Part 2: Can HD Radio Be Saved?
Our anonymous correspondent is back with some suggestions on how to salvage HD Radio. We’ll have more on HD Radio from a proponent on Wednesday.
Talkers: Campaign good, economy bad
The Project for Excellence in Journalism has finally put out another Talkers index, giving us a chance to compare the interests of gabmeisters as...
GE’s Q1 well below expectations
NBC Universal was fine for Q1, with profits up 3%, but most of the rest of General Electric saw double digit declines and the...
Feedback on Friday’s Blog Log
Of course the secret writer is.....right! HD radio was a loser from the beginning. As someone who has owned and operated dozens of AM...
Parts of Rather lawsuit dismissed
A judge in New York yesterday allowed Dan Rather to go forward with his 70 million bucks lawsuit against CBS and Viacom. However, the...
Why HD Radio may never make it
A loyal reader of RBR/TVBR has been contemplating the hurdles facing HD Radio and submitted this analysis to Publisher Jim Carnegie. For business reasons,...
The PPM dialog continues
Randy Kabrich responds to Mike Cavanaugh.No one is saying going back to diary.The points are:1) PPM is the future - but as radio pays...
Commissioners hijacked to Capitol Hill
What would an FCC Breakfast at the NAB Convention be without a Commissioner or two? Just eggs. So, NAB has been reshuffling since all...
PTC blasts CW's America's Next Top Model
Is obscured nudity a basis for a finding of broadcast indecency? The FCC has been sitting on two such cases dating back to 2003....
Election coverage plateaus
The primaries remain in the midst of a lull, with a big one in Pennsylvania still a few weeks off, and while the lull was not nearly enough to flush election coverage off the top of the media coverage chart
Keep the pressure on
I like the pressure some industry leaders are putting on Arbitron. They continue to drag their feet and their products in relation to the...
Newspaper group for sale, but who’s buying?
Journal Register Company has put itself up for sale and retained Lazard Freres & Co. to seek a buyer or buyers for its 22...
A cautious welcome to Las Vegas
As good a piece of business as the NAB convention may be for Las Vegas, there are some serious problems within the industry which need to be dealt with...
California considering download tax
It seems that for the time being, the US has settled on the idea that a typical tune download for an MP3 or similar device costs 0.99. But that could change in California if a Democrat gets his way.
A critical view
After reading Arbitron's explanation of its second straight week of in-tab declines in Philadelphia, consultant Randy Kabrich questions whether the trade-off makes sense as...