http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-09-07T21:47:18-05:00 http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/which_new_shows_will_be_hits.html 2008-09-05T00:00:00-05:00 2008-09-05T00:00:00-05:00 Jack Messmer Far be it from us to try to second-guess the network experts, who frequently get it wrong anyway, but the folks at TargetCast tcm have taken up the challenge. NBC is judged to be trying the most new things http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/analyst_throws_wet_blanket_on_catv_prospects.html 2008-09-05T11:26:00-05:00 2008-09-05T11:26:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Cable brought in about $5B in revenues during 2007, but it’s hoping to ride new interactive advertising capability to a $15B payday by the middle http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/tvb_forecasts_big_gains_two_years_out.html 2008-09-04T05:51:00-05:00 2008-09-04T05:51:00-05:00 Jack Messmer Total spot for TV stations is expected to decline 2-5% next year without the Olympics and federal elections, but the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB) http://www.rbr.com/media-news/broadcasters_split_on_the_election.html 2008-09-03T19:23:00-05:00 2008-09-03T19:23:00-05:00 Dave Seyler If electoral preferences are measured in terms of dollars donated, then companies in the business of operating radio and television stations are split right down the middle this year. Just under $4M had been http://www.rbr.com/radio/obama_uses_radio_for_touchy_issue.html 2008-09-03T05:30:00-05:00 2008-09-03T05:30:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The battle between pro-life and pro-choice Americans leaves very little middle ground, and politicians have always seemed content to simply avoid the topic if at all possible. Of course, the vocal groups http://www.rbr.com/radio/free_advice_for_mel_karmazin.html 2008-09-06T19:02:00-05:00 2008-09-06T19:02:00-05:00 Jack Messmer The Zen Master won his difficult and expensive 17-month battle to get the FCC and DOJ to approve the merger of Sirius and XM. That may have been the easy part. Professors at the Wharton School http://www.rbr.com/media-news/internet/comcast_takes_fcc_to_task_and_vice_versa.html 2008-09-05T16:27:00-05:00 2008-09-05T16:27:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Even more than that, it is taking the FCC to court, arguing that the Commission does not have the authority to impose conditions on its http://www.rbr.com/radio/radio_transactions/9786.html 2008-09-05T16:24:00-05:00 2008-09-05T16:24:00-05:00 Dave Seyler $2.3M WBUD-AM Trenton NJ from Millennium Central New Jersey License Holdco LLC, a subsidiary of Millennium Radio Group LLC (James P. Donahoe) to Domestic Church http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/television_transactions/9785.html 2008-09-05T16:24:00-05:00 2008-09-05T16:24:00-05:00 Dave Seyler $205M WTVJ-TV Miami FL (NBC) from NBC Telemundo License Co. (Lynn Calpeter, CFO) to Post-Newsweek Stations Florida Inc. (Alan W. Frank). Cash. Duopoly with WPLG-TV http://www.rbr.com/radio/radio_deals/four_rivers_feeds_weed_to_wolf.html 2008-09-05T16:23:00-05:00 2008-09-05T16:23:00-05:00 Dave Seyler And not only to Wolf, to Jamison too. Two FM stations in the far north of interior California along I-5, KSYC-FM Yreka and KNTK-FM Weed,