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Democrats dominate Super Duper air wars

At this point in the 2008 presidential race, the biggest warchests have been amassed by Democrats, and it has been showing in the run-up to ...
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Ed Wilson heading Tribune Broadcasting

“There is tremendous upside at Tribune,” declared Ed Wilson as he jumped to the company as President of Tribune Broadcasting. Wilson was previously President of ...
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Republicans closed the gap in Q4 2007

At the end of Q3 2007, Republican presidential candidates were 65.9M behind their Democratic counterparts in the total fund-raising race, with a total take of ...
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CCU takes "body blows," still standing

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Bear Stearns analyst Vic Miller says Clear Channel has taken some "body blows," such as the leaked cost cutting memo first posted on RBR.com and ...
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MTV spearheads mass-media event Saturday

The assets of cable, broadcast , satellite and the internet will be harnessed 2/2/08 at 6PM Eastern in an effort to give voters, particularly youthful ...
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Boston is Super Bowl crazy

RBR and TVBR have been getting announcements from stations in Boston going all out for Sunday’s Super bowl in Phoenix, which they hope will cap ...
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Rereg threat debated

Potential FCC re-regulation under the guise of encouraging “localism” was a hot topic for discussion as the NAB Board of Directors met this week in ...
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Tribune Company sells LA studio complex

The price tag for the Tribune Studios complex, known to many as “Tara,” is 125 million as Tribune Company under Sam Zell seeks to clean ...
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Pacing off now, wait till after Tuesday

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Super Duper Tuesday may not be a windfall, the Mitt Romney (R-MA) campaign has indicated that it will not be going in for a major ...
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One week seems to spawn another

The total media attention paid to the 2008 campaign during the week of 1/21/08-1/27/08 was exactly the same as during the prior week of 1/14/08-1/20/08, ...
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Beasley set to "Rock the Vote" in NC

The six station Coastal Carolina radio cluster owned and operated by Beasley Broadcasting Group Inc. claims over 365K regular listeners. With a key election facing ...
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ACLU decries FCC nanny play

The 1.4M+ the FCC is billing broadcasters for a 2003 episode of "NYPD Blue" has been roundly criticized by the American Civil Liberties Union, which ...
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All night long

"We are considering requiring that licensees maintain a physical presence at each radio broadcasting facility during all hours of operation." So says the FCC as ...
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Malone-Diller battle gets down and dirty

The lawyers are having a field day with what is now a fight over control of IAC/InterActive Corporation. John Malone’s Liberty Media has sued to ...
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Analyst ranks thinned again

No, we’re not recycling a story from yesterday. Today it’s Credit Suisse that has dropped coverage of broadcasting stocks, bidding farewell to John Klim. That’s ...
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Clear Channel reiterates Q1 closing

The statement that the going private buyout is “expected to occur in the first quarter 2008” was repeated by Clear Channel yesterday as it announced ...
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Main studio, schmain studio

As part of the FCC's large-scale look into improving the localism of broadcast stations, it says it shares the concern of commenters "that licensees locate ...
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ICBC hangs out a new shingle

ICBC, better known as Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, has been running broadcast facilities for a long time, and must be hugely popular in regulatory circles ...
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FCC tells ABC: No ifs, ands or butts

An episode of NYPD Blue first aired in February 2003 has resulted in an FCC fine meted out to 52 ABC-affiliated television stations. Language was ...
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Hedge fund names nominees

We now know who the Harbinger hedge fund wants to place on the board of directors at the New York Times Company. It has joined ...
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