Another engineer has thoughts
Thoughts about directing some TV space to FM I was pleasantly surprised to read about the proposal from engineer John Mullaney to convert the bandwidth in...
Fisher to use Modavox ad delivery platform
Modavox, and Internet broadcasting and technologies pioneer, announced an agreement to deliver video ad campaigns for the websites affiliated with Fisher Communications' 19 television...
Pakistan bleeds, leads
Project for Excellence in Journalism chart for the week of 11/4/07-11/9/07 saw most eyes on Pakistan, where a strong clamp down on personal freedom...
Arbitron's current problems
Problems with the big markets and PPM aren't their only problems - there's big trouble in the Condensed Markets too. In September we got...
Consumers slow to start Holiday shopping
Retailers who are concerned that holiday sales aren't living up to expectations needn't worry: shoppers are off to a slow start. According to the...
A view of PPM from the TV world…
It's easy to understand why Bob Neil, Cox Radio's CEO, and others raise concerns that the Houston and Philadelphia dollar downturns are in some...
Republicans sign on to Univision debate
Making inroads into the Hispanic vote has been a cornerstone of George W. Bush's political strategy, but the volatile immigration issue has put it...
DG FastChannel Q3 revenues up 34%
DG FastChannel, a leading provider of digital media services to the advertising, entertainment and broadcast industries, reported Q3 revenue of 25.1 million compared to...
Entercom sails through choppy seas
Radio group Entercom navigated a difficult Q3 on more or less an even keel; net revcenue was up 8%, to 123.1M, but same station...
Citadel slumped in Q3
Citadel Broadcasting CEO Farid Suleman made no bones about being disappointed in Q3 revenues, which were down 3.6% on a pro forma basis to...
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...
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...
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...