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It seems you can’t toss a brick these days without hitting a negative economic poll of one kind or another. The Conference Board came...
Rocky bids due today
The future existence of the Rocky Mountain News is in the balance, with bids due tomorrow for anyone interested in buying the Denver newspaper...
Local secret sauce plus
Responding to an RBR observation. Fred Jacobs says that local is important, but it will take more than just that to keep radio going ahead into the new millennium
2008 magazine advertising reflects economy
Total magazine rate-card-reported ad revenue for FY 2008 closed at $23,652,018,533, posting a 7.8% decline against the previous year, according to Publishers Information Bureau...
Charter misses interest payments
Payments of $73.7 million were due yesterday on bonds issued by two subsidiaries of cable MSO Charter Communications, but the payments were not made. Charter, controlled by Paul Allen
Martin bows out
Chairman Kevin Martin brought actual news to the unusually less-than-newsworthy FCC January Open Meeting, announcing that Barack Obama’s first day on the job will be his last. Martin had been hinting
LIN gets NYSE notice
The New York Stock Exchange sent LIN TV a non-compliance notice because the market capitalization of LIN’s public stock had fallen below the NYSE...
Judge supports WV’s lottery balancing act
West Virginia makes money off legalized gambling in the state, some of which is done at lottery parlors. However, it also restricts their advertising...
Sirius XM swaps more stock for debt
With the due date approaching next month for its 2.5% convertible notes, Sirius XM has swapped another 100,000,000 shares of stock (yes, 100 million)...
Different news media, different emphasis
In the absence of an election, differences in opinion among news decision makers are once again emerging on a regular basis. All five media...
DTV coupon blues
A private citizen has had two unsatisfactory NTIA converter box coupon transactions, but this citizen is different than most. He has a broadcast resume stretching from 1980 through 2006
Burying the hatchet in Dallas-Ft. Worth
Once fierce competitors, Belo’s Dallas Morning News and McClatchey’s Fort Worth Star-Telegram have cut a deal to share sports coverage. The content-sharing arrangement is...
WFAA-TV Dallas tops duPont-Columbia awards
The Belo flagship station is the first local station to ever win the highest award, the Golden Baton. 12 other awards went to programs...
AmericanAirlines Arena to get huge transparent digital LED screen spectacular
A2aMEDIA and the HEAT Group announced plans to install the largest digital LED Spectacular in North America on the AmericanAirlines Arena, home of the...
Another daily newspaper up for sale
Seattle could become the next major US city to have only one daily newspaper. Hearst Corporation announced on Friday that it has put the...