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Wednesday Morning February 22nd, 2012, Volume 29, Issue 37
Broadcaster Focus
Internet video fueling renewed interest in over-the-air television
As more and more quality video content becomes available online, some consumers are finding that it can be combined with an old-fashioned television antenna to receive local broadcast programming off-air and kiss big cable bills good-bye. According to the Wall Street Journal, rabbit ears are starting to hop off the shelves. And it calls into question how many TV broadcasters will be willing to hop off the airwaves.

RBR-TVBR observation: Communications legislation is usually based on a snapshot of a fluid process that includes complex market and technical facets. Against that backdrop, Congress just voted to authorize incentive TV spectrum auctions. But how they will actually play out is still a mystery. Stay tuned! More...

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Q4 radio revenues up 2% for Clear Channel
CC Media Holdings, the parent company of Clear Channel Communications, reported that Q4 revenues increased 1% to $1.65 billion. The biggest unit, Clear Channel Media & Entertainment (the former CC Radio) grew revenues 2% to $790.8 million. More...

Current quarter pacing up for Clear Channel
Now that we know the results for Q4, the more immediate question for Clear Channel Communications is how are pacings for Q1? It's the old "What have you done for me lately?" question from Wall Street. There is good news on that front.

RBR-TVBR observation: Thus far having the custom music channels on iHeartRadio commercial free doesn't seem to have slowed subscriber growth for Pandora, where users have to listen to spots to receive the non-subscription service. But... More...

Price revealed for Mobile FM
We knew that Judith Dittman was selling iconic Hit FM WABB-FM Mobile AL to noncommercial religious broadcaster Educational Media Foundation, which is taking one more step toward nationwide ubiquity with the acquisition. And now we know how much EMF is planning to pay for the station. More...

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Television News

Comcast in deals with stars to launch new cable networks
Comcast, which struck a deal with the FCC to add more minority-owned channels when it bought NBCUniversal, announced deals to add two African-American and two Hispanic networks to its cable systems. The new networks were proposed by Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Robert Rodriguez, and Constantino "Said" Schwarz.

RBR-TVBR observation: Launching with Comcast, the biggest MSO of all, obviously gives a big leg up to a new network, as evidenced by the success of TV One. But delivery to millions of TV households is just the beginning. More...

More on YouTube's recruitment for new channels
Google's YouTube is enlisting more help from Hollywood, aiming to create 25 hours of programming per day. The site is spreading its wealth among producers, directors, and other filmmakers, using the $100 million it committed last fall. The TV producers include "Fast Five" director Justin Lin, who directs episodes of "Community," ''CSI" creator Anthony Zuiker and Nancy Tellem, the former president of CBS entertainment. More...

Google may enter pay TV marketplace soon
More evidence that Google may be entering the pay TV market, This, after Google's FCC application in December for a satellite receiving station license fueled speculation that it may be doing that to bundle Internet and TV services in Kansas City, MO. Sanford C. Bernstein analysts Internet Carlos Kirjner and Craig Moffett said 2/21: More...

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Media News

Outcast partners with FOX News Channel for pump viewing
Outcast's Pump-top TV Network and FOX News Channel announced an exclusive partnership to deliver daily news updates to on-the-go viewers while they fuel up. Outcast will deliver FOX News Channel content to over 13,000 screens nationwide. More...

Winning at office politics
Most of us probably consider ourselves lucky that we are not in the business of politics. However, at the same time, it is a fact of life that politics exist just about everywhere in one form or another, and over half of American workers believe playing the game is necessary to keep a career moving in the right direction. And even if you don't, you are no doubt amidst others who do. Here's a helpful guide to playing the game.

RBR-TVBR observation:
We've looked at the suggestions that go along with this study. Some we've used personally for years; others we wish we were better at. And we can say that we endorse them all. If you decided not to click on this story, but have three or four minutes, we'd suggest that it can't hurt to give it a look. More...

RCS opens new office in Italy
Broadcast software developer RCS announced the establishment of a new office in Milan, Italy. Until recently, RCS had been represented in Italy by Pro Radio. Michele Logrippo, formerly part of Pro Radio, has transferred to RCS. More...

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Features - Only On RBR.com
Ideas Working Now
Indie artists and radio airplay
By Ken Dardis, President, Audio Graphics
A vibrant conversation is going on at Digital Music News. Under the headline of "Study: A Majority of Musicians Are Making $0 from Streaming Platforms..." there are comments ranging from it's no surprise, to outrage, to a bashing of the study's authors with claims. We have created a sea of options for consumers, an organization (SoundExchange) that was formed by labels - and which sends more money to the labels than any individual musician. There are also crippling reporting procedures for participating streaming entities, and a long list of artists who have gone unpaid. More...

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Ad Business Report
CiCi's launches new campaign
CiCi's Pizza has rolled out its new advertising campaign, "There's More Where That Came From," this week featuring TV, digital and in-store elements. The campaign's first spot will introduce the newest addition to the CiCi's Pizza buffet - The Hog Fest pizza, topped with bacon, Italian sausage, sliced ham and pepperoni. More...

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Media Markets & Money

Contract Close-up
How Soon Can I Close?
"Just like me, they want to be, closed with you." Burt Bacharach's lyricist Hal David almost wrote these words, and the Carpenters famously sang something close to them. Close - it's the goal of all broadcast wheeler-dealers. Both buyer and seller want to get the deal done, explains communications law expert John M. Pelkey of Garvey Schubert Barer, usually as soon as possible. But there may be differences of opinion in just how the pair should arrive at the closing table, and Pelkey opened up some actual contracts to analyze a variety of approaches to sealing the deal. More...

