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Radio One reports losses while defending one’s gain
Urban specialists Radio One earned $72.5M in Q1 2008, a 2% drop from Q1 2007 levels, but said it outperformed its markets and actually increased ...Vic Miller leaving Bear Stearns
Victor Miller analysts at Bear Stearns and 21 years covering the broadcasting business is leaving Wall Street. Miller notified RBR-TVBR late last night with an ...Cox is a victim of its environment
Bob Neil was not too upset about the performance of Cox Radio in the first quarter of 2008 – he said nobody likes looking at ...Disney plows through economic slowdown
The Media Networks segment of Disney, including ABC Television, ESPN, Disney Channel, Radio Disney and such, was the worst performer for fiscal Q2 (January-March), and ...Up quarter for Cumulus
Cumulus Media reported after the market close Monday that pro forma Q1 cash revenues rose 2% to $69.7 million and station operating income (SOI) gained ...Journal sets buyback
The board of directors at Journal Communications has given management the go ahead to buy back up to five million additional shares of the company’s ...Tough quarter for McGraw-Hill
Television revenues were flat in Q1, with political ad sales counterbalancing the soft market for general advertising at McGraw-Hill. In fact, the Information & Media ...XM and Sirius delay shareholder meetings
With their long-pending merger still awaiting FCC approval, XM and Sirius Satellite Radio have put off its 2008 annual shareholders meeting. The XM meeting had ...Life goes on at Clear Channel
With no resolution in sight for its legal battling with six big banks over financing for its going private buyout, Clear Channel Communications has scheduled ...Fisher cuts equity incentive share authorization
Noting objections from some major shareholders, Fisher Communications announced that it has reduced the number of shares authorized under its 2008 Equity Incentive Plan. The ...MG's boardroom is a battlefield
Television/newspaper company Media General, headed by Stewart Bryan, has its own preferred candidates to sit on the corporate board....New investor for Equity Media Holdings
Equity Media Holdings has not yet announced the outcome of its April 18th deadline to come to terms with its lenders. However, Prentice Capital Management ...Triple Crown faces delisting
Triple Crown Media is the company spun off from Gray Television that owns the former Gray newspaper properties. Triple Crown says it has received a ...Happy days return for Google
Google topped Wall Street expectations as it reported Q1 earnings, with revenues up 42% to 5.19 billion bucks and net income rose 30% to 1.55 ...Rough quarter for Media General
Television and newspaper are two of the more challenged sectors of the United States economy these days, and Media General is in both of them. ...Log in
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As always, John Gorman tells it like it is, whether we want to hear it or not. How sadly ironic that radio's success has been ...
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As a 2-book Condensed Market that doesn't even get trends from Arbitron, one can foresee some real struggles with some particularly aggressive agencies. Since ...

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