Talking up the campaign
We noted that next year's presidential election provides ready-made filler for journalists in an otherwise slow news week, such as 10/28-11/2/07, when the topic...
Disney posts record earnings for fiscal year
Wrapping up its fiscal year, The Walt Disney Company reported that Q4 (June-September) revenues were up 3% to 8.93 billion. That brought the full...
Newspaper staffers take buyouts in Milwaukee
It looks like plenty of employees lined up to take voluntary separation payments, with a healthcare benefit, to help reduce staffing overhead at the...
Praises on Janice Finkel-Greene story
Short but sweet-we received some positive feedback on our story yesterday with Initiative Media EVP/Local Broadcast and EVP/Director Futures and Technology Janice Finkel-Greene (11/8/07...
Young sees MyNetworkTV improvement
Q3 revenues were down 7.8% to 47.5 million for Young Broadcasting and station operating performance was off 28.4% to 5.8 million. Looking ahead, though,...
Q3 revenues down 3% for Hearst-Argyle
Working against last year's politically-inflated comps, Hearst-Argyle Television reported that Q3 revenues were down 3% to 176.8 million. Absent political, ad sales were up...
Billboards boost Clear Channel, but radio
Radio revenues were down 1% in Q3 to 882.2 million, so it was a 14% improvement by outdoor to 817.5 million that gave Clear...
Another Clear Channel deal in trouble?
Both the Wall Street Journal and Reuters reported yesterday that Providence Equity Partners has gotten cold feet and may try to get out of...
Q3 nearly flat for Cumulus
A gain is better than a loss, so at least Cumulus can say that Q3 revenues were up, if only by 0.3% to 84.2...
Rooting for a Giuliani-Clinton race
This has nothing to do with politics, but rather ad revenues for SBS CEO Raul Alarcon. He figures the SBS radio stations would see...
TV down, but News Corporation still beats expectations
TV revenues were up 42 million in fiscal Q1 (July-September) for News Corporation to 1.145 billion, but TV operating income declined nine million to...
Gray sees "modest" Q4 growth
Having already booked some political revenues from a hot off-year gubernatorial race in Kentucky, Gray Television is telling Wall Street to expect Q4 revenues...
Univision partners with American Red Cross
Univision Communications has partnered with the American Red Cross to help the fundraising efforts for the victims of the recent disastrous weather that has...
Q4 looking better than Q3 for SBS
Spanish Broadcasting System is telling Wall Street that Q4 radio revenues will be up in the low single digits, largely due to rapidly growing...
Salem up in Q3, sees Q4 down
Salem Communications reported that Q3 revenues were up 0.3% to 58.1 million. That gain came from the company's fast-growing new media and publishing operations,...