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Bear Stearns analyst Vic Miller has been studying the Belo split into two companies. At the current share price, he figures the newspaper company stock ...
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Radio stocks continue to take a beating on Wall Street. Both Beasley and Salem last week fell into penny stock territory, joining quite a few ...Ion’s public days drawing to a close
Following recent FCC approval, Citadel Investment Group has closed on Bud Paxson’s control stake in Ion Media Networks. CEO Brandon Burgess was elected Chairman Friday ...Private equity funds raised record bucks in 2007
How’s that, you ask? Didn’t the credit markets collapse at mid-year and derail the private equity industry? Welcome to the new era of vulture private ...Disgruntled investor throws in the towel
Remember Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Advisers LLC, one of the big shareholders pressing Emmis to do a buyout deal to cash out public shareholders? (10/26/07 ...Radio stocks could fall 15-30% this year
That’s the warning to investors from analyst Lee Westerfield at BMO Capital Markets. After seeing the RAB report that November radio ad revenues were down ...Waiting for the green light
Bear Stearns analyst Victor Miller tells clients in a note that the trains are still running toward a closing for the private equity buyout of ...News Corp's Dow Jones buy clears antitrust review
News Corporation's pending acquisition of Dow Jones & Company has easily cleared antitrust review by the Federal Trade Commission, winning early termination of the legal ...Tribune slips in July
Consolidated revenue for in-play multimedia icon Tribune Company for the month of July were 467M, representing a 5.9% drop from the July 2006 total of ...Eye on ION
ION Media Networks says that its recapitalization and privatization is essentially completed. Citadel Investment Corp. and NBC Universal were instrumental in this feat, and ION ...Bond holders give consent to CCU
No surprise here. Clear Channel Communications reports that the overwhelming majority of its bondholders tendered their bonds to be bought back as the company goes ...Ion buyout gets FCC nod
The final pieces are falling into place for Citadel Investment Group to complete its buyout of the shareholders of Ion Media Networks and take the ...Introducing the TVBR Television Index
For the past 10 years our sister publication, Radio Business Report, has calculated and published a Radio Index showing the relative movement of the group ...CommScope closes Andrew acquisition
As 2007 neared its close, CommScope Inc. closed on its 2.65 billion bucks acquisition of electronics equipment maker Andrew Corporation (6/28/07 RBR #126). Former Andrew ...Changes to the RBR Radio Index
As the New Year begins, we are making some changes to the 10-year-old Radio Index that has been tallied daily by RBR. First of all, ...
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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. ...
Charlie Ferguson
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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 ...