Posting a one-way street

Have you seen details anywhere in this dialogue as to what will happen when Radio stations OVERDELIVER? Of course not. This is just one...

Battle for the Senate shaping up

The Republican Party figured to have a tough time defending its share of the Senate under any circumstances. Due to the luck of the...

Fisher may divest last real estate holdings

Fisher Communications previously sold most of its real estate holdings (not to mention its flour mills) as it sought to focus on its radio,...

Campaign in the neck?

Are we the only ones getting a little tired of Campaign 2008? The news media sure isn't, particularly the folks over there at the...

Posting & PPM – Another P.O.V.

Another point of view,Radio: Doing exactly the right thing, precisely the wrong wayTwo examples of radio getting in its own way, again.Posting. The topic...

Print hitching its fortunes to the web

Radio isn’t the only medium to focus on the year 2020. Magazines are also hoping that’s the year they start earning serious money on...

Consumers group demands hearing on XM/Sirius

It would seem that the “highly confidential document” may fall short of a smoking gun with fingerprints, but it obviously contains highly sensitive information and seems to have been discovered on the scene of the alleged crime.

Taking stock at Cumulus

With its going-private transaction called off, Cumulus Media’s board of directors has now approved awards of restricted common stock as an incentive to key...

Buddy, can you spare $120 million?

As it waits…and waits…and waits for the FCC to act on its application to merge with Sirius, XM Satellite Radio has had to come...

BCFM is gone; Long live MFM

As new media ventures become a bigger part of the businesses of broadcast and cable companies, the Broadcast Cable Financial Management Association (BCFM) is...

Radio’s Mojo

This has been bothering me for quite some time: When did Radio People become so wimpy and insecure? Who did we leave in charge of our Mojo, and where did he hide it?

CBS interest in CNET began over a year ago

An SEC filing by CBS Corporation reveals that first contact between CBS officials and CNET officials about “potential strategic business opportunities” was in April...

FCC’s personal main studio non-history

According to Jerald N. Fritz, the citizens of the United States might have a little more money in their pockets if the FCC had...

Weather makes a dent in campaign coverage

Technically, we suppose, the earthquake which rocked China cannot be considered a weather event, but it combined with the Myanmar cyclone and numerous lesser...

English-promoting group fears for Rush

A lobbying group that has been trying to make English the official US language since 1986 thinks that the FCC’s initiative to promote localism...