The big Internet news recently was almost ignored in all the hullabaloo about Viacom suing GooTube. A coalition of Microsoft, Google, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Intel and Phillips have been urging the FCC to allow frequencies in the 700MHz spectrum which will become available in 2009 to be used for highspeed...
Senior executives at Moody's and Standard & Poor's may not have a happy new year. They are under increasing pressure from the US Congress about their perceived duopoly in providing credit ratings as well as other business practices such as unsoli Senior executives at Moody's and...
Cincinnati's WB affiliate is not the most watched station, but it may soon be drawing a lot of interest from other broadcasters in town. Thanks to the FCC'S vote on media deregulation today, Sinclair Broadcasting's WSTR-TV is the only station eligi Cincinnati's WB affiliate...
Bob Smith was duopoly before duopoly was cool. In 1986, Smith received FCC approval to own two TV stations in Johnstown/Altoona, Pa. Only last month did the FCC open up such duopolies to all broadcasters. Bob Smith was duopoly before duopoly was cool....
According to the business literature a firm's competitive position is determined by the nature of the market. In a 'premium' market, profit leadership falls to firms offering high quality, whereas in a 'value' market, it falls to low quality providers, which on grounds of a cost advantage capture a major...
Nancy Bauer Gonzales was officially ensconced atop the news operations at CBS stations' new duopoly in Los Angeles, KCBSTV and KCALTV. A former KNBCTV news director, she was new duopoly GM Don Corsini's choice to bead the soon-to-be combined ne Nancy Bauer Gonzales was...
Though the Federal Communications Commission's duopoly rule is so new many executives don't yet know all of its ins and outs, it's nearly certain that in a few areas of station operations-including advertising-the impact ought to be considerable. Though the Federal Communications Commission's duopoly...
Company seeks major local presence by teaming station duopolies with sports networks Call it Fox Television's "triopoly" strategy. Following FCC approval of its $5.4 billion purchase of Chris-Craft's 10 TV stations, the company aims Company seeks major local...
While TV-group owners by and large are announcing their plans to create duopolies as they go, they have been reluctant to reveal the prices they are paying for their second station in a market. However, as the deals are filed with the FCC, prices b ...
Whoever holds the pole position has a big advantage in the great duopoly race, and CBS is fighting to stake out an inside position. The network is asking the FCC to ditch plans that would make broadcasters compete via a lottery when they want to es ...
When Montclair Communications bought WZVN-TV Fort Myers, Fla., in 1996, the ABC affiliate was finally experiencing a turnaround. After having been flipped by three owners in the previous four years and nearly losing its local newscast, it was seei When Montclair Communications ...
Byline: valerie block For a preview of media consolidation under relaxed Federal Communications Commission ownership rules, check out New York. There are already three TV station duopolies. Two companies own television stations and newspapers. T Byline: valerie block ...
Small businesses seen to disadvantage in new ownership environment When the FCC was considering relaxing its radio ownership rules to allow companies to own as many as four stations in a market, some of the strongest opposition came from minor ...
For three of the top five TV station group owners--Viacom, Fox and Tribune-the likelihood of looser ownership rules is not just critical for expansion plans. Liberalized rules are also necessary for those three groups to keep the stations they alre For three of the...
If 'bigger is better,' the issue becomes 'better for whom?' In August, when Fox bought the 10 Chris-Craft stations for $5.4 billion, the deal gave Fox duopolies in New York, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Salt Lake City. Fox's Mitch Stern exclaimed...
With Republican FCC commissioners apparently coming to three-vote agreement 33 on significant opportunities for crossownership of local broadcast outlets and newspapers, TV-station groups are turning their lobbying toward making it easier to own tw With Republican FCC commissioners apparently coming to three-vote agreement...
Byline: valerie block If the Federal Communications Commission eases restrictions in June on how big media companies can get, Viacom Inc. will gobble up more television stations across the country. NBC will go on a buying spree as well, adding out Byline: valerie...
Former RTNDA Chairman on Sears will run the news at Fox's Orlando, Fla., duopoly, WOFLTV and WRBWTV. He joins as VP of news. Lena Sadiwski, who had been news director, will stay on in a different capacity, Sears said, ... Former RTNDA Chairman on...
Pegasus Communications will get to own two Tallahassee TV stations, even though the market doesn't have enough separately owned TV outlets to permit a duopoly, the FCC said Monday. Pegasus won a waiver to buy WFXUTV from KB Prime Media under ...
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