Radio's Revenue Drops Even Though Audience Grows
Can radio save itself? Listeners are diverted by iPods and Internet and satellite radio. Companies are loaded with debt. Advertisers are heading to t...
Can radio save itself? Listeners are diverted by iPods and Internet and satellite radio. Companies are loaded with debt. Advertisers are heading to t...
Jack Myers | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business
The time for radio, newspaper, magazine, local television, yellow pages and other media companies to institute turnaround strategies has long-since past.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.25.2008 | Media
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Chris Nelson | Posted 06.06.2008 | Entertainment
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.
Jack Myers | Posted 05.28.2008 | Media
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.
Tim Robbins | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
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.
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...
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...
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...
Paul Nair | Posted 03.04.2008 | Media
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?
Charles Warner | Posted 02.13.2008 | Media
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Rep. John Conyers has written a letter to Democratic colleagues urging them to join...
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New York Times | STEPHANIE CLIFFORD | Posted 11.25.2008 | Media