Clinton win good for business
With key victories in Texas and Ohio, Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has justified staying in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination with Barack Obama...
Split cleared by IRS
The E. W. Scripps Company says it has received a private letter ruling from the Internal Revenue Service confirming the tax-free status of the...
Salem ahead of expectations, but tough sledding ahead
Salem Communications reported Q4 revenues of 59.1 million, down only 0.2% from a year ago and better than the 58 million projected by the...
Disagreeing with Bob Neil
Bob Neil is a blowhard. He’s been one for decades. He’s the CEO equivalent of Rush Limbaugh. He loves to hear himself speak and...
Journalists expand their attention span
It was ever so slight a change, but for the first time in quite awhile, it took a 2% share of available news time...
Ed Christian is mad
Mad enough to turn down business if he thinks the buyer is trying to take advantage of the fact that everybody and his brother...
More on Ed Christian’s anger
For so many years as a buyer of radio time, I was reminded repeatedly by stations and reps about the "laws of supply and demand" when...
Univision Music price revealed
Univision Communications revealed in an SEC filing that Universal Music Group is paying 153 million for Univision Music Group. Here is how the money...
AT&T targeting digital media
Make no mistake about it, telephone companies see themselves becoming more and more players in media, not just connecting people who want to talk...
Separation complete – Westwood One stands alone
Westwood One announced after the stock markets closed Monday that it had closed its transactions with CBS Radio to end CBS management of WW1,...
Where is the bottom?
Radio stocks ended February at an all-time low and TV stocks also slumped badly. But with the US economy teetering on recession and not...
Citadel's Farid Suleman Must Go
"In sports, when you lose, they fire the manager. In radio, when you lose, they fire the team. To borrow some Donald Trump imagery, 'Farid, you're fired'."
FCC upholds Smith's Mission with Nexstar
A complex and comprehensive series of agreements amounting to an LMA between Nexstar Broadcasting and Mission Broadcasting has been upheld by the FCC in...
AWRT attracts a quorum
Who needs an FCC open meeting when you have the American Women in Radio & Television Leadership Summit & Business Conference? At a time...
Democratic candidates raking it in
The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton (D-NY) says it attracted 35M in donations during the month of February, surpassing in one month its best...