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Comcast/TWC Approval, 2015 Prospects
Chairman/CEO Brian Roberts believes his company’s acquisition of Time Warner Cable is a very approvable transaction and that it will get that approval – just one positive event in what the company expects to be a great year. More...

Online Political Posting Inches Forward
The FCC’s proposal to add radio to the list of media that must post their political advertising transactions online is now ready for commentary, and deadline dates have been set.
RBR-TVBR observation: We completely agree with applying the rules to MVPDs. More...

Casting a Net for Political Cash?
We don’t know if Salem’s new deal to team up with CNN for the broadcast of Republican presidential primary debates is a play for political advertising income, but we can’t think of a better way to prime that pump.
RBR-TVBR observation: What better place could there possibly be… More...

The Gift of Radio
There are no doubt a lot of people that have had a radio given to them over the years, but the vast majority of those gestures involve some form of receiver. In this case, we’re talking actual stations. More...

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Comcast/NBCU Flies High
Multimedia conglomerate Comcast/NBCU was hitting on all cylinders in both the Q4 and the full year as well. The broadcast division had a particular good final quarter. More...

If There’s Going to Be a Wedding…
…shouldn’t somebody tell the bride and groom? It seems that those spreading the word about the potential nuptials between 21st Century Fox and Discovery have neglected to inform the principals. More...

MTV Goes Mobile and OTT
Ever-evolving MTV wants millennials, and in order to find them, it has created two new channels that will go to where many of them are – the mobile and OTT video markets. More...

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Intelligence Brief
Bringing the FCC's Contest Rule Up to Date
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman tells you all you need to know about the FCC’s online contest rule initiative, and offers an extremely important reminder – which is that stations are also subject to state and federal regulation in this area. More...

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Consumer Confidence Hits a Pothole
We don’t know if it was the weather, we don’t know what it was, but after posting a substantial gain in January, the Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index went into retreat in February.
RBR-TVBR observation: We haven’t had to write a negative confidence story. More...

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Comcast Weighs in on Title II
Like all ISPs in the United States, Comcast will be paying close attention to what the FCC does on Thursday 2/26/15. And it already knows, based on what FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has said, that it isn’t expecting to like what it hears. More...

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EMF Invests in Clint Eastwood Territory
A construction permit acquisition is giving religious non-com Educational Media Foundation reasonably good access to the California coastal market known as Monterey-Salinas. And the price is very reasonable. More...

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Powell: Get Ready for Court
If there’s one thing FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has been clear on, it’s his expectation that no matter what the FCC does about net neutrality, it’s going to go to court. NCTA President/CEO and former FCC Chair Michael Powell seconds that notion.
RBR-TVBR observation: Are we surprised? More...

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Upbeat Stock Day Doesn’t Help Broadcast
Janet Yellen told Congress that the Fed is patient, and the European community said it would work with Greece, and stocks were said to do great. But radio and TV didn’t get the memo. Didn’t lose value, more like a flatline. The RBR Radio Index rose 1.370, or 0.2%, to 730.956. The TVBR Television Index was flat at 910.118. More...

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Winners		Losers		Radio & Television Indexes
Saga	+2.9%	Radio One	-3.6%
Beasley	+2.8%	Cumulus	-1.5%
Tribune	+1.8%	Entercom	-1.5%

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