Different strokes for Canadian folks
A pair of advertising campaigns run by Canadian province Ontario between 2003 and 2005 alerted citizens to the five warning signs of a stroke....
News Corp. cuts print jobs in UK
It's hard to find a major newspaper anywhere that isn't reducing staff these days, but News Corporation seems to have chosen an inopportune time...
Legal Eagle-eye view of indecency decision
Peter Gutmann of Womble Carlyle Sandridge Rice PLLC is back with an opinion of the very welcome ruling from the Second Circuit on the...
Hedge funds pressuring Tribune
Amid all of the activity at Tribune Company as management tries to win FCC waiver approvals and complete a complicated restructuring, while simultaneously trying...
Another would-be buyer for Dow Jones
The Wall Street Journal reported late yesterday on its website that Brian Tierney wants to take a look at buying Dow Jones & Company....
Déjà vu all over again
We were, to but it mildly, surprised to see an SEC filing pop up late yesterday from Susquehanna Media Co., which no longer exists....
Radio vying with TV for bigger piece of political pie
If your company is fortunate enough to own and operate both radio and television, you may be in the enviable position of talking politicians...
Glut of Citadel shares to hit the market
With the public float of Citadel to balloon 500% when Disney/ABC shareholders get their Citadel shares next week, Bear Stearns analyst Victor Miller is...
For SWMX the Fig loss is deep
But nobody is indispensable just some harder to replace. The good that will come out of Figenshu's departure will be to give CEO Josh...
Figenshu back to Radio
Bill 'Fig' Figenshu opened his full media consulting firm FigMedia-1, reported First by RBR on 07/05/05, RBR #131. At that time RBR also reported...
Burkle enters Dow Jones bidding
Having lost Tribune Co. to Sam Zell, supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle is now entering the bidding for Dow Jones & Co. Burkle has joined...
Still a few markets to go
It has been a while since Clear Channel announced a sale from its divestiture of 448 radio stations in 88 markets, but we hear...
US immigration law changes and their effect on Hispanic media
By Julio RumbautNo matter what the final form of the changes in US immigration law currently being debated, these changes will have a profound...
WEA signs distribution deal with Scripps Networks
WEA Corp., Warner Music Group's U.S. sales and retail distribution company, and Scripps Networks, parent of HGTV and Food Network, announced a deal to...
WABC-TV/Veriphone gets green light for NYC taxicab content
As the first vendor green-lighted by the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission to sell backseat touchscreen monitors to medallion owners, the partnership between WABC-TV...