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Radio's Revenue Drops Even Though Audience Grows

New York Times | STEPHANIE CLIFFORD | Posted 11.25.2008 | Media


Can radio save itself? Listeners are diverted by iPods and Internet and satellite radio. Companies are loaded with debt. Advertisers are heading to t...

Recession Strategy for the Radio Industry: Cut Spot Costs Now and Make Long-Term Deals

Jack Myers | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business


Jack Myers

The time for radio, newspaper, magazine, local television, yellow pages and other media companies to institute turnaround strategies has long-since past.

Journalism With Conscience

Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.25.2008 | Media


Mike Ragogna

In A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charles Schultz scripted a line for Chuck's little sister Sally about a big syndicate back east that controlled the holi...

Sirius XM Chief Predicts Radio Domination: "We're Going To Be Bigger Than Clear Channel"

New York Post | Peter Lauria | Posted 08.11.2008 | Media


Mel Karmazin is on a mission. Now that the creation of Sirius XM is official, terrestrial radio's formerly brightest star is after nothing short of t...

Sean Hannity Gets $100 Million Deal

MediaWeek | Katy Bachman | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media


In the end, Citadel Broadcasting, which inherited top Talk personality Sean Hannity when it bought ABC Radio, could only hold onto Hannity through an ...

Clear Channel Bans Ads For Harry Shearer's CD Over Anti-Bush Image

Huffington Post | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media


Clear Channel, the radio station and billboard powerhouse, has banned an ad for Harry Shearer's new CD "Songs of Bushmen" because it depicts George Bu...

Bomb It

Chris Nelson | Posted 06.06.2008 | Entertainment


Chris Nelson

One thing (among many) the new documentary Bomb It accomplishes magnificently is lending a human element to the faceless graffiti anyone walking down the street has seen.

Freedom of Speech and Press Emerging as Presidential Debate Issue

Jack Myers | Posted 05.28.2008 | Media


Jack Myers

In his convocation address this year, retiring Newhouse School Dean David Rubin explained he sought to come up with questions for the candidates about the area he knows best: freedom of speech and press. Here are questions Rubin would like the Presidential candidates to answer.

The Power and Responsibility of our Nation's Broadcasters

Tim Robbins | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics


Tim Robbins

Broadcasters have the power to turn this nation away from the hatred and the divisive dialogue that has rendered such a corrosive effect on our body politic.

Six Banks Sued In Clear Channel Deal

New York Times | MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics


The buyers of Clear Channel Communications received a curious e-mail message last July from Credit Suisse, one of the banks financing the radio broadc...

Report: Clear Channel Deal Collapsing

AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business


SAN ANTONIO — Shares of Clear Channel Communications Inc. plummeted in late trading Tuesday, following a report that the media company's private...

Report: Clear Channel Deal Collapsing

AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 03.25.2008 | Business


SAN ANTONIO — Shares of Clear Channel Communications Inc. plummeted in late trading Tuesday, following a report that the media company's private...

Radio, Radio

Paul Nair | Posted 03.04.2008 | Media


Paul Nair

I've found myself temporarily living back in my native North Carolina for a month. I've been spending hours a day it seems behind the wheel. And what is driving without the radio?

The Media Lucky Sperm Club

Charles Warner | Posted 02.13.2008 | Media


Charles Warner

The only thing lower than the top management scores at the Times, Cablevision, and Clear Channel is the morale. Employees know nothing will change as long as daddy lets sonny play at management.

FCC Approves $19M Clear Channel Buyout

AP | Posted 01.11.2008 | Media


The Federal Communications Commission has signed off on the $19.5 billion deal that will take the nation's largest radio broadcaster private, an agenc...

Why This Buffoon Commands A BriWi Paycheck

Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 11.06.2007 | Media


Glenn Beck hosts a little-watched, scarcely-promoted show on CNN's Headline News, but he just signed a radio deal worth $50 million over five years. W...

Glenn Beck Re-Signs Radio Contract For $50 Mil

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 11.05.2007 | Media


On his daily radio talk show, Glenn Beck portrays himself as an average guy, a recovering alcoholic and a comedian who regularly injects humor into hi...

Radio Boycotts Bruce Springsteen's Latest

FOXNews | Roger Friedman | Posted 10.30.2007 | Entertainment


Bruce Springsteen should be very happy. He has the No. 1 album, a possible Grammy for Best Album of the Year, for "Magic," an album full of singles, a...

Clear Channel Won't Let Veterans Ad Run During Rush's Show

Think Progress | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics


Rush Limbaugh's hometown radio station that broadcasts his show -- WJNO AM in Palm Beach, Florida -- has refused to air a VoteVets ad by Brian McGough...

Senate Dems Call On Clear Channel To Renounce Limbaugh's Remarks

Posted 09.28.2007 | Politics


Senate Democratic leaders will send a letter "early next week to Mark P. Mays, CEO of Clear Channel Communications, calling on him to publicly repudia...