http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-10-13T02:18:48-05:00 http://www.rbr.com/radio/new_york_files_suit_against_arbitron.html 2008-10-06T06:25:00-05:00 2008-10-06T06:25:00-05:00 Carl Marcucci Last week was not a good one for Arbitron. At the top of the list: NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a lawsuit in NY County Supreme Court against the ratings giant. The suit accuses Arbitron of http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/nab_warns_congress_of_spectrum_interlopers.html 2008-10-10T20:38:00-05:00 2008-10-10T20:38:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Why not open the cracks between television stations to unlicensed spectrum devices? The National Association of Broadcasters and the Association for http://www.rbr.com/media-news/media_critic_sends_warning_to_conservatives.html 2008-10-09T19:34:00-05:00 2008-10-09T19:34:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Brian C. Anderson has a piece in Investor’s Business Daily warning members of the conservative media to brace themselves. He says http://www.rbr.com/features/intel_briefs/wall_street_seeks_a_bottom.html 2008-10-09T18:26:00-05:00 2008-10-09T18:26:00-05:00 RBR/TVBR As bad as the first half of 2008 was for broadcasting stocks - and stocks in general - things just got worse in Q3. And as the quarter was ending, both Capitol Hill and Wall Street were coming to grips with http://www.rbr.com/media-news/analysts_foresee_further_drops_in_ad_spending.html 2008-10-08T05:37:00-05:00 2008-10-08T05:37:00-05:00 Jack Messmer Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital have both issued updates on what they see ahead for ad-supported industries. Both expect 2009 to be even http://www.rbr.com/media-news/research/product_placements_not_created_equal_bigresearch.html 2008-10-11T04:31:00-05:00 2008-10-11T04:31:00-05:00 Carl Marcucci Marketers and advertisers seeking to make the most out of slashed budgets will find some groups are more influenced by product placements than others. According to BIGresearch’s June 2008 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/more_support_for_class_a_proposal.html 2008-10-10T11:43:00-05:00 2008-10-10T11:43:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The Coalition for Local Television was joined by over 150 Class A television station licensees in signing a petition asking the FCC to go ahead http://www.rbr.com/media-news/wall-street/cbs_makes_an_adjustment.html 2008-10-10T16:45:00-05:00 2008-10-10T16:45:00-05:00 Dave Seyler We’ll let CBS explain in its own words: “The continued economic slowdown in the United States has adversely affected advertising revenues across the Company's businesses, http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/if_a_translator_falls_in_the_wilderness.html 2008-10-10T11:44:00-05:00 2008-10-10T11:44:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Or, if a translator interferes with a station and nobody hears it, is it really interference? Living Way Ministries was initially prohibited from building an http://www.rbr.com/radio/radio_transactions/10569.html 2008-10-10T16:43:00-05:00 2008-10-10T16:43:00-05:00 Dave Seyler N/A WYER-FM CP Carmi IL from Connorsville Apostolic Lighthouse Inc. (Ira Sult III) to Indiana Community Radio Corporation (Jennifer Cox-Hensley). Cash-free transfer from one noncom