Coverage pattern shot-gunned
Two out of five media agreed: Immigration was the #1 story for the week of 6/24-29/07, and that was enough to put it at...
Tribune vote set for August 21
There's no indication when action may come on required regulatory approvals, but Tribune Company has set a special shareholders meeting for August 21st to...
MySpace founder in Dow Jones bidding
Rupert Murdoch made Brad Greenspan a wealthy man when News Corporation bought EUniverse and its MySpace subsidiary. Now Greenspan wants to challenge Murdoch in...
Talkers demonstrate their independence
You can lead a talker to news, but you can't make him talk about it, would seem to be the lesson from the Project...
Citadel bets on McClatchy
We now know why shares of McClatchy have been shooting up lately. Citadel Investment Group revealed in an SEC filing Friday that it has...
What does Tom Hicks have up his sleeve this time?
He may have retired from Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst (now HM Capital Partners), but Tom Hicks just can't stay away from the big...
Clear Channel deal put on notice
The 452.1M sale of 187 radio stations from Clear Channel to GoodRadio.TV has been put into permit-but-disclose ex parte status by the FCC for...
Clear Channel deal put on notice
The 452.1M sale of 187 radio stations from Clear Channel to GoodRadio.TV has been put into permit-but-disclose ex parte status by the FCC for...
Carat revises US ad spending forecast downward
Carat revised its 2007 U.S. ad spending forecast downward slightly to 5.1% growth. In December, the company had projected a growth rate of 5.2%....
HM buying up yellow pages
HM Capital Partners LLC (formerly Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst), a Dallas-based private equity firm, announced a deal to acquire Phone Directories Company LP,...
RTNDA/Unity Awards
The Radio-Television News Directors Association has announced the winners of the 8th Annual RTNDA/UNITY Awards. RTNDA developed the award with UNITY: Journalists of Color...
More on Clear Channel’s Hawaiian farewell
Today we have more on the Clear Channel license parking project currently being processed by the Federal Communications Commission. The licenses are all headed...
Nielsen in mobile measurement acquisition
The Nielsen Company announced an agreement to acquire San Francisco-based Telephia Inc., which provides syndicated consumer research to the telecom and mobile media markets....
Gannett picks up a billion
Gannett has filled its coffers, announcing that it has sold one billion bucks in new unsecured senior convertible notes due 2037. The 30-year notes...
Summer doldrums, scattered coverage
The biggest story of the week was not about a candidate for president, it was about a big-city mayor who once left the Democratic...