Disney prepares for ABC Radio merger with Citadel
In preparation for next week's closing of the merger of ABC Radio into Citadel, Disney and Citadel announced some of the financial computations. For...
Granite reorganization complete
Granite Broadcasting has consummated the reorganization plan filed with a federal bankruptcy court in New York, reducing its total debt by more than 300...
Chandlers take all of their chips off the table
Three Chandler family representatives resigned from the Tribune Company board after the Chandler Trusts sold all of the Tribune stock that they could in...
Museum gets a name facelift
Does the name Museum of Television and Radio seem a bit dated in today's multimedia world? The museum's board of directors yesterday renamed it...
The iPhone cometh
If you were watching television at all over the weekend, you no doubt saw an ad from Apple and AT&T Wireless announcing that the...
Citadel now majority owner of Ion
Public shareholders of Ion Media Networks tendered 40,624,885 shares of stock to Citadel Investment Group's CIG Media LLC by the Friday deadline and all...
Chandler reps hit the road
Now that phase one of the Tribune Company going-private transaction has closed, the three representatives of the Chandler family have resigned from the board...
Pleased to meet you
Rupert Murdoch introduced himself to members of the Bancroft family yesterday in an effort to convince them to accept the five billion bucks that...
Niche players rise, others fall
A couple of Wall Street analysts who have been looking at Arbitron's Winter book agree that niche radio - ethnic/religious - is the place...
Talk show fight club?
The Project for Excellence in Journalism talker topic index for 5/20-25/07, as per usual, followed and amplified the news, at the top of the...
A classic case of over-reaching
Florida attorney John B. Thompson claims a lot of the credit for chasing Howard Stern off radio and all the way into space, and...
Sillerman seals the deal
Just hours after the bid was publicly announced, independent directors of CKX on Friday approved a deal that will have founder Bob Sillerman and...
Bancrofts taking bids
Bancroft family resistance to Rupert Murdoch's bid for Dow Jones & Co. is crumbling. The family announced late yesterday that it will meet with...
Regal Guest Response System offered in 114 theatres
Regal Entertainment Group announced 114 locations are now utilizing the Regal Guest Response System (RGRS). With RGRS, patrons can utilize an in-theatre paging device...
Teletubbies to be busted
The Teletubbies are back in the news already. A group called Public Advocate, a 501.c.4 non-profit group which claims to fight for the American...