Gannett closing some suburban Detroit newspapers
The Observer & Eccentric Newspapers announced Monday it will cease publication of five editions as of the end of May and merge some others. The cost-cutting moves will eliminate about
Harry Kalas dead at 73
The long-time voice of the Philadelphia Phillies on radio and TV collapsed in the broadcast booth in Washington, DC Monday as he prepared to...
Feds probing Tribune ESOP
Tribune Company disclosed in a bankruptcy court filing that the US Department of Labor (DOL) is investigating the company’s employee stock ownership plan. The ESOP which owns Tribune has allowed the
Bankruptcy groundwork being laid for GM
The NY times reports The Treasury Department is directing General Motors to lay the groundwork for a bankruptcy filing by a June 1 deadline,...
Glenn Beck announces comedy tour
Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel's latest sensation, is taking a comedy show on the road for six live performances over six days during the...
Fisher resists shareholder micromanagement
The board of directors has recommended that shareholders vote down a proposal by the largest shareholder of Fisher Communications
Renewed efforts to free American journalist
Roxana Saberi, who reported for NPR, Fox News, the BBC and other outlets, remains in an Iranian prison, now charged as a spy. US...
Connecticut AG questions Sam Zell
Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General of Connecticut, claims Tribune Company’s plan to merge the newsrooms of WTIC-TV, WTXX-TV and The Hartford Courant violates the FCC’s...
Economic clouds starting to lift?
Hey, we didn’t say it. It was Barack Obama who noticed “glimmers of hope” that economic conditions would eventually rebound, including a sterling quarterly report from Wells Fargo, action on the mortgage
The Digital Transition, Part 2
Full power stations will soon be ending a turbulent journey -- their transition to digital operations. But there is a still often unrecognized group
Low power org pushes back on minority report
While the Community Broadcasters Association is all in favor of improving the broadcasting lot of women and minorities, when it looks at the FCC’s...
LA Times and NBC blur editorial/advertising line
Front page ads are the new growth area for daily newspapers and yesterday’s Los Angeles Times had an ad for the debut of “Southland” on NBC across the bottom. Right next to it was a story
Changing of the guard at ASCAP
After 15 years at the helm, Marilyn Bergman is stepping down as President and Chairman of the Board at the American Society of Composers,...
2009 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
WTOP-FM Washington, DC, with 11 awards, and KARE-TV Minneapolis-St. Paul and WBUR-FM Boston, with 10 each, claimed the most awards as the Radio-Television News...
Regulating PPM
Couldn't disagree with you more, on the comment that the FCC has no oversight over PPM. To reiterate, PPM is a mysterious box that is injected onto the audio lines of a broadcaster.