Tuesday Morning March 8th, 2011, Volume 28, Issue 47
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 Charlie Sheen fired from "Two and a Half Men"
Warner Bros. Television has made it official. Charlie Sheen will not be returning to the company's hit sitcom "Two and a Half Men."
RBR-TVBR observation: If this surprises you, you obviously haven't been paying attention. You can still vote in our RBR-TVBR poll on the ultimate outcome. One sure bet is that several attorneys are going to get big checks from this. More...
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NAB's Gordon Smith discusses TV, radio on C-SPAN (video)
Appearing on C-SPAN's Communicator series, NAB President/CEO Gordon Smith said that there are three major issues on the association's plate - spectrum reallocation, retransmission consent and performance rights. He welcomed the split government currently sitting in Washington, which he said will make it harder for any ill-considered legislation to make it to the Oval Office for a signature.
RBR-TVBR observation: In Washington right now, the hurdles are in front of MVPDs, who want government intervention in retransmission negotiations; the FCC, which wants to give cash to broadcasters from auctions; and record labels, which want to extract cash from radio stations. NAB is on the other side of the hurdles, trying to prevent their crossing. That is a much easier job, but one that cannot be taken lightly. It's good to be on defense, but play it tough, broadcasters, play it tough. More...
Strong Q4 growth for LBI Media
Both television and radio posted strong growth in Q4 for LBI Media, with net revenues for the entire company up 19% to $30.7 million. TV led the way with 32% growth, but radio gained 8%. More...
LBI Media raising $240 million
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Where will the Charlie Sheen saga end up?
- CBS/Warner Bros./Lorre and Sheen will kiss and make up, and continue again next season.
- It will end up in court with Sheen winning and/or getting a hefty settlement for CBS pulling the plug on this season.
- Sheen will spiral out of control and his career will basically end, with no continuation of the show.
Go to www.rbr.com and vote now, let your voice be heard.
Submit your own poll question - Email [email protected]
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Ideas Working Now ™
Insights from Borrell Associates on Seizing Digital Media Opportunities
By Mary M. Collins, CEO/Media Financial Management Association
The Financial Manager's Perspective: "If you thought digital media injected a healthy dose of 'interesting' into the last 15 years of media watching, just wait until you see what happens over the next five." That was the message from Borrell Associates' Gordon Borrell and Peter Conti to members of MFM - the Media Financial Management Association in an article published inn the January-February issue of The Financial Manager (TFM) MFM's member magazine. More...
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3/16: Traffic and Revenue Management System Intel Brief
The Traffic Directors' Guild of America (TDGA) CEO Larry Keene, along with radio and television traffic personnel nationwide, submit questions and issues for vendors in the space to respond.
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BBB beefs up Advertising Accountability Program
The Council of Better Business Bureaus is closer to its goal of monitoring online advertising data collection of consumers, and informing them. Implementation of its online Advertising Accountability Program is moving forward by signing a contract with Evidon, Inc., a commercial marketer of monitoring services, and tapping Eugenie Barton, former VP/general counsel to the US Telecom Association, as Director of the program.
RBR-TVBR observation: Behavioral online ad information is extremely important to marketers to make their campaigns effective. But, of course, there is a thin line of invading one's privacy to get that info. More...
History Will Be Made returns for 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs
Last year's NHL and NBC Sports Group's "History Will Be Made campaign" will return for the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs but with an expanded presence. This year the campaign will be executed across TV, online, radio, print, in-arena, in-store POP, mobile and the social media platforms of the NHL, NBC and VERSUS as well as additional NBC Universal platforms including CNBC and MSNBC. More...
Cablevision, GroupM launch addressable campaign for five brands
Media Monitors looks at Domestic Auto and Sacramento ads
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Stocks fell again on Monday - 3/7/11
It wasn't oil this time, but rather the tech sector which sent stock prices lower after Wells Fargo Securities downgraded the semiconductor sector. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 80 points, or 0.7%, to 12,090. Broadcasting stocks also fell. The RBR Radio Index was down 4.103, or 1%, to 397.936. The TVBR Television Index was down 5.885, or 2.2%, to 256.819. More...
