Bancrofts bicker, Murdoch decides
In-family squabbling by the Bancrofts continued beyond their agreement to sell Dow Jones and Company to News Corporation for 5.6 billion bucks. The family...
Univision Q3 up 9.8%
Univision Communications Q3 net revenue increased 9.8% to 529.1 million from 481.9 million Q3 2006, excluding 2006 FIFA World Cup estimated incremental net revenues...
Radio flat, but TV boosts Q3 for SBS
Wall Street may not like Spanish Broadcasting System's move into television, but it was Mega TV that accounted for a 2% increase in Q3...
No big story? Hit the election some more
The previous week's big story, the California wildfires, was still smoldering enough to capture third place of total media news coverage, but it was...
Regent sees Q4 growth
After reporting same station revenues down slightly in Q3, although revenues including acquisitions were up nearly 25%, Regent Communications surprised analysts by projecting that...
Radio One recording in red
Bear Stearns thought Radio One's Q3 results were a little better than expected; others thought they underperformed; but whether or not you were an...
Tough times for newspapers
Circulation figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations show that US daily newspapers lost 2.6% of their subscribers in the six-month period through September....
Creativity seems to have taken a back seat
A reader responded to our comment about the seeming lack of radio buzz in our home market...Creativity seems to have taken a back seat,...
Jefferies advising Interep
Interep says in an SEC filing that it has retained Jefferies & Company as its exclusive financial advisor as the company continues efforts to...
Lincoln boosts dividend
Lincoln Financial Group has boosted its dividend by two cents per share to 41.5 cents. It's the 25th straight year that the company has...
Looking ahead at Radio One
CEO Alfred Liggins and CFO Scott Royster are seeing more of the same coming up in Q4, meaning continued sluggishness in the radio business....
Cox Radio Q3 revenues down slightly
Cox Radio's Q3 net revenues were 111.8 million, down 0.8% from Q3 2006. Local revenues decreased 0.9% and national revenues decreased 5.2%, each as...
Diller busting up IAC
Some other media companies have recently announced plans to split in two, but Barry Diller is going much further - he's splitting IAC (InterActive...
Media investment in India soaring
Media investment in India is on an explosive growth path and is expected to exceed 5 billion next year and possibly hit 10 billion...
Up quarter, but no celebrating at Saga
Much of yesterday's conference call was devoted to efforts to fix problems with Saga's radio operations in Columbus, OH and Norfolk, VA, two of...