“Rock Band” performs for Viacom

We’re referring to the hit video game, which helped drive 16% revenue growth for Viacom’s Media Networks unit in Q1, along with 8% ad...

XM/Sirius road to profitability?

Stock analyst Stan Muse expects that it’ll take a year for the merged entity of XM and Sirius to start turning a profit. How...

Watchdog mobilizing to stop Murdoch

StopBigMedia.com is attempting to block the acquisition of Sam Zell’s Tribune’s Newsday by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation with yet another click and send campaign,...

Key House Democrats address XM/Sirius

OK, let’s see if we have this straight – this is an acceptable merger, but we have to have special provisions in place to prevent monopolistic behavior. We say that if it quacks like a monopoly and waddles like a monopoly, it’s a monopoly.

Journal sets buyback

The board of directors at Journal Communications has given management the go ahead to buy back up to five million additional shares of the...

Making census of it all

The US Census Bureau has some new racial numbers out, so let’s take a look. The total US population is pegged at 301.6M. Non-Hispanic...

Bidding intensifies for Newsday

Long Island Newsday quotes sources as saying Cablevision is about to make a 650 million bucks bid for the newspaper, topping by 70 million...

Even the formerly red-hot Hispanic market is soft

Spanish radio and TV specialist Entravision reported that Q1 revenues were down 2% to $55.7 million, with consolidated EBITDA down 13% to $15 million....

The evolution of brand integration in Spanish language television

Continued innovation in media, interactive, planning, creativity and every aspect of Hispanic marketing, is what corporate marketers depend on to build brand equity and what Hispanic agencies deliver.

Outside groups spending on campaign

It’s not as if the actual candidates have been lacking for funds thus far. But outside groups that wish to have an influence on the course of the nation are spending their money on to push issues, support some candidates and attack others.

Pennsylvania returns focus to elections

The Project for Excellence in Journalism found the focus of the journalistic media back on the 2008 political campaign during for week of 4/21/08-4/27/08,...

Up quarter for Fisher, but shareholder discontent

Q1 revenues were up 10% to $37.7 million at Fisher Communications. And while a good bit of that was due to buying two more...

Split time for Time Warner

Time Warner Cable already has its own stock and now Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes says the whole cable company is going to be...

Tough quarter for McGraw-Hill

Television revenues were flat in Q1, with political ad sales counterbalancing the soft market for general advertising at McGraw-Hill. In fact, the Information &...

Life goes on at Clear Channel

With no resolution in sight for its legal battling with six big banks over financing for its going private buyout, Clear Channel Communications has...