Scripps ready to split
Splitting The E.W. Scripps Company in two won approval Friday at the company’s annual shareholders meeting. The outcome was never in doubt, since only...
On multicasting diluting TV audiences
I would like to respond to the recent TVBR observation regarding broadcasters cannibalizing their own audience by diluting (multicasting) on their station’s
XM/Sirius rendevous approaching?
Who knows? Sam Brownback (R-KS) has reacted to allegations that XM and Sirius may have misrepresented the facts in testimony supporting their merger and...
Radio: Local direct selling is changing
Taddeo to shops - Drop Dead: Seems Jack Taddeo, among the latest to weigh in on the posting issue, is suggesting operators in the...
Shakeup at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
Former ABC Entertainment President Susan Lyne has stepped down as President and CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. The company has promoted Wenda Harris...
Response to Rex Tackett on posting
OH Rex (6/11/08 RBR #114), how right you are!!! I've been complaining to the RAB for years that they are on the WRONG side of several major issues and here's another one. They've needed to stop pushing NTR and start teaching basic radio sales for years, but haven't.
ESPN chief pushing multiple platforms
Television is still the big growth driver, but ESPN President George Bodenheimer told the Deutsche Bank 2008 Media and Telecommunications Conference that his company...
It’s ugly out there”…everywhere
Outdoor advertising had been holding up better than some of its competitors, but outdoor is now also being hit by the economic downturn. Wachovia...
More XM fun
The Consumer Coalition for Competition in Satellite Radio Watchdog (C3SR), which observers say have more in common with business interests than consumers, has filed...
Democratic finale boosts campaign to 50%
The Project for Excellence in Journalism coverage chart for the week of 6/2/08-6/8/08 was as you would expect. The final battle between Barack Obama...
Posting pushback
Many executives feel the way this executive does as he writes in reaction to RBR’s report, RAB Board passes posting resolution; Goldstein comments (5/29/08 RBR #105).
Debating PPM accreditation
We wanted to get to the bottom of the PPM issue and come up with some solutions for the radio industry. Should PPM be accredited before it goes into the market and why?
Don't stop me I'm on a roll here
In a “Publisher’s Perspective - Implications of Clear Channel’s new deal,” on May 25 we wrote: When this is all done I hope that...
Gannett taking write-down
Gannett announced plans to take non-cash charges this quarter of $2.5-3 billion on a pre-tax basis for “impairment of goodwill, other intangibles and certain...
Performance Tax questioned
While attending the Academy of Country Music Awards program in Las Vegas last month, I noticed that around half of the performers who accepted their awards were very grateful to "radio" for their good fortune and obvious exposure. How many times do you hear this at awards shows?