Figenshu back to Radio
Bill 'Fig' Figenshu opened his full media consulting firm FigMedia-1, reported First by RBR on 07/05/05, RBR #131. At that time RBR also reported...
Burkle enters Dow Jones bidding
Having lost Tribune Co. to Sam Zell, supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle is now entering the bidding for Dow Jones & Co. Burkle has joined...
Still a few markets to go
It has been a while since Clear Channel announced a sale from its divestiture of 448 radio stations in 88 markets, but we hear...
US immigration law changes and their effect on Hispanic media
By Julio RumbautNo matter what the final form of the changes in US immigration law currently being debated, these changes will have a profound...
WEA signs distribution deal with Scripps Networks
WEA Corp., Warner Music Group's U.S. sales and retail distribution company, and Scripps Networks, parent of HGTV and Food Network, announced a deal to...
WABC-TV/Veriphone gets green light for NYC taxicab content
As the first vendor green-lighted by the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission to sell backseat touchscreen monitors to medallion owners, the partnership between WABC-TV...
It was another scattered news week
Apparently Iraq would have had to have been carrying a communicable disease to maintain its stranglehold on the newshole during the week of 5/27/07-6/1/07,...
Disney prepares for ABC Radio merger with Citadel
In preparation for next week's closing of the merger of ABC Radio into Citadel, Disney and Citadel announced some of the financial computations. For...
Granite reorganization complete
Granite Broadcasting has consummated the reorganization plan filed with a federal bankruptcy court in New York, reducing its total debt by more than 300...
Chandlers take all of their chips off the table
Three Chandler family representatives resigned from the Tribune Company board after the Chandler Trusts sold all of the Tribune stock that they could in...
Museum gets a name facelift
Does the name Museum of Television and Radio seem a bit dated in today's multimedia world? The museum's board of directors yesterday renamed it...
The iPhone cometh
If you were watching television at all over the weekend, you no doubt saw an ad from Apple and AT&T Wireless announcing that the...
Citadel now majority owner of Ion
Public shareholders of Ion Media Networks tendered 40,624,885 shares of stock to Citadel Investment Group's CIG Media LLC by the Friday deadline and all...
Chandler reps hit the road
Now that phase one of the Tribune Company going-private transaction has closed, the three representatives of the Chandler family have resigned from the board...
Pleased to meet you
Rupert Murdoch introduced himself to members of the Bancroft family yesterday in an effort to convince them to accept the five billion bucks that...