Oily to bed, oily to rise
The price of a barrel of crude has a lot more to do with the mood on Wall Street than anything broadcasters can come...
Three pennies for your thoughts
Rather, Gray Television is prepared to offer three cents for each share of Common and Class A stock you own, if you owned it...
Campaigns ratify debate schedule, report funding
The campaigns of John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL) have agreed to the debate schedule put forth by the Commission on Presidential Debates....
Great results for GoodRadio.TV
Dean Goodman’s GoodRadio.TV, which specialized in small market radio clusters in the Midwest, says his group is having a great year, despite what may...
College presidents pushing lower drinking age
You can hardly find a more distinguished and respectable demographic than college and university presidents. Did you know that they are organizing to push...
Ride the bucking bronco
Communications companies did not drive Wall Street yesterday – according to the Associated Press, real estate and oil had that honor/dishonor on a topsy...
Spectrum sprinkling
Outside of Dallas, a trio of communities have banded together to upgrade communications for their fire and police departments. The first responders of Cedar...
Carlin put in perspective
The passing of George Carlin is old news, but his place in the history of broadcasting, and in the annals of American jurisprudence, will...
Political bandaid not enough for MG
While ailing newspaper classifieds are the major thorn in the side of multimedia Media General, its television division had its own problems in July. Local was down, and national was down more
Newspapers slipping as news source
Online news sources and continued growth by cable outlets are seemingly conspiring to take a bite out of newspaper uses - just over a...
Campaign knocked off the top slot
We wouldn't have believed it if we hadn't seen it with our own eyes. Sure it's the doldrums before the national conventions. We're still...
Surge in youth vote could benefit broadcasters
After taking several presidential elections off, proportionally speaking, voters under the age of 30 injected themselves into the electoral process in a big way...
Not so equal suffering at Journal
Radio and television revenues for July 2008 were both off about 3% compared to the same month in 2007 – the percentages for the two sectors were within a tenth of a percent of one another
Follow the money
John McCain (R-AZ) had a good July when it comes to fund-raising, but Barack Obama (D-IL) fared almost twice as well, according to reports....
Pandora losing hope?
Internet music source Pandora is highly successful. It claims 1M listeners and is said to be adding 40K new listeners daily via its tie to Apple’s iPhone. Even more importantly, it has managed to monetize