Spot Monitoring Systems: The latest features: Part II

RBR-TVBR, with Kim Vasey's help, decided to find out the latest offerings from who is left out there and what the latest offerings are in getting spot data

How Not To Harm Your Company’s Privates

Why use an NDA? “A dean of the Washington communications bar” and a media financial consultant explain the benefits

Getting a Symphony Out of a One-Man Band

If you’ve ever seen a one man band, a really good one man band, (and there are such things!), then perhaps you, like me, have been mesmerized by the number

How A Sales Manager Can Support Seasoned Reps’ Efforts Best

"Of the different types of Sales Managers, the Maintenance Sales Manager is typically the easiest job of the group," says expert sales training coach Barrett Riddleberger. For him, Maintenance is the key term here. Why? It shows that the Sales Manager maintains an effective sales team and processes that someone else has put into place.

The Impact Of ‘Big Media’ Competition on Local Media

Tied to the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA)'s reintroduction in Congress was a Friday House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law hearing titled "Reviving Competition, Part 2: Saving the Free and Diverse Press." On behalf of the NAB, which supports the JCPA, Graham Media Group head Emily Barr testified.

This date in radio & television

March 24th: As Jackie Gleason would say, a little traveling music!!! We offer it for radio, vaudeville, Broadway and film performer Belle Baker who became the first person to host a radio broadcast from a moving train, on this day in 1932. That variety program was heard on New York's WABC. Eddie Cantor paid this lady quite the compliment at one time in saying Belle Baker is, "Dinah Shore, Patti Page, Peggy Lee and Judy Garland all rolled into one."

Observation: ‘A Big Case For Radio in the Big Apple’

From Uber to Lyft, from retailer to sundry shop, traditional radio appears to be alive and well in Midtown Manhattan, let alone the rest of the Big Apple. This leads our Editor-in-Chief to exclaim, "Can someone please alert Madison Avenue that New York loves Radio?!"
FCC

The New FCC Consumer Advisory Committee

Regular Media Information Bureau columnist Ken Benner is full of glee today, thanks to the establishment — or substantial enhancement — of the FCC's Consumer Advisory Committee. Among the issues the committee may consider is the "implementation of Commission rules and consumer participation in the FCC rulemaking process." What does this mean for you? Benner explains it all. 

A New Tool For Fully Interactive Multi-Platform TV

Thanks to the rapid ascent of "over-the-top" (OTT) viewing of full-length scripted programming, reality shows, sports, and news programming, TV isn't just that box in the living room anymore. Srini Dharmaji wants every member of the broadcast TV industry's C-Suite to fully understand this. In the RBR+TVBR INFOCUS report, we examine how social and digital platforms are now, more than ever, essential extensions of VHF and UHF stations.
Larry Patrick

Could Radio’s Enemy Be A Computer?

Patrick Communications Managing Partner Larry Patrick is in the news today for his brokerage firm's representation of the buyer of a trio of radio stations from Alpha Media. As that deal was being finalized, Patrick took a moment while at his part-time Wyoming home prior to a trip to Washington, D.C., to collect his thoughts on a radio industry combatant many not often thing of. Could you be a guilty party?

Primer on Media Mixing

I’d like to dispel the notion that traditional media and social media do not mix well together. There’s a widely-held fear of giving the general public access to station personnel (even though it’s the job
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Proposed 2012 FCC regulatory fees

The FCC has announced its plans to collect 2012 regulatory fees in a filing window to open in September. The total amount is mandated...

RBR-TVBR Fearless Forecast for 2011

As we have noted on many occasions, here at RBR-TVBR we are better at writing about what happened than we are at guessing what...

Why CBS Radio's Valerie Blackburn is a "Person to Watch" in 2012

During this time was to create the role of market controller, which was new to the industry

Defining The ‘CTCSRPAB’

What the heck is 'CTCSRPAB'?? For one, it has nothing to do with the CRTC, Canada's equivalent of the FCC. However, it has everything to with the FCC and how to avoid a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture. Media Information Bureau featured columnist Ken Benner explains what that acronym stands for in this column, which results from a request from an RBR+TVBR Member.