Salem expands to the southwest of Washington DC
Christopher Roth signed a contract to acquire an AM station from Metro Radio Inc. However, his tenure as buyer will go into the history books as a brief one, as he has signed the rights to acquire the station over to religious giant Salem Communications, which already has three stations in the market. More...

Radio Transactions
Network of Glory sends ten to AFA

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Washington Business Report
Closed captioning a must on formerly exempt programs
The FCC has noted that by now, almost three hundred television programs formerly exempt from the need to provide closed captioning are now required to do so. It stems from a change in the definition of what it takes to procure an exemption, and the lack of an application for a waiver under the new definition. More...

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Programming Business Report
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Pop Radio adds Roundy's
Compass Media Marketing has taken over ad sales representation for Point of Purchase Radio ("Pop Radio") in a multi-year deal starting 3-26. POP Radio's national coverage is now 18,465 stores. This includes the addition of Roundy's grocery stores along with several other smaller additions to the Grocery and Drug store coverage. More...

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Television
Ugly Americans returns to Comedy Central
"Ugly Americans" returns to Comedy Central in March with all-new episodes featuring the affable human social worker Mark Lilly (voiced by Matt Oberg), along with his creature cohorts of zombies, wizards, batboys and other assorted weirdos. The series follows "South Park" on Wednesdays. More...

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Ratings & Research

$170 million spent last year connecting media devices in cars
Portable media devices like smartphones, iPhones and iPods are gaining popularity in the vehicle as consumers increasingly use them to access digital content while on-the-go, according to The NPD Group. Sales of products designed to integrate portable devices in the vehicle accounted for more than $170 million in 2011.

RBR-TVBR observation: Regardless whether or not your car has Pandora, iHeartRadio or other online music built into the dash, it relies on a connected mobile phone to work. In fact, any car stereo can play online audio over the FM radio or aux/USB input. So for many, the car stereo just serves as a means for amplifying the sound of what's playing on their smartphone. More...

The Voice delivers again for NBC
Third Monday win in a row for NBC
ABC: We beat Fox
Fox slipped on Monday
CBS claims 2nd place on Monday
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Wall Street Business Report
Stocks end mixed after Dow crosses 13K - 2/21/12
European agreement on the bailout package for Greece gave the stock market a boost and the Dow Jones Industrial Average spent some time above 13,000 - where it hadn't been since May 2008. But the rally ran out of steam and the market closed mixed. The DJIA was up 16 points, or 0.1%, at 12,966. The S&P 500 was also up, but the Nasdaq Composite down. Broadcasting stocks ended lower. The RBR Radio Index was down 1.441, or 0.4%, to 354.579. The TVBR Television Index was down 5.224, or 2%, to 258.410. More...

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Trump takes to radio / Political could be through the roof
02/21/12 RBR-TVBR #36

Incentive auctions on the way / radio gains in 2011
02/20/12 RBR-TVBR #35

Q4 numbers coming in / Court battles over taxes and trademarks
02/19/12 Sunday edition

Consumer Confidence Up / Customer Interaction for Retailers
02/18/12 Saturday edition

Auctions are coming / KFI suspends John & Ken
02/17/12 RBR-TVBR #34

NBA locked out CBS / Spectrum auctions back in play
02/16/12 RBR-TVBR #33

Sky's the limit for 2012 political advertising
Analysts have projected record revenues for broadcasters from this year's elections. But just how big the political jackpot will be remains to be seen. Due to the Citizens United court ruling which gave free-rein to independent political action committees (PAC) to raise and spend money, creating the so-called Super-PACs, Sinclair Broadcast Group executives indicated in the company's quarterly conference that the final figure could be beyond what anyone expects at this point.

RBR-TVBR observation: The airwaves are going to be really crowded come October and early November. Car dealers, retailers and any other type of business you can think of would do well to schedule their advertising to run heavily ahead of that crunch.
02/21/12 RBR-TVBR #36

Clear Channel on deck
for earnings report

CC Media Holdings, the parent company of Clear Channel Communications, reports its Q4 and full year 2011 financial results on Tuesday morning (2/21). The thinly traded "pink sheets" stock is not followed officially by any equity analyst (although they do participate in the quarterly conference call to gauge radio trends and/or because they do officially analyze Clear Channel Outdoor). But there are other analysts who follow the company with intensity.

RBR-TVBR observation: Clear Channel is a much better proxy for the radio business as a whole than Emmis and is likely to post better financial results. The best news is that core business is picking up, even if the latest report from the RAB indicates that the gains are uneven.
02/21/12 RBR-TVBR #36

FiOS looking for young urban professionals
Are young urban professionals still called Yuppies? We confess we're not sure, but we are sure that Verizon wants them subscribing to its FiOS service for their voice, internet and television programming. After testing a campaign to enlist 25-39s in Washington DC, it is expanding its campaign into several new urban markets.

RBR-TVBR observation: Most of the big companies that have ever offered voice, video or internet service are now offering one-stop shopping for all three. The competition is still shaking out, and it will be interesting to see what this sector looks like in ten years.
02/21/12 RBR-TVBR #36

Availability of TV spectrum volunteers in question
As RBR-TVBR has noted during the debate over television incentive auctions, the odds of finding licensees willing to relinquish their channel space for a one-time payday are the lowest in the large markets where the need for it is highest. A report in the Los Angeles Times tends to confirm this notion.
02/21/12 RBR-TVBR #36

Romney plays a Michigan radio Trump card
Real estate mogul and reality television star Donald Trump put a temporary end to speculation that he would run as a third party candidate in the 2012 presidential election when he endorsed the candidacy of Mitt Romney. Now he's going to bat for Romney in the hotly contested Michigan primary.
02/21/12 RBR-TVBR #36




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