Arbitron to buy back stock
Arbitron announced that its board of directors has authorized a stock repurchase program under which the company may buy back up to 200 million...
Strong quarter for Liberman
Radio was the growth center in Q3 for Liberman Broadcasting, and not just because of the stations it acquired in Dallas. The LA stations...
DMA issues statement on NY State taxing marketers
Governor Spitzer's New York Department of Taxation and Finance has issued a new regulation that requires out-of-state marketers to begin collecting state sales tax...
Entravision may sell its billboards
Entravision Communications announced late yesterday that it has decided to explore "strategic alternatives" for its outdoor advertising operations and has retained Citi and Moelis...
To quote Charlton Heston
I would guess that Clear Channel lost 77.9 million (11/9/07 RBR #220) when they allowed Roy Laughlin to leave the fold. Roy is the...
Univision, Entravision, ImpreMedia key Hispanic voter drive
Multimedia powerhouses Univision, Entravision and ImpreMedia are in the enviable position of furthering civic public interest goals -- encouraging participation in the 2008 elections...
Spitzer's popularity takes a tumble
Since Eliot Spitzer rode into the New York Governor's Mansion partly on the backs of radio broadcasters from his phony payola probe as the...
Sumner pockets some cash
The Associated Press took notice this week when Sumner Redstone made an SEC filing showing that he had sold 503,529 shares of Viacom for...
Revenues down for SWMX
Online media ad transaction platform company SWMX, operator of the SoftWave Media Exchange, reported that Q3 revenues fell to 321,930 from 632,579 a year...
Big Ben gets transparent
Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke announced a move to provide more public disclosure of the inner workings of the Fed. Instead of issuing economic...
Interep posts positive quarter
In its quarterly report to the SEC, Interep showed Q3 operating income before depreciation and amortization of 13.8 million, as opposed to a loss...
Stations BCF up double digits for ACME
The revenue side for ACME Communications in Q3 is a little hard to follow, since the company had so many balls in the air....
Another engineer has thoughts
Thoughts about directing some TV space to FM I was pleasantly surprised to read about the proposal from engineer John Mullaney to convert the bandwidth in...
Fisher to use Modavox ad delivery platform
Modavox, and Internet broadcasting and technologies pioneer, announced an agreement to deliver video ad campaigns for the websites affiliated with Fisher Communications' 19 television...
Pakistan bleeds, leads
Project for Excellence in Journalism chart for the week of 11/4/07-11/9/07 saw most eyes on Pakistan, where a strong clamp down on personal freedom...