Cox Radio is no longer a public company
The buyout at $4.80 per share has been completed by Cox Enterprises, which now owns 100% of Cox Radio. The stock closed forever Friday...
Spector gets 19 years to life
A judge on Friday sentenced Phil Spector to 19 years to life in prison for the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson. Spector’s attorney...
Performers Royalties Bill Comments
Nashville’s and the U.S.’s music writers and performers may be really unhappy when they learn what the proposed Performers Royalty Bill really does if...
CBS lays in the cash
CBS Corporation has now completed a cool $1 billion in new bond sales, mostly to pay off older bonds that are coming due. The latest offering was for $250 million. The latest sale was an add-on to
Divorce at last for Time Warner and AOL
The corporate marriage made in hell is finally coming to an end. Directors of Time Warner have voted to spin off AOL as a separate, standalone public
Sirius XM shareholders give Mel the ok
The votes have been tallied from the annual shareholders meeting of Sirius XM. The owners of the company gave CEO Mel Karmazin everything he asked for to complete the company’s financial
NABEF to honor “Extreme Makeover”
ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” has been selected as this year’s winner of the NAB Education Foundation’s Leadership Award. The award for public service...
Is Twitter right for my brand?
Brands are trying to find the right mix of traditional and new ways to reach their customers – and with smaller budgets than they...
Olbermann fires back at Limbaugh
We are aware that one of the popular sporting events for a certain class of broadcast pundit is an internecine war of words with others of their own kind. These things can go on forever
Television, Bailouts, Greed and Corruption. What gives? What's next?
My Name is Steven Brant. I am a professional broadcast engineer and very proud of it and my accomplishments. I have over 30 years of engineering in broadcasting
AFTRA and SAG ratify commercial contract
Word came down late Thursday that members of SAG and AFTRA had ratified the new commercial contract with the 4As and ANA tentatively agreed...
The Radio Pendulum
Radio began in the early 1920’s as an experimental medium – almost a toy! By the late 20’s and early 1930’s it had become a major source of news, info and entertainment for the American family
ATMs: New competitor in the local space?
There are hundreds of thousands of automated teller machines in the United States, and for the most part, their owners and operators have been content to slap their company name on them
News business experiencing normalcy trend
After experiencing long periods of time where one story is sucking all the oxygen out of the newshole week after week, as the election...
Reese to chair NAB search
Bonneville International Corp. President and CEO Bruce Reese will chair the search committee to find a successor to NAB President and CEO David Rehr.Rehr’s...