Unions and ad industry agree on new contract
SAG and AFTRA announced a tentative agreement with the 4As and ANA on a new contract for television and radio commercials. The old contract...
YouTube and Onion among Peabody winners
New media ventures have certainly made it to the big time. In addition to venerable names like NBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, PBS, NPR and...
More media bankruptcies
Now both daily newspapers in Chicago are in Chapter 11 reorganization. Sun-Times Media Group, whose flagship is the Chicago Sun-Times, sought bankruptcy court protection...
FCC: Don’t deep six Channel 6 in planning
Television operators are only too well aware of the inherent flaws in the spectrum hole used for Channel 6, which occupies 82-88 MHz, right next to the low end of the FM reserved band
Credit where credit is due?
Chris Pacheco, Principal Partner, Fat Dawgs Broadcasting/Fresno, took issue with some of the facts and figures from Peak Broadcasting/Fresno in our KMJ stories:
Q4 off slightly for Liberman
LBI Media, the parent company of Liberman Broadcasting, reports that Q4 revenues declined 4.5% to $26.4 million. Radio was up 1% to $15.7 million,...
Remember, the Web is forever
Not everything that goes on the Internet stays forever, but you can bet that if something goes on the Web that you don’t want...
Cialis, Cymbalta Lead 2008’s Most Recalled Drug Ads
Nielsen reports Eli Lilly produced three of the top four most-recalled prescription drug and vaccine ads on TV last year, according to new research...
Declare war on many of those clowns
Last year at this time, I wrote a fairly stern welcome to broadcasters who were attending the National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas. The piece appeared both in my weekly newspaper, the Penny Press and
How will changes at GM, Chrysler affect ad spend?; Recommendations
With all of the hard choices and forced decision-making going on in Detroit from the Obama Administration’s auto panel, we asked a few experts...
Fox News launches its own blogosphere
Take that Arianna Huffington, Fox News Channel has launched a competitor to the left-leaning HuffPost with a lean in the other direction. Fox Nation...
Nexstar completes note swap
The vote was nearly unanimous as Nexstar asked its senior subordinated note holders to exchange their old notes for new ones that pay in-kind,...
Univision touts ratings growth as revenues slip
Q4 revenues declined 7.8% at Univision, with radio down more than television. Even the Interactive Media division was down. Despite the tough ad sales
Lincoln National shares plunge
The parent company of radio owner Lincoln Financial Media took a drubbing on Wall Street, with its shares losing more than a third of...
Turning down the consumer gloom?
Rasmussen Reports tracks consumer confidence on both a daily and monthly basis. The last full month available is February, when the measure was 57.6,...