Peak Purchases CBS’s Fresno Stations
Peak Broadcasting has agreed to purchase CBS Radio’s Fresno, Calif., stations for $90 million in cash.
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Peak Broadcasting has agreed to purchase CBS Radio’s Fresno, Calif., stations for $90 million in cash.
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News about the mainstream newspaper industry is filled with woes, but for college publications, the news is good.
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Garlinghouse At the heart of Saturday’s front-page story in the Wall Street Journal on calls for change from within Yahoo is Yahoo SVP of Communications Brad Garlinghouse’s four-page internal memo dubbed the “Peanut Butter Manifesto,” which refers to how Yahoo spreads investments too thin across too many businesses.
XM plans to feature new weekend programming on the popular show Opie and Anthony channel.
Retail prices for HD digital radio receivers have slowly been coming down, and today RadioShack has announced a sale that makes at least one receiver truly affordable - that is, after the mail-in rebate.
Seven newspaper chains - representing some 176 daily papers nationwide - have announced a partnership with Yahoo to share content, advertising and technology; financial terms were not disclosed.
Conde Nast’s Domino has delivered a 20 percent bonus over its rate base for the first half of 2006, for an audited circulation of 542,497.
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Ecast, a music and entertainment company operating the nation’s largest network of broadband touchscreen jukeboxes, has partnered with DoubleClick to provide marketers with increased campaign flexibility and reporting for their interactive, out-of-home media campaigns.
Several of Fox’s affiliates have said they will not air the network’s controversial, two-part interview with O.J. Simpson next week.
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NPR is adding an online component to its popular weekend show, Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me.
A number of consumer magazines, including Details, CosmoGirl, Glamour and Brides, are including ads with short codes readers can use for text-to-buy transactions.
Beth Comstock, head of NBC Universal’s digital division, has a bold idea for the media company: creating advertising.
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The New York Times Magazine announced today that the upcoming issue of T: Travel magazine has a total of 99 advertising pages, a 14 percent increase over the same period one year ago.
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Federated Department Stores Inc. plans to sell its bridal group division because it does not fit in with its strategy of focusing on its national Macy’s and Bloomingdale brands.
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NBC seems to have halted its ratings decline thanks to the addition this season of Sunday Night Football.
