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Dow Jones settles lawsuits
Dow Jones & Company says in an SEC filing that it has come to terms with shareholders who had sued to block the company's sale ...
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A proposal to give current non-voting Class A shares the same voting rights as Class B shares at News Corporation found little support at Friday's ...Moody's downgrades Emmis
Citing "continued weak operating performance," Moody's Investors Service has lowered its ratings on Emmis Communications debt. Moody's does, however, say the company's large market radio ...Media General battling economic headwinds
Media General isn't saying much about Q4 TV pacings, except that revenues will not match 2006, which included 34 million of political spending. However, CEO ...Private equity slips out of Harman deal
Two private equity firms, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Company (KKR) and GS Capital Partners (an affiliate of Goldman Sachs), have been let out of their ...New York Times reports 2007 Q3 results
The New York Times Company announced Q3 revenues increased 2% to 754.4 million from 739.6 million. Ad revenues decreased 0.1%; circulation revenues increased 3.9%; and ...It's the advertising environment, stupid
Well, there were also tough comps during a political off-year which led to red-ink results at multimedia Journal Communications. Chairman/CEO Steve Smith explained, "The weak ...Lack of political impacted Meredith
With only one million of political revenues, vs. nine million a year ago, fiscal Q1 (July-September) broadcasting revenues were down 7.3% at Meredith Corporation to ...Scripps beats expectations
TV revenues fell 10.3% in Q3 at Scripps to 73.3 million, but that was better than expected, given the lack of political revenues. Local was ...Belo running on all cylinders
Belo Corporation's Q3 results exceeded Wall Street expectations for both its newspaper and television operations. TV revenues rose 1.8% to 182.4 million, despite a sharp ...XM still buying red ink by the barrel
The cash burn continues for XM Satellite Radio, so the company assured Wall Street in its quarterly financial report that it still has access to ...Another shareholder pressuring Emmis
This time it is Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Advisers LLC calling for the creation of a special committee of independent directors to work with CEO ...Lincoln Financial earnings decline
Lincoln Financial Group reported that Q3 net earnings declined 9% to 329.6 million, or 1.21 per share. Lincoln Financial Media saw revenues decline 0.2% to ...Divide and prosper
There's still time to get in on a 13% increase in dividend payouts at Walt Disney Co. You have until 12/7/07 to become a shareholder ...Cheaper stocks mean bigger dividends
Media stocks have gotten beaten up so much this year that you'd think some speculators would start buying them just for the dividend yields. After ...
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Jose Lopez-Varela
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14 May, 2008 05:39:35
Halim,
Nice job, I commend you on the points you make in your post. The Acculturation process is very complex and truly require an expertise to ...
mark walker
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07 May, 2008 08:25:00
Paul- you are awesome! I am so glad to see you again!
Ray Somich
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05 May, 2008 07:11:27
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 ...
Jack Messmer
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04 May, 2008 10:25:01
Thanks for your comment.
Does anyone else want to weigh in supporting this move? Do the sweeps really matter that much these days?
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Tim Keating
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02 May, 2008 07:44:28
Am I the only one bothered by Nielsen's move from February 2009 Sweep to March 2009?
The announcement from Nielsen came as a surprise. ...