Tribune buyout may close next week
Sam Zell is quoted in the Chicago Tribune as saying that next Thursday is the target date for closing the going private buyout that...
Dielectric signs with Sutro Tower in San Fran
Dielectric Communications announced that Sutro Tower, Inc., has selected Dielectric as the provider of antennas, combiners, and transmission lines for its tower site in...
Classmates.com pulls IPO
Well, we won’t find out after all just how much Wall Street thinks the social networking craze is really worth. Citing “current market conditions,”...
Tribune expects Cubs sale in first half of ’08
Look for sales of the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field, related real estate and the company’s stake in Comcast SportsNet Chicago to close in the...
Tracking the candidates
Nielsen Company has to scoop on where the presidential candidates are making their early expenditures, and how frequently. Democrats as a group are spending...
Campaign leads high-turnover list
Five events came out of nowhere to make it onto the top ten list on Project for Excellence in Journalism's news coverage chart for...
Ad-dled by politics
NBC Television Network first turned down, then accepted an ad from conservative watchdog Freedom Watch which was intended to thank troops stationed overseas for...
Down year for Senate spending?
Wachovia Capital Markets' Marci Ryvicker and associates are looking for at best a rerun of the amount of spending on Senate races as we...
No bidding war likely for Gemstar-TV Guide
Analyst Alan Gould of Natixix Bleichroeder says the sale price of 2.8 billion bucks for Gemstar-TV Guide was disappointing. But he also doesn’t see...
Social networking IPO this week
How much is Wall Street really willing to bet on the social networking craze? We’ll find out this week as Classmates Media Corporation prices...
Fidelity cuts Clear Channel stake
Once the largest institutional shareholder of Clear Channel Communications, FMR Corp., parent of the Fidelity Mutual Funds group, has been selling off most of...
News Corp. finds buyer for Gemstar-TV Guide
The long nightmare is over for News Corporation. Macrovision has agreed to buy Gemstar-TV Guide for 2.8 billion bucks. That’s a tiny fraction of...
Iraq beats out campaign for Q3 coverage
It has seemed almost impossible to avoid news of the presidential campaign, even back in the third quarter when the final vote was still...
NABOB tries to shoot down big group backers
The National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters said that equity backer participation in certain large broadcast groups was granted contingent on divestitures in markets...
Wachovia sees 4.4B in political dollars in the pipe
The crystal ball used by Marci Ryvicker and her crew at Wachovia Capital Markets seems to be tuned to the same key as other...