http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-05-15T23:21:29-04:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/wall-street/4223.html 2008-01-03T08:20:00-05:00 2008-01-03T08:20:00-05:00 Jack Messmer 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 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/wall-street/4220.html 2008-01-03T08:17:00-05:00 2008-01-03T08:17:00-05:00 Jack Messmer 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 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/wall-street/4218.html 2008-01-03T08:16:00-05:00 2008-01-03T08:16:00-05:00 Jack Messmer 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 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/wall-street/4216.html 2008-01-03T08:14:00-05:00 2008-01-03T08:14:00-05:00 Jack Messmer 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 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/wall-street/4215.html 2008-01-03T08:13:00-05:00 2008-01-03T08:13:00-05:00 Jack Messmer 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, http://www.rbr.com/media-news/wall-street/4190.html 2007-09-28T07:19:00-04:00 2007-09-28T07:19:00-04:00 Jim Carnegie Moody's Investors Service upgraded Block Communications' corporate family rating to Ba3 from B1 and revised its outlook to stable. In addition, Moody's upgraded Block's 150 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/wall-street/4158.html 2007-09-27T07:19:00-04:00 2007-09-27T07:19:00-04:00 Jim Carnegie Act III of the 2007 revenue results show is getting set to kick off. Viacom Inc. has set its conference call for Friday, 11/2/07 to http://www.rbr.com/media-news/wall-street/4101.html 2007-09-25T07:19:00-04:00 2007-09-25T07:19:00-04:00 Jim Carnegie With his gloomy comments on the overall radio industry (see Radio News) CL King analyst Jim Boyle also downgraded two radio stocks, sending them skidding http://www.rbr.com/media-news/wall-street/4091.html 2007-09-24T14:35:00-04:00 2007-09-24T14:35:00-04:00 Jim Carnegie Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and GS Capital Partners VI fund say they are walking away from their eight billion bucks deal to take Harman International private. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/wall-street/4064.html 2007-09-24T07:35:00-04:00 2007-09-24T07:35:00-04:00 Jim Carnegie Moody's Investors Service affirmed the Ba3 corporate family rating and B2 senior subordinated notes rating of Salem Communications Holding Corporation. However, the outlook for the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/wall-street/4024.html 2007-08-08T13:36:00-04:00 2007-08-08T13:36:00-04:00 Cathy Carnegie Spanish Broadcasting System disappointed investors with revenues down 2% overall to 47.8 million. Radio was down 5% to 45.3 million, with gains in New York http://www.rbr.com/media-news/wall-street/4023.html 2007-08-08T13:35:00-04:00 2007-08-08T13:35:00-04:00 Cathy Carnegie Regent Communications beat Wall Street expectations with revenues up 25.3% overall to 26.4 million bucks, including the big cluster in Buffalo acquired from CBS, and http://www.rbr.com/media-news/wall-street/3985.html 2007-08-06T12:20:00-04:00 2007-08-06T12:20:00-04:00 Cathy Carnegie TV revenues were down only 1% in Q2 for The Washington Post Company, with the Post-Newsweek station group bringing in 87.9 million bucks, despite a http://www.rbr.com/media-news/wall-street/3978.html 2007-09-21T19:29:00-04:00 2007-09-21T19:29:00-04:00 Jim Carnegie Radio/Entertainment revenues gained 0.9%, with credit for that given to Tribune Entertainment, but otherwise August was a down month for Tribune Company. Television revenues were http://www.rbr.com/media-news/wall-street/3963.html 2007-09-20T19:29:00-04:00 2007-09-20T19:29:00-04:00 Jim Carnegie That's right, up. Broadcast revenues increased 0.1% in August at Media General to 29.5 million, despite the absence of 2.5 million in political revenues a