Declines posted by Entravision
Even the Hispanic media sector has not been spared from the soft ad market. Entravision reported that Q4 revenues were down 2% to 62.5...
New Belo announces first dividend
Belo Corporation announced its first dividend payment since the company was split in two earlier this month, with a new newspaper company split off...
Entravision selling billboards
Entravision Communications says it has a deal to sell its Outdoor division to Lamar Advertising Company for 100 million in cash. Entravision's outdoor advertising...
Saga’s year up, quarter down
Both radio and television were down a bit in Q4 at Saga Communications, with combined revenues down 1.9% to 37.5 million due to the...
RTNDF awards gathering in the offing
The Radio-Television News Directors Foundation is set to hand out awards. CNN's John Roberts will emcee the 3/17/08 event at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in...
Billion dollar bye-bye
It's right there in the headline of the New York Times OpEd page: "I'm Not Running for President, but..." If anybody here at RBR...
Univision Music Group sold to Universal
Universal Music Group is the winning bidder to acquire Univision Music Group, which has been for sale since Univision Communications was taken private. The...
Nielsen reorganizes business media operations
Two of what had been six groups have been combined at Nielsen Business Media, with industry veteran Gerry Byrne joining the company as Sr....
Mixed quarter for Washington Post Co.
Education remained the growth driver in Q4, with revenues up 21%, while overall revenues gained 8% to 1.13 billion. However, earnings per share fell...
LIN exceeds expectations
Q4 was a strong quarter for LIN Television. Although revenues were down 15% to 108.6 million, that was due to the lack of political,...
A bring-your-own-ballot election
Corporate proxy contests aren't quite like voting in a primary or general election. Shareholders at Media General are receiving ballots for the April 24th...
SBS – Mega TV launches in PR-radio invited!
Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) hosted a party last night to celebrate the launch of Mega TV over DirecTV Channel 169 in Puerto Rico (last...
Election coverage finding a level?
Journalists expended 44% of available time and space on the 2008 campaign during the week of 2/18/08-2/24/08
Time to think differently
In your very good article on saving radio you suggest a lot of "changing thinking ideas." Some of our thinking is so habitual that...
Arbitron revises post-Apollo outlook
A day after pulling the plug on Project Apollo (2/26/08 RBR #39), Arbitron issued revised guidance to investors. The company said it still expects...