Trio to be honored by RTNDF
The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation will honor three news leaders for their commitment to the First Amendment and excellence in journalism at...
Analyst turns bullish on CBS
Wells Fargo Securities analyst Marci Ryvicker has upgraded CBS Corporation to “outperform” and said it is a stock that clients should want to own the stock before the company reports its Q3 numbers
Health care dominates coverage
The health care issue figured to be the #1 news topic for the week before Joe Wilson's joint session outburst. Since bad behavior makes...
Beck antagonist quantifies its campaign
ColorOfChange, the organization which kicked off the advertising boycott of Glenn Beck’s Fox News Channel program, says it has decreased advertising
Honesty is the Best Policy
I am sure everyone has heard this statement delivered by a parent, school teacher or even a minister. It is a simplistic statement that is difficult to adhere too 100% of the time because we all
Triple Crown Media files Chapter 11
Triple Crown Media, the local newspaper group spun off from Gray Television in 2005, is the latest publisher to enter federal bankruptcy court for reorganization. Triple Crown, which is headed as well by
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