Credit stress not as bad as a few years ago

For all the hand-wringing on Wall Street and in Washington about tight credit, Moody’s Investors Service says the credit quality of North America’s non-financial...

Tribune Broadcasting staffers, meet your new boss

This classic photo of Randy Michaels was taken during the Jacor era, when Randy sought to enliven an NAB Radio Show panel discussion by...

Downgrade for Radio One

Moody's Investors Service said it had downgraded Radio One's Corporate Family Rating to B1 from Ba3 and its 800 million bucks secured credit facility...

The Zell era begins at Tribune

The electronic transfer of 4.2 billion bucks borrowed from a team of banks took place yesterday and Tribune Company became a private company, owned...

So which markets are in the top 20

Here, courtesy of Nielsen Media Research, via the Associated Press, are the Top 20 DMAs, where -- at least for the time being --...

Big November drop for Journal

Without much political advertising this year, TV revenues dropped 26.3% in November at Journal Broadcast Group to 11.46 million. The company said a 5.13...

FitzSimons a short-timer; Michaels on deck

Tribune Company CEO Dennis FitzSimons announced that he will exit the end of this month as the company goes private. There is no official...

FCC approves top-20 cross-ownership

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin got his 3-2 party-line vote to eliminated the cross-ownership ban in the top 20 Nielsen DMAs. A newspaper owner will...

Talkers back to the news megaphone

The biggest news story during the week of 12/2/07-12/7/07, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, was the 2008 campaign with a 19%...

Another non-media investment for Sinclair

Sinclair Broadcast Group has made another investment in real estate, putting 3.1 million into two apartment complexes. Sinclair now has a 9.75% stake in...

Moody’s cuts Tribune ratings

Moody’s Investors Service has cut its debt ratings for Tribune Company, in light of the expected closing of a buyout of public shareholders by...

Clear Channel begins cash tender for bonds

While Wall Street traders continue to worry about the private equity buyout of Clear Channel going to closing, the company and its buyers to...

Campaign settling into the top slot

With the first serious tallies of the 2008 campaign looming large on the horizon, it's going to take a major cataclysm to oust campaign...

Maze assesses the catastrophe

FCC commissioner Michael Copps says "…help overcome the "catastrophic "results of radio consolidation…"To define "catastrophic" I believe we have to go back to January...

RBR-TVBR expands; Kaufman on board

Moving faster every day in the electronic business, the skills of key executives become more precise and focused. RBR-TVBR has been searching for the...