Small decline for Barrington
Barrington Broadcasting Group reports that Q2 gross revenues were down 1.8% to 34.2 million, with local up 5.7% while national was down 6.3% and,...
Phil Rizzuto dead at 89
Phil Rizzuto, the New York Yankees hall of famer who went on to a long career in radio and TV, has died at age...
Rutgers player sues CBS, Imus
On the same day that CBS settled the threatened lawsuit by fired morning host Don Imus, both CBS and Imus were sued by one...
Diffuse coverage during second disaster week in a row
During the week of 8/5/07-8/10/07, the Project for Excellence in Journalism from a great deal of disagreement between the five media it tracks as...
Revenues and sales expenses down for Interep
Interep reports that Q2 commission revenues declined 14.7% to 16.1 million. "The majority of this 2.8 million decrease is attributable to the termination of...
Double digits for Liberman
LBI Media Holdings, the parent company of Liberman Broadcasting, reported that Q2 revenues rose 11% to 32.5 million, with both radio and TV up....
Any bargains out there?
RBR readers know that radio stocks have fallen dramatically this summer. Bear Stearns analyst Victor Miller notes that broadcast stocks have fallen 32% in...
Comment on the FCC proposing limits
Joseph Emert's comment on the FCC proposing limits on the number of applications one entity can file in the upcoming NCE FM window (8/14/07...
AP signs with Teletrax
Teletrax announced that it has entered into a multi-year agreement to track video usage for the Associated Press (AP), the world's oldest and largest...
Revenues down 2.4% for Allbritton
Fiscal Q3 (April-June) revenues declined 2.4% to 58 million bucks for Allbritton Communications. As you would expect, most of that was due to a...
No Gannett buyout on tap
Internet bloggers jumped to conclusions last week by reading a lot more into a routine SEC filing by Gannett than was really there. The...
Journal Broadcast under attack
Two employees of Journal Broadcast Group's Milwaukee radio and TV operation were attacked last week by a pack of stray pit bulls outside the...
Gannett launches 100+ local mobile sites
Breaking news, sports, weather and other must-have local information now can be accessed easily by mobile phone users in more than 100 local markets,...
Strong quarter for Univision
It's not political revenues, but soccer that made for tough comps at Univision. Q2 net revenues were down 6.9% over all to 562.2 million,...
Mixed bag for the press in Pew poll
The opinion of the average citizen on the quality of journalism these days is somewhat of a mixed bag, according to a study just...