Vivvo CMS 4.0 http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.rbr.com/files.php?file=rss_logo1_757997737.jpg http://www.rbr.com/ http://www.rbr.com/media-news/more_foolish_analysis_on_xm_sirius.html Media News Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:42:00 -0500 Motley Fool has been pushing the XM/Sirius merger for months now, and although many see the imminent possibility of FCC approval in the wake of http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/fcc_diversity_committee_wants_csi_of_ppm.html WASHINGTON BEAT Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:35:00 -0500 One of the FCC’s advisory committees has taken aim at Arbitron. The issue is Arbitron’s stranglehold on the radio ratings business, its introduction of PPM http://www.rbr.com/radio/clear_channel_buyout_heading_into_the_homestretch.html Radio News Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:32:00 -0500 It’s only taken 20 months, but the deal to take Clear Channel Communications private (more or less) should close the last day of this month. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/2008_political_headed_for_the_record_books.html Media News Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:04:00 -0500 In 2004, all presidential candidates spent about $500M during the campaign. Much has already been spent during a hotly contested Democratic primary, and the winner http://www.rbr.com/radio/clear_channel_one_tender_a_go_one_not.html Radio News Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:32:00 -0500 After repeatedly extending tender offers to buy back two bond issues simultaneous with closing its stock buyout, Clear Channel has now dropped one of the bond tenders. It has extended until July 30th http://www.rbr.com/media-news/advertising/media_monitors_anheuser-busch.html ADVERTISING Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:18:00 -0500 We asked Media Monitors to do a spot load analysis of Anheuser-Busch, after the hard news yesterday that the company is virtually scrapping its radio spend for the second half of this year http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/hollywood_begins_virtual_lockout.html TV/Cable News Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:40:00 -0500 The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the bargaining organization for the studios, calls it a “de facto strike,” but a more accurate description is a virtual lockout http://www.rbr.com/media-news/advertising/anheuser-busch_radio_advertising.html ADVERTISING Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:45:00 -0500 One of the biggest users of radio advertising, Anheuser-Busch, is significantly cutting spend in the medium for the second half of this year. Some thought http://www.rbr.com/media-news/advertising/8464.html ADVERTISING Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:09:00 -0500 The Chicago Defender reports at least two top advertisers in General Motors and Procter & Gamble have pulled ads from BET's “Rap City” http://www.rbr.com/radio/hogan_announces_tweaks_to_lim.html Radio News Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:11:00 -0500 Top management at Clear Channel Communications refuses to call “Less is More” a failure. Rather, Clear Channel Radio CEO John Hogan yesterday informed local managers