Rebound fails to float all boats
Wall Street traders shopped for bargains and turned the total market arrow back in the up direction in what was called a tumultuous day...
More PAC attacks
Third party political action committees are stepping up their on-air presence in the presidential and in select congressional campaigns. In many if not most...
Obama, McCain topped $110M in August
Barack Obama blew away his own personal monthly fund-raising record of $55M, collecting $66M during the month of August, and John McCain set a...
S-bomb slips through on Today
Matt Lauer of NBC’s Today Show was interviewing Norwegian base-jumper Hans Lange, who was describing a jump gone bad that could easily have had...
Lehman bankruptcy sinks stocks
Nearly all radio and TV stocks dropped Monday as Wall Street reeled from Lehman Brothers filing Chapter 11. The ranks of major investment banks was also reduced by Merrill Lynch
The Network Exception and Political Rates
We’re into the home stretch of the 2008 political season and the presidential election is upon us. Radio is receiving more attention than
Citadel gets NYSE listing notice
The last day that Citadel Broadcasting’s stock closed above a buck was August 11th – and the company has now received a notice from...
Radio & TV icon George Putnam is dead
The late Ted Knight said his “Ted Baxter” character on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” was modeled after George Putnam, who anchored top-rated newscasts...
Houston broadcasters in full-bore public service mode
Delivering news on the basic essentials of life – what grocery stores had reopened, what hospitals were ready to receive patients and where gasoline could be purchased
Cheaper than advertising
Perhaps you are aware of the recent skull-and-dagger derring-do revolving around the once in a lifetime top secret transporation and holding operation for the...
Automakers touching up Congress for a loan
The troubled automobile industry has been making trouble for dozens of other industries, and broadcasters are certainly charter members of that secondary group. So...
Murdoch looking to exit Russia?
In his last conference call News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch said “The more I read about investments in Russia, the less I like the...
Coleman, Franken set to lock horns
One of the candidates surviving the Minnesota primaries this week has experience in both television and radio. Al Franken (D-MN) is challenging incumbent Norm...
Tribune and Google blaming each other
Tribune Company says it was a “Googlebot” searching for news postings that was to blame for a six-year-old story about UAL filing bankruptcy being
FOIA-gone conclusion?
Government entities are figuring out that they can forestall the press by stonewalling on releasing information, counting on dwindling media income and profit margins to keep efforts to