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Political ads cost broadcaster half a million

TV Azteca accepted money from a coalition of political organizations to run ads back in March, and that is a no-no – in Mexico. The ...

CEOs see business picking up in Q3, Q4

Is it possible that the US has gotten past the worst of the latest economic down cycle? That’s what the Conference Board is suggesting based ...

Instead of the decline that Wall Street had expected, CBS Corporation delivered Q1 revenues that were essentially flat, with double digit gains in operating income ...

XM/Sirius road to profitability?

Stock analyst Stan Muse expects that it’ll take a year for the merged entity of XM and Sirius to start turning a profit. How will ...

StopBigMedia.com is attempting to block the acquisition of Sam Zell’s Tribune’s Newsday by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation with yet another click and send campaign, and ...

OK, let’s see if we have this straight – this is an acceptable merger, but we have to have special provisions in place to prevent monopolistic behavior. We say that if it quacks like a monopoly and waddles like a monopoly, it’s a monopoly....

We’re referring to the hit video game, which helped drive 16% revenue growth for Viacom’s Media Networks unit in Q1, along with 8% ad revenue ...

Does Murdoch expect to win a waiver from the FCC? He’d like that, for sure. But we’re betting that he expects to see the crossownership rule struck down...

Even the formerly red-hot Hispanic market is soft

Spanish radio and TV specialist Entravision reported that Q1 revenues were down 2% to $55.7 million, with consolidated EBITDA down 13% to $15 million. The ...

Making census of it all

The US Census Bureau has some new racial numbers out, so let’s take a look. The total US population is pegged at 301.6M. Non-Hispanic whites ...

The evolution of brand integration in Spanish language television

Continued innovation in media, interactive, planning, creativity and every aspect of Hispanic marketing, is what corporate marketers depend on to build brand equity and what Hispanic agencies deliver. ...

Long Island Newsday quotes sources as saying Cablevision is about to make a 650 million bucks bid for the newspaper, topping by 70 million the ...

Pennsylvania returns focus to elections

The Project for Excellence in Journalism found the focus of the journalistic media back on the 2008 political campaign during for week of 4/21/08-4/27/08, a ...