http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-12-03T20:14:12-06:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/campaign_focus_remains_strong.html 2008-10-21T16:12:00-05:00 2008-10-21T16:12:00-05:00 RBR/TVBR With Election Day closing in, the 2008 presidential campaign was front and center in the news, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism coverage http://www.rbr.com/media-news/top_ten_hot_congressional_districts.html 2008-10-21T15:17:00-05:00 2008-10-21T15:17:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Congressional Quarterly has put out a new list of congressional battlegrounds, based not on tight polling but on how much cash the challenger has amassed http://www.rbr.com/media-news/south_bend_lptv_sale_sparks_protest.html 2008-10-21T05:16:00-05:00 2008-10-21T05:16:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Wheeling and dealing in the LPTV market is usually buried deep below the radar. But in South Bend, pushback against such a deal is being led by watchdogs Media Access Project and Free Press http://www.rbr.com/media-news/plastic_flashing_in_battle_for_congress.html 2008-10-19T03:56:00-05:00 2008-10-19T03:56:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The National Republican Congressional Committee has already dipped into the future for a reported $8M to defend turf as it locks horns with its opposite http://www.rbr.com/media-news/censor_me_please.html 2008-10-19T08:55:00-05:00 2008-10-19T08:55:00-05:00 Dave Seyler It sounds like a new horizon in the application of the First Amendment, but the decision of WFMZ-TV in Allentown PA to censor a congressional http://www.rbr.com/media-news/analyst_still_on_duty.html 2008-10-19T08:32:00-05:00 2008-10-19T08:32:00-05:00 Jack Messmer Following last week’s pink slipping of yet another broadcast analyst as Citi cut staff, Lee Westerfield touched base with RBR/TVBR to state that he is http://www.rbr.com/media-news/redstone_s_company_talking_to_debt_holders.html 2008-10-19T08:22:00-05:00 2008-10-19T08:22:00-05:00 Jack Messmer National Amusements Inc. (NAI), via which the Redstone family controls both CBS Corporation and Viacom, confirms that it is in talks with its lenders about http://www.rbr.com/media-news/national_committees_improvising_final_strategies.html 2008-10-16T15:50:00-05:00 2008-10-16T15:50:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The political category giveth and the political category taketh away, all depending on the shifting sands of the polls, the sheer number of battlegrounds and http://www.rbr.com/media-news/campaign_back_on_top.html 2008-10-16T15:43:00-05:00 2008-10-16T15:43:00-05:00 RBR/TVBR The latest coverage charts from the Project for Excellence in Journalism, for the week of 10/6/08-10/12/08, put the 2008 presidential campaign back on top of http://www.rbr.com/media-news/sbs_to_honor_late_founder.html 2008-10-16T15:36:00-05:00 2008-10-16T15:36:00-05:00 Jack Messmer Spanish Broadcasting System announced that WRMA-FM “Romance 106.7 FM” Miami and Mega TV will celebrate SBS’ 25th anniversary and pay tribute to SBS’ founder Pablo http://www.rbr.com/media-news/tv_guide_price_revealed.html 2008-10-15T19:31:00-05:00 2008-10-15T19:31:00-05:00 Jack Messmer We now know how much a private equity firm paid to take TV Guide Magazine off the hands of Macrovision. Here’s a hint: You can’t buy a single item at Starbucks for the same amount. In announcing the acquisition OpenGate Capital called TV Guide an http://www.rbr.com/media-news/redstones_selling_stock.html 2008-10-15T16:13:00-05:00 2008-10-15T16:13:00-05:00 Jack Messmer The Redstone family’s National Amusements Inc. has sold 700,000 shares of Viacom stock and 1.7 million shares of CBS stock. The stock sales have also http://www.rbr.com/media-news/broadcasters_may_control_food_fight_fate.html 2008-10-15T10:40:00-05:00 2008-10-15T10:40:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Deborah Taylor Tate got to be Acting Chair of the FCC for a day as it convened a special session in Nashville to discuss the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/tv_guide_finds_a_buyer.html 2008-10-14T16:02:00-05:00 2008-10-14T16:02:00-05:00 Jack Messmer Macrovision, which bought Gemstar-TV Guide a few months ago for $2.8 billion, announced the sale of one of the pieces it didn’t ever plan to http://www.rbr.com/media-news/news_corp_divestiture_is_dead.html 2008-10-14T16:00:00-05:00 2008-10-14T16:00:00-05:00 Jack Messmer JC Decaux and News Corporation have called off talks to have Decaux, the world’s 2nd largest outdoor advertising company, buy News Corporation’s billboard business in http://www.rbr.com/media-news/more_political_pie_anyone.html 2008-10-14T10:38:00-05:00 2008-10-14T10:38:00-05:00 Dave Seyler A record amount of cash is earmarked for spending during the 2008 political season, and the Republican National Committee is thinking about spending even more. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/journal_broadcast_group_signs_with_lan_international.html 2008-10-14T09:36:00-05:00 2008-10-14T09:36:00-05:00 Carl Marcucci Journal Broadcast Group has contracted with LAN International to license VIERO e-PIF, LAN’s electronic public inspection file system.     VIERO e-PIF is groundbreaking software that allows http://www.rbr.com/media-news/heavy_hitters_go_to_bat_for_ad_embeds.html 2008-10-14T19:36:00-05:00 2008-10-14T19:36:00-05:00 Dave Seyler A consortium of big-name broadcast companies and trade associations, calling their group National Media Providers, has filed extensive commentary on product placement http://www.rbr.com/media-news/media_critic_sends_warning_to_conservatives.html 2008-10-09T19:34:00-05:00 2008-10-09T19:34:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Brian C. Anderson has a piece in Investor’s Business Daily warning members of the conservative media to brace themselves. He says http://www.rbr.com/media-news/the_silver_lining_of_recession.html 2008-10-13T03:35:00-05:00 2008-10-13T03:35:00-05:00 Dave Seyler A University of Maryland professor says that a deep and prolonged recession will be good for some entertainment businesses, and the top of his list are traditional broadcast television and radio