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Post-Newsweek’s Q1 down 4%
An increase of $2.8 million in political revenues failed to counter the soft ad market for Post-Newsweek Stations, so Q1 revenues declined 4% to $77.7 ...
Full story AMPTP wont accept pay hikes suggested by SAG
Here we go again: major Hollywood studios said they won't accept pay hikes sought by the Screen Actors Guild in their new contract negotiations. A ...WFXZ Azteca 24 launches on Comcast Cable/Boston
Randy Weigner owner of WFXZ TV-24 Boston announced the full time carriage of TV-24 / Azteca America TV on Comcast Cable. WFXZ will be carried ...NAB enlists radio to push DTV
Reasoning that many of the television viewers most at-risk of being left behind on DTV-Day 2/17/09 are also heavy radio users, the NAB is enlisting ...Nielsen moves sweep for DTV transition
The February 17, 2009 digital transition won’t be just a big deal for television stations, it will also be a big deal for Nielsen, which ...Political windfall not enough for Hearst-Argyle
CEO David Barrett says every Hearst-Argyle Television station booked some political advertising in Q1, with the biggest chunk coming from the New Hampshire presidential primary. ...Auditions go virtual
NBC and FremantleMedia North America announced plans to take auditions for this summer’s edition of “America’s Got Talent” onto the Internet in a deal with ...Public TV gets new news program
WLIW-TV New York announced plans to launch a new international daily news program for public television stations this fall. The program, with a working title ...Equity gets more credit
Equity Media Holdings says in an SEC filing that it has entered into a second amendment of its credit agreement with its lenders, Silver Point ...Tribune signs for LATV multicasts
Bilingual LATV is celebrating expansion into three of the nation’s largest TV markets with a deal to put its programming on Tribune Broadcasting DTV multicast ...
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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 ...