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...
Andrew sold for 2.6 billion
After rebuffing a takeover bid from CommScope last year for 1.7 billion, equipment maker Andrew Corporation has now agreed to a takeover. But the...
EAS oops in Illinois
It appears that someone in the Illinois Emergency Management agency was attempting to test some new EAS equipment yesterday and instead sent out a...
MAGNA Global unveils expenditure forecasts
At yesterday's Advertising and Media Outlook Update hosted by Universal McCann, MAGNA Global presented their current estimates and forecasts of expenditures on emerging media...
Murdoch deal for Dow Jones moves forward
The Wall Street Journal reports that its parent company, Dow Jones & Co., has come to terms with News Corporation on measures to protect...
What does the Supreme Court ruling on issue ads mean to you?
The US Supreme Court removed barriers on ads financed by corporations and labor groups that mention a federal candidate and are run in the...
WIPO wipeout
The World Intellectual Property Organization has failed to come up with new international standards to protect electronic copyrights. According to William New of Intellectual...
But wait, there’s more
It turns out that the Clear Channel station parking garage revealed last week wasn't complete. Two more floors (or documents filed with the FCC)...
Yahoo to merge ad sales departments
Yahoo said its chief domestic sales officer Wenda Millard resigned and the company will merge its search and display ad departments in the U.S....
Murdoch-Bancroft talks back on track
There's no guarantee that a deal will be done, but the Wall Street Journal - which has been closely following the bidding for its...
Nielsen, NetRatings merger complete
The Nielsen Company and NetRatings on Friday completed the previously announced merger of NetRatings with a wholly owned subsidiary of The Nielsen Company. The...