
Cash for Clunkers did wonders for many automakers, but of the three big US companies, only Ford was able to effectively cash in. And it was very effective, enjoying a 17% gain in sales over August 2008
Watchdog calls for more public funding
Free Press’s Craig Aaron thinks public broadcasting gets short shrift in the US, and is calling on a Democratic White House and Congress to...