Tribune slides with its traditional media
Both the publishing and the broadcasting units of Tribune Company experienced double-digit slides for the month of May, and the company's total revenues are...
NAB, RTNDA, NAA go to bat for shield law
John Conyers (D-MI), Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Mike Pence (R-IN) are shepherding the latest attempt to get a federal reporters shield law through Congress,...
Will Bloomberg blow 2008 sky high?
Michael Bloomberg, the sitting Mayor of New York, has exited the Republican Party, causing widespread speculation that he is considering a run for the...
Tribune slides with its traditional media
Both the publishing and the broadcasting units of Tribune Company experienced double-digit slides for the month of May, and the company's total revenues are...
Murdoch back to prospecting for WSJ by himself
A couple developments have taken place in the Wall Street Journal saga. For starters, the full Board of Directors of Dow Jones is now...
Marti ups cellcast operating footprint
Broadcast Electronics' Marti Electronics announced the availability of a CDMA version of its Digital Cellcast remote unit for wireless use in service areas covered...
Towering financial opportunity behind your station?
Every radio and television station has a tower. But not all stations own their tower. Some broadcasters have discovered that it can be financially...
NAB battles latest political pickpocket attempt
The Fair Elections Now Act (S. 1285) certainly isn't fair to everybody, and broadcasters can get in front of the line of aggrieved parties....
Journal spins newspapers
Multimedia Journal Communications, which owns and operates newspaper, television and radio interests (all three, in fact, in its headquarters market of Milwaukee), is selling...
Market appears to be flooded with station inventory
Activity begets activity in the M&A world. With demand so heavy in the sales of the New York Times television group, ABC Radio, some...
Ad flights address immigration battle
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) Congressional Task Force does not want amnesty granted for what it pegs as "10-20M illegal aliens," and...
Diffusion is the name of the game
No one story broke away from the pack during the week of 6/10-15/07, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, and 23 different...
Dan Snyder/RedZone buys Dick Clark Productions
RedZone Capital, the private equity firm co-founded by Redskins owner Dan Snyder, has purchased TV production company Dick Clark Productions Inc. (DCP) for 175...
Gannett can’t wait for politics to heat up
Another multimedia company is suffering from the two-year political roller coaster on the television side, and is simply suffering, period, on the newspaper side....
Take no Prisoner attitude
Terry Semel is out as the Chief Executive Officer at Yahoo! and Jerry Yang is in and ends what experts say was a long...