ISS backs Clear Channel buyout
With the vote set for next Tuesday, Institutional Shareholders Service is advising clients to vote in favor of the buyout of Clear Channel Communications...
WSJ to launch monthly magazine
It sounds like "Pursuits" will challenge the "Robb Report" in the luxury lifestyles genre, so we're disappointed it won't be called the "Rupert Report."...
CEOs duck credit for confidence plunge
The August confidence survey of corner office occupants by Chief Executive Magazine registered the biggest one-month drop since they began taking the survey back...
Regent settles with shareholders
Regent Communications has come to terms with Riley Investment Management Capital and SMH Capital, the major shareholders who had been pressing for a special...
Retail sales up .3% in August
Retail sales posted a decent gain in August, helped by the biggest jump in auto sales in more than a year. The Commerce Department...
Talkers, newsers agree on top three stories
The agreed on four out of the top five, as well, but they did not agree on what was the top story, according to...
What if they held a debate and nobody came?
Are we getting to the point where there will be a need for The Debate Channel? It seems the sun never sets on a...
Cablevision buyout vote next month
Cablevision has set a shareholder vote for October 24th on the pending offer from the Dolan family to buy out all other shareholders for...
Time for kiddy companies to use adult formats
Mattel and Burger King are no strangers to the preteen market and no doubt have a great deal of experience marketing their wares to...
Still money to be made on Cumulus stock
Depending on when the buyout deal goes to closing, Bear Stearns analyst Victor Miller is telling clients that they can make an annualized return...
Reason that radio and other media is in decline
The real reason that radio and other media is in decline is that each medium is too focused on selling its own attributes, and...
US ad spend dropped 0.3% in first half of 2007
Total ad expenditures in the first half of 2007 slipped by 0.3% to 72.59 billion versus the same period in 2006, according to TNS...
News smorgasbord
There was a little bit of something for everyone during the week of 9/2/07-9/7/07, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism's latest coverage...
DMA's latest catalog marketing study
The Direct Marketing Association's Multichannel Marketing in the Catalog Industry report reveals nearly 70% of respondents reported increased multichannel sales over the prior year,...
Sillerman has another hit on his hands
Robert F.X. Sillerman has been out of the radio business for some time now, but he continues to have success in other areas. Ticket...