http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-07-06T21:35:27-05:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/more_foolish_analysis_on_xm_sirius.html 2008-07-06T06:42:00-05:00 2008-07-06T06:42:00-05:00 Dave Seyler 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 2008-07-06T06:35:00-05:00 2008-07-06T06:35:00-05:00 Dave Seyler 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 2008-07-03T11:32:00-05:00 2008-07-03T11:32:00-05:00 Jack Messmer 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 2008-07-02T13:04:00-05:00 2008-07-02T13:04:00-05:00 Dave Seyler 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 2008-07-02T08:32:00-05:00 2008-07-02T08:32:00-05:00 Jack Messmer 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 2008-06-30T20:18:00-05:00 2008-06-30T20:18:00-05:00 Carl Marcucci 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 2008-07-01T09:40:00-05:00 2008-07-01T09:40:00-05:00 Jack Messmer 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 2008-06-30T06:45:00-05:00 2008-06-30T06:45:00-05:00 Carl Marcucci 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 2008-07-02T05:09:00-05:00 2008-07-02T05:09:00-05:00 Carl Marcucci 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 2008-07-02T17:11:00-05:00 2008-07-02T17:11:00-05:00 Jack Messmer 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