Don’t shield reporter’s shield from veto pen
Last week we said we’d be happy to wait until after the election to enact a federal reporter’s shield -- NYT goes to bat for federal shield
Obama blasts past WSJ estimate
The campaign of Barack Obama (D-IL) openly ridiculed a recent Wall Street Journal article saying that it figured to bring in just over $30M...
The FCC agenda notable for what’s not there
The proposed agenda for the August Open Meeting at the FCC, scheduled at the get-out-of-town-friendly date of 8/1/08, will include a look at how...
Ad recession brings bitter enemies together
It has gotten to be so hard to make a buck in the newspaper business that even Rupert Murdoch and Mort Zuckerman are on...
More cash for Gray
Gray Television announced that it had sold another $25 million liquidation value of its Series D Perpetual Preferred Stock. The company said the sale...
Les Crane dead at 74
The Los Angeles Times reports the death of Les Crane, the successful KGO-AM San Francisco talk host who was tapped by ABC Television in...
XM/Sirius continues to draw serious response
Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) wants HD capability incorporated into satellite receivers and the current proposed price cap term doubled. And NPR wants HD incorporated and a much larger set-aside for minority/NCE channels
Legal eagle view on product placement
Commercial zapping viewing practices are putting a premium on product placement advertising schemes, and the FCC is looking into issues concerning
Journalists stick to same old same old
The 2008 campaign, the economy, the Middle East and the price of petroleum products continued to dominate media coverage during the week of 7/7/08-7/13/08,...
Scripps reverse split takes effect
Effective today, E.W. Scripps Company shareholders will have one-third as many shares as they had yesterday, but they should be worth three times as...
Legal eagle blowback
Peter Gutmann of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC weighed in the other day on the regulatory ins and outs of FCC broadcast phone...
House Democrats reveal battle plans
There will be no need to speculate on where the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee thinks some major House battleground contests will be waged. The...
Roger Ailes is now a newspaper man
He isn’t quitting his day job as President of Fox News Channel and Chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group, but Roger Ailes and...
Dismal days for all media
Broadcasters may be primarily focused on the advertising woes they face every day. But they are not alone. The media analyst team at Wachovia Capital Markets is out with an equity research
XM/Sirius slithers along
A number of media outlets are reporting that as expected, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has opted to go along with FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and approve the merger