Feedback on pacings and PPM
Regarding "National Pacings Dismal for Q1" (1/23/08 RBR #15).Thank you for showing what the RAB/Forester Study showed in 2005 regarding the future of radio billing...
The good news: pullback on campaign coverage
But the bad news? That's because the economy is tanking. The troubles with the housing bubble and subprimes, the weakening dollar and the canaries...
The cross-utility of sales advice
Sales consultancy Associates Interactive has taken note of soft holiday sales in the retail electronics field, and provided some pointers to pick things up...
Taking the bloom off the berg?
According to new Gallup Poll, there does not appear to be much of a public appetite for a third party candidate at the moment....
CEOs like Texas, Nevada and North Carolina
These states finished one-two-three in a survey of chief executive officers conducted by Chief Executive Magazine. The key for the top two was the...
Ion set to complete going private
Citadel Investment Group’s CIG Media is now the majority shareholder of Ion Media Networks, but there’s still some details to attend to so the...
Publishing powers quarter for Meredith
While newspaper publishers are suffering, Meredith Corporation posted earnings growth of nearly 30% in fiscal Q2 (September-December) for its magazine publishing operations. Broadcasting revenues...
Bargain hunting time
Are there bargains to be had in the stock market these days? Analyst David Miller at SMH Capital (Sanders Morris Harris) is telling clients...
More noise around Bloomberg
Do you feel a draft? It might be coming from the Draft Bloomberg Committee, a bipartisan effort aimed at drawing the ex-Democratic ex-Republican and...
Like father, like son…and like daughter
Two of Rupert Murdoch’s adult children are in the news for deals they’ve cut to build their own media empires. Lachlan Murdoch has teamed...
PAC-ing it in
The Federal Election Commission says the number of registered political action committees has gone up 1.5% in the last six months as of 1/1/08....
Talkers take to the tunnel
That's tunnel as in tunnel vision. As a general rule, talk hosts bounce off whatever is in the news during a given week and...
DCCC kicks off Red to Blue campaign
The headline result of the 2006 midterm elections was the ability of the Democratic Party to capture majorities of both houses of Congress in...
Newspaper chains sell newsprint company
SP Newsprint Company announced a deal to be bought by White Birch Paper Company for 350 million in cash. That cash will be going...
Feedback on Jim Boyle’s ideas to build new radio revenues
Jim Boyle is one smart guy. The ideas are certainly viable. However, if radio was doing its job right, we would not have to...