WALL STREET
Give ’em credit
Equity Media Holdings announced that it had entered into a new credit facility with Silver Point Finance LLC and Wells Fargo Foothill Inc. If you ...
Full story Gains at Hearst-Argyle can't compensate for odd year
No elections to speak of in 2007? That knocked Hearst-Argyle, owner of 26 television stations and a pair of radio stations, for a 30.9M loop. ...CBS: Dividend is no joke
A 25 cent-per-share dividend is headed to common stockholders of CBS Corporation, says its Board of Directors. And there is still time to hop aboard ...Black and red at Entercom
In Q4 2007, radio group Entercom was able to increase net revenues 2% to $120.6M and increase station operating 6% to $52.1M. On a same ...Looking ahead at Radio One
Radio One honcho Alfred Liggins thinks his company has a 5M head start for 2008. That's because that's how much cash the company bled in ...Radio One thinks it's found the bottom
Urban radio specialist Radio One was in markets suffering an aggregate 5% loss in revenue during Q4 2007, and that's what it lost. But President/CEO ...Hearst-Argyle hops on the schedule
It's been a relatively quiet week for broadcasting on the quarterly conference call front, with just three companies -- Radio One, Fisher and Entercom -- ...Westwood shareholders approve CBS deal
Not that the outcome was ever in doubt, but shareholders of Westwood One have formally approved a new long-term arrangement with CBS Radio running through ...Journal boosts dividend
Wall Street may not like media stocks, but that isn’t stopping companies from rewarding their patient shareholders by increasing dividends. Journal Communications yesterday announced that ...Split Belo shares mixed in first day of trading
Belo Corporation, the TV company, and A.H. Belo, the newspaper company, began post-split trading today on the NYSE. Both were down for a while, but ...Ion ends public trading
CIG Media (Citadel Investment Group) long ago acquired almost all of the common stock of Ion Media Networks, but trading in a few shares has ...Split Belo assigned to two indices
Standard & Poor’s announced changes to two of its market indices to deal with the split of Belo Corporation into two separate publicly traded companies. ...Disney earnings down, but beats the Street
Like other big media company CEOs, Disney’s Bob Iger told analysts in his quarterly conference call that the WGA strike has had no significant impact ...Lincoln Financial posts down quarter
Lincoln Financial Group reported that Q4 net income was 113 million, or 42 cents per share, down from 381 million and EPS of 1.36 a ...Meredith boosts dividend
The board of directors at Meredith Corporation has approved a 16% increase in the company’s dividend. The quarterly dividend payout will increase by three cents ...
Log in
BY THE NUMBERS
POPULAR
- SBS launches “La Raza 106.3” in Miami
- Canadian radio sales up 8.8%
- More on overnight staffing
- WNEW returns to its roots
- Fred Jacobs assesses Jim Boyle's P1 advice to radio
mark walker
on
07 May, 2008 08:25:00
Paul- you are awesome! I am so glad to see you again!
Ray Somich
on
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
on
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?
Jack Messmer
Executive Editor
RBR/TVBR
Tim Keating
on
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. ...
Charlie Ferguson
on
02 May, 2008 05:40:09
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 ...