Will Matthews have to give up his day job?
The rumors swirling around MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and his possible run for the US Senate seat in Pennsylvania are strong enough that his immediate...
Belo details political coverage
Television group Belo took a multipronged approach to following the 2008 US election season, providing extensive news coverage, hosting debates and providing free air...
Scripps wants to sell Rocky Mountain News
Saying its share of operating income from a Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) in Denver is not enough to cover editorial costs, E.W. Scripps put the Rocky Mountain News up
Forget the help wanted category
How about just wanted? The police department of Chesapeake VA, part of the Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News market, has taken out an ad in the...
Moody’s still negative after Citadel amends loan
Citadel Broadcasting completed an amendment and waiver to its bank credit agreement, giving the company some wiggle-room on its leverage
Landmark ends sale efforts
Landmark Communications sold The Weather Channel and weather.com to a joint venture of NBC Universal and some private equity firms for $3.5 billion, but one TV station sale was
Hispanic groups ask for focus on ownership diversity
An organization of Hispanic organizations is asking President-elect Barack Obama to take steps to increase the number of minority owners among the
Measuring Audience Response is What Matters
Nielsen sure stirred up a hornet's nest by entering the radio ratings game. Imagine the activity now that radio has another diary system of measuring its audience to present to media buyers
NYSE also sends a notice to Entercom
Entercom’s stock price has moved back up above a buck, but it still got a notice from the NYSE because its stock price had...
Cox opens an umbrella
A new corporate structure effective with the New Year will put Cox Radio, Cox Television and Cox Newspapers all under the umbrella of Cox Media Group
Citadel gets NYSE notice
Citadel Broadcasting says it has been notified that it has fallen below the minimum market capitalization requirement of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)...
Study of studies blames the media
It will come as no surprise that three out of four studies link increased media use among children with a wide variety of negative...
Another broadcasting analyst on the beach
BMO Capital Markets is the latest Wall Street firm to decide it can do without an analyst specializing in publicly traded radio and TV...
Second round of bids for the Chicago Cubs
Even billionaires who have seen their net worth battered by the Wall Street downturn still salivate at the possibility of owning a Major League...
Time Warner wants reverse stock split
Shareholders of Time Warner are being asked to approve a reverse stock split in advance of the early 2009 spin-off of Time Warner Cable...