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| CC Media |
+9% |
Salem |
-6.2% |
| SBS |
+3.2% |
LIN |
-5.3% |
Arbitron |
+1.6% |
Emmis |
-5.2% |
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Only On RBR.com
Insights from Borrell Associates
On Seizing Digital Media Opportunities
Washington
Business Report
House Democrats continue
Pressing Republicans on net neutrality
Ad Business Report
"History Will Be Made"
Returns for 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs
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Lobbyists promoted
Comcast Corporation has promoted Kathy Zachem to Senior Vice President, Regulatory and State Legislative Affairs, and Melissa Maxfield to Senior Vice President, Congressional and Federal Government Affairs. Zachem has been with the company since 2008 and Maxfield since 2003.
New CFO
Veteran finance executive Andrew Rooke has joined Crown Media Holdings as Executive Vice President and CFO. He has previously worked for units of News Corporation and Time Warner.
Analysts upgraded
Wells Fargo Securities has promoted two analysts well known to broadcasters. Equity analyst Marci Ryvicker and high-yield bond analyst Bishop Cheen have both been upgraded to Managing Director from Director.
New PD
Tim Richards is moving to the Clear Channel Radio Phoenix cluster as Director of the "Johnjay and Rich Show" and Program Director of The New 95.5 KYOT-FM. He had been the company's Operations Manager in Tucson.
Tampa DOS
Genesis Communications has hired David Bunnell as its Director Of Sales for its Tampa Market cluster of radio stations and digital initiative. He was most recently DOS for WWSB-TV (ABC) Sarasota, FL.
BIM changes
Broadcast Interactive Media (BIM) announced the new hire of Mike Schuch Jr. as VP of Local Sales, the promotion of Herb Skoog to Sr. VP of Operations and the promotion of Mick Rinehart to Sr. VP of Products and Data Services.
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DigiMedia suing groups / LIN off Dish
3/07/11 RBR-TVBR #46
Best merger of the week / Stage set for a good year
3/6/11 Sunday edition
Auto biz report card / Wireless users online habits
3/5/11 Saturday edition
Protesters go topless / FCC opens retrans consent
3/04/11 RBR-TVBR #45
Cumulus big exec bonuses / MSTV to merge w/ NAB
3/03/11 RBR-TVBR #44
Moonves speaks on Sheen / Dish hopes on FCC
3/02/11 RBR-TVBR #43
DigiMedia suing big groups for automation patent infringement
Including Beasley Broadcasting, CBS Radio, Cox Radio, Cumulus, Entercom, Greater Media and Townsquare Media-a total of 900 stations are tallied in the suit.
RBR-TVBR observation: Lucky Beasley - first alphabetically so they're stuck as the name of the lawsuit. Given the age of the patents and the amount of automation equipment that has been sold, we wonder why has it taken DigiMedia so long to assert its claims? Those claims seem rather dubious, since multiple products were already on the market when the patent applications were filed.
3/07/11 RBR-TVBR #46
Blogger suggests connected car may do in radio
Automobile-based internet connections will bring competitors into radio's traditional home field. But there's more - the blogger thinks radio may be hurt by competing with: Radio.
RBR-TVBR observation: Radio was written off when network television robbed it of its block programming modus operandi, and it survived that and grew stronger. Since it became the predominant in-vehicle medium, many newcomers have tried and failed to oust it. Is the internet going to join the list, or will it be the one to finally deliver radio a knock-out punch?
3/07/11 RBR-TVBR #46
LIN stations knocked off Dish
RBR-TVBR observation: Now that the FCC's Thursday meeting has passed and a notice of proposed rulemaking unanimously adopted to define more clearly what constitutes "good-faith" negotiating, we suspect that Dish will pretty quickly get back to the table for some of that good-faith bargaining. No doubt the satellite carrier is getting an earful from customers who've lost access to their favorite programs on major networks - and in four of those 17 markets two of the big four networks.
3/07/11 RBR-TVBR #46
Upper Peninsula crowd of radio stations sold
That is if you believe the old adage that three is a crowd. Houghton Broadcasting Inc. is selling an AM and two FMs to Houghton Community Broadcasting Corporation. The companies may have similar names, but are owned by two different individuals. Details of the sale at RBR.com.
3/07/11 RBR-TVBR #46
Saga says Q4 revenues were up 7.4%
Has postponed its full Q4 results announcement and conference call by a week from next Tuesday to March 15th due to the illness of a key financial staffer's family member. However, the company had issued some preliminary financial data.
3/07/11 RBR-TVBR #46
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