Retail sales up .3% in August
Retail sales posted a decent gain in August, helped by the biggest jump in auto sales in more than a year. The Commerce Department...
Talkers, newsers agree on top three stories
The agreed on four out of the top five, as well, but they did not agree on what was the top story, according to...
What if they held a debate and nobody came?
Are we getting to the point where there will be a need for The Debate Channel? It seems the sun never sets on a...
Cablevision buyout vote next month
Cablevision has set a shareholder vote for October 24th on the pending offer from the Dolan family to buy out all other shareholders for...
Time for kiddy companies to use adult formats
Mattel and Burger King are no strangers to the preteen market and no doubt have a great deal of experience marketing their wares to...
Still money to be made on Cumulus stock
Depending on when the buyout deal goes to closing, Bear Stearns analyst Victor Miller is telling clients that they can make an annualized return...
Reason that radio and other media is in decline
The real reason that radio and other media is in decline is that each medium is too focused on selling its own attributes, and...
US ad spend dropped 0.3% in first half of 2007
Total ad expenditures in the first half of 2007 slipped by 0.3% to 72.59 billion versus the same period in 2006, according to TNS...
News smorgasbord
There was a little bit of something for everyone during the week of 9/2/07-9/7/07, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism's latest coverage...
DMA's latest catalog marketing study
The Direct Marketing Association's Multichannel Marketing in the Catalog Industry report reveals nearly 70% of respondents reported increased multichannel sales over the prior year,...
Sillerman has another hit on his hands
Robert F.X. Sillerman has been out of the radio business for some time now, but he continues to have success in other areas. Ticket...
Fidelity owns big chunk of Sinclair
Mutual fund giant Fidelity (FMR Corp.) has filed an update with the SEC on its holdings in Sinclair Broadcast Group. In all, FMR holds...
Three head to NPR
Three new college grads are going to be deeply immersed in radio news reporting for the next year as the 2007-2008 Joan B. Kroc...
Another Republican senator exits
Chuck Hagel (R-NE) is now the third Republican senator planning to exit at the end of this term, leaving an open seat in a...
And staffers worried about Rupert?
An SEC filing for the pending 5.6 billion purchase of Dow Jones & Co. by News Corporation confirmed what we had all guessed -...