Introducing the TVBR Television Index
For the past 10 years our sister publication, Radio Business Report, has calculated and published a Radio Index showing the relative movement of the...
CommScope closes Andrew acquisition
As 2007 neared its close, CommScope Inc. closed on its 2.65 billion bucks acquisition of electronics equipment maker Andrew Corporation (6/28/07 RBR #126). Former...
Changes to the RBR Radio Index
As the New Year begins, we are making some changes to the 10-year-old Radio Index that has been tallied daily by RBR. First of...
It didn't happen in 2007
A lot of things happened last year, but a lot more things that might have happened did not. Here is our take on the...
Landmark Communications on the auction block
Landmark Communications confirmed today that the entire company is up for sale. The private company, which had an estimated $1.75 billion in revenues in...
Fox draws fire for Paul omission
Fox News Channel is hosting a Republican presidential candidate debate on 1/6/08, two days before votes are cast in the nation's first primary, and...
CNN to stop using Reuters
CNN said on Thursday it would stop using the Reuters news service, ending a 27-year relationship, to cut costs and invest in its own...
Regarding “The year of yearning to go private”
As the year ends, let's connect the dots. The corporate conglomeration formula has been simple: 1/ Work with NAB to persuade Congress and FCC...
Credit crunch claims another victim
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the tight credit markets have at least postponed an attempt by the Hoiles family to...
CC Outdoor teams with FBI for “Most Wanted Messages''
Clear Channel Outdoor announced an agreement with the FBI to display “wanted” messages on all of its digital billboards across the country. This national...
Talkers develop tunnel vision
"With the first serious tallies of the 2008 campaign looming large on the horizon, it's going to take a major cataclysm to oust campaign...
Best rumor of 2007
Don’t tell anyone, but we hear that Sam Zell has had talks with Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital about the possibility of...
The year of yearning to go private
It seems most CEOs of publicly traded broadcasting companies wished in their hearts to leave Wall Street and go private in 2007. Of those...
News Corporation Sells 8 Television Stations
News Corporation announced today that it will sell eight of its owned-and-operated FOX network affiliated television stations to Oak Hill Capital Partners for approximately $1.1 billion in cash.
Sinclair goes shopping
In yet another investment outside broadcasting, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that it had purchased, through an 80% owned subsidiary LLC of Sinclair Investment Group...