Phishing season in progress, don’t get caught

Here’s your fair warning as you get set to pay your FY 2008 regulatory fees. According to Mitchell Lazarus at Fletcher Heald & Hildreth,...

Readers respond

(see below) Rick Seibert asked for advice from other broadcasters on how to deal with his political equal time dilemma. RBR readers have come through. Assuming your PD's show constitutes

Growing pains at Sirius XM?

The Wall Street Journal says that the newly merged satellite audio service Sirius XM may be in serious trouble if it doesn’t come up...

Veoh copyright case tossed

A federal judge in California has dismissed a copyright lawsuit by an adult video company against the video-sharing service Veoh Networks, ruling that Veoh...

Broadcaster in a fix

I'm in the middle of an equal time dilemma and wondering if any one has any ideas. My program director is currently the president of the local school board. He is running for reelection

GfK won’t pursue TNS

GfK says it has not been able to find financing on satisfactory terms to make a buyout bid for TNS, so it is walking...

Gas taking the fire out of back to school

The high price of gasoline is coming right out of household back-to-school budgets, according to a report from online research outfit Zoomerang. Parents and...

When the Traffic Audience Leaves

This is going to be painful. Watch as the only recurring element in radio programming that the audience can immediately respond to moves to cell phones. Traffic reports are a radio industry

Five still chasing the Cubs

Tribune Company CEO Sam Zell confirmed that five bidders remain in the running for the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field and he hopes to have a deal by the end of the year. Zell didn’t identify any of the bidders

Nasdaq approves Radio One move

Radio One says it has gotten approval from the Nasdaq Stock market to move its lightly traded Class A stock from the Nasdaq Global...

July another downer for the NY Times Co.

Ad revenues dropped 17.9% in July to $119.9 million for the News Media group at the New York Times Company, which includes the newspapers,...

Taking issue with research

I totally agree with Bob Harper about perceptual research being the most important research for programming a radio station, but I could not disagree...

Election resurfaces immediately

The Georgia/Russia conflict briefly knocked Campaign 2008 off the top of the Project for Excellence in Journalism media coverage chart, but it was right...

Payola And Plugola (FCC Fines Made Easy!)

Can You Be On The Take? Sure, But ... Let's Review In Case You Forgot. So, the record promoter comes by the station and offers you two box seats

Employees to buzz from Bee

Just how bad will the ad fall-off for newspapers be? McClatchy’s Sacramento Bee can’t even predict that, so the newspaper isn’t even saying how...