“Nashville Star” sets open casting call
If your Country radio station or NBC television station is in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Charlotte, Kansas City, Tallahassee, Denver, New Orleans or Portland, you may...
Liu bags agreement with NBC
Niche broadcaster Arthur Liu and his MultiCultural Radio Broadcasting have parlayed their expertise in Asian languages into a deal with NBC for coverage of...
McCain widely seen as victor as Romney exits
Mitt Romney (R-MA) has ended his quest for the White House, leaving the Republican field to recently-crowned front runner John McCain (R-AZ), Mike Huckabee...
Happy birthday mom
Rupert Murdoch is due back in Melbourne, Australia today for a special celebration. It’s his mother’s birthday. Dame Elisabeth Murdoch is 99 today. By...
AWRT to honor Pearl
American Women in Radio & Television (AWRT) is announced that journalist and author Mariane Pearl is the recipient of the 2008 AWRT International Outreach...
Burying the lead
You have to go down to the 11th paragraph of a news release from the Washington Post Company to learn that the company will...
Ad requirements for dietary supplement marketers
Great American Products Inc., Physician's Choice and Stephen Karian have had their wrists slapped a little harder by the FTC after being charged for...
Time Warner may split off AOL access business, reduce cable stake
In his first quarterly conference call since becoming CEO of Time Warner, Jeff Bewkes indicated that he is looking to make some changes. He...
Split Belo assigned to two indices
Standard & Poor’s announced changes to two of its market indices to deal with the split of Belo Corporation into two separate publicly traded...
More on overnight staffing
Jon Hosford may be right about how station owners would deal with a federal mandate for 24/7 studio operation (2/1/08 RBR #22). But his...
Primaries: What's left
With four Republican candidates still standing, despite the establishment of strong front runner status by John McCain (R-AZ), and with much heavy lifting ahead...
Defending set-top-box data
I disagree with your assessment that the DirecTV sample would not be a representative one and that it could potentially become a viable alternative...
Disney earnings down, but beats the Street
Like other big media company CEOs, Disney’s Bob Iger told analysts in his quarterly conference call that the WGA strike has had no significant...
Sun-Times Media on the auction block
Sun-Times Media Group, the company anchored by the Chicago Sun-Times, has appointed a team of three directors to consider “strategic alternatives” for the company...
One down; Can broadcast stocks endure 11 more months?
As bad as 2007 was for most broadcasting stocks, the first month of 2008 did not bring any improvement. Most radio stocks were down...