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Moody's upgrades Block
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 ...
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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 ...Downgrades send two radio stocks lower
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 ...Harman buyout blows up
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. ...Moody's turns negative on Salem
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 ...SBS underperforms
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 ...Regent outperforms
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 ...Post-Newsweek revenues down only slightly
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 ...Revenues down 5.2% in August for Tribune
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 ...TV revenues up at Media General
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 ...Radio a bright spot at Journal
Radio revenues were flat - actually up 1.8% on a same station basis - but TV plunged 13.7% and newspaper revenues from continuing operations fell ...Cumulus sued over buyout
A class action law firm, Holzer Holzer & Fistel, announced that it has filed suit on behalf of Cumulus Media shareholders against the company, Merrill ...TV revenues down 1% for Gannett
August broadcasting revenues declined 1% at Gannett to 59.7 million. Local gained 2.9% and national fell 9.7%. And, of course, political was off sharply. That ...ISS backs Clear Channel buyout
With the vote set for next Tuesday, Institutional Shareholders Service is advising clients to vote in favor of the buyout of Clear Channel Communications at ...Big future seen for Dow Jones assets
At yesterday's, 09/18/07, Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVI Conference in New York, News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch said people thought he was an idiot for starting Fox ...
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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 ...