Re-engineering on tap for Westwood One
That’s how CEO Tom Beusse refers to changes coming in Q3 to streamline the company and deal with the soft business environment. The re-engineering...
Outlook cloudy for SBS
Citing limited visibility from the economic environment and industry-wide ad decline, Spanish Broadcasting System has suspended offering quarterly guidance to Wall Street. Despite the...
Subscriber gains grow revenues for DirecTV
DirecTV added 129,000 US subscribers and 184,000 in Latin America in Q2, for a total of 313,000, somewhat more than analysts had expected. US...
Wanna get in the news? Then buy an ad
A new survey is reporting that about 19% of organizations that engage in marketing have come to on sort of arrangement or another with...
PAC attack: House Dems engage in rapid response policy
Conservative political group Freedom’s Watch is using its campaign warchest to go after select Democratic House candidates. The Democrats aren’t
DG FastChannel Q2 revenues up 59%
DG FastChannel reported Q2 revenue of $34.5 million compared to $21.7 million in the same period of 2007. Q2 revenue from the delivery of...
Good things come in small radio markets
The largest markets in the Regent Communications portfolio are Buffalo NY and Albany-Schenectady-Troy NY. Regent’s focus on local, and cushion from the deleterious effects...
Campaign pullback makes room for terrible twos
The media gave Obama and McCain a little room during the week of 7/28/08-8/3/08, according to the latest temperature-taking from the Project for Excellence...
Tough quarter for Entravision
Net revenues were down 5% to $62.9 million in Q2 for Spanish specialist Entravision, with EBITDA off 14% to $22.4 million. The decline was across both radio and television
Paris Hilton launches first campaign ad
After John McCain used a shot of Paris Hilton in a campaign ad ribbing Barack Obama for being a celebrity, Hilton has fired back...
Watchdogs fire salvos over indecency
Predictably, the Parents Television Council is not amused by the broadcast challenges to the FCC’s right to enforce indecency regulations. It proves once again,...
A tax-saving proposition
Brett Miller of MCH Enterprises has some thoughts on the both the history and future of tax certificates, which he shared with us after
Mixed results at Radio One, guidance murky
Urban specialist Radio One posted a 1% gain in net revenue to $83.4M during the second quarter of 2008, but had to use red...
Saga free cash flow up, other numbers down
It’s always nice to have at least one pleasant number to point to, and for Saga Communications in Q2 2008, it was free cash...
Debate schedule released
PBS will handle one of three presidential debates and the only VP face-off, with one presidential confrontation each for NBC and CBS, according to...