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  • Rupert Murdoch Splits News Corp. Confidence Waning in Emerging Markets Inflation at 53-Year Low… Means Very Little to Middle America

    Bloomberg ) Rupert Murdoch relented to shareholder demands, splitting his News Corp. media empire into two separate investments. Tuesday's move was a procedure more akin to separating Siamese twins than spinning off a new company, as two new, nearly equal businesses were created. The new entities are: "News Corp." (NNC), which consists of the Wall Street-based publishing company ...

  • 95.7 KISS FM taps Louie Cruz

    95.7 KISS FM (KSSX), The Rhythm of San Diego, has named Louie Cruz PD, effective 7/1. Cruz will bring more than 20 years of radio broadcast experience to his new position at 95.7 KISS FM. His love for radio started from watching the popular 1980's television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati and listening to Don Rose on the legendary KFRC. As a teenager, he began mixing at house parties and later ...

  • Beasley promotes Justin Chase

    Beasley Broadcast Group announced the appointment of Justin Chase to Vice President of Programming. In this newly created position, Chase will oversee all programming responsibilities for Beasley's portfolio of 40+ radio stations located in 11 markets. Additionally, he is charged with developing creative campaigns that extend the tations' on-air brands to the digital space. This ...

  • Sens. Ask Clyburn to Issue NPRM on Sports Blackout Rule

    Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) aren't waiting around for a new FCC chair to push the FCC to act on a longstanding petition to lift its sports blackout rule.In a letter to acting FCC chair Mignon Clyburn, the senators said it was past time to act.The rule prevents cable or satellite providers from carrying an NFL game when the over-the-air broadcast is ...

  • AP Chief DOJ Record Seizure Has Chilled Sources

    The U.S. government's secret seizure of AP phone records has thrown a scare into some of the iconic news outlet's sources, as well as those of other journalists. That is according to AP president Gary Pruitt, who provided an update on the issue at a speech at the National Press Club on Wednesday, according to a copy of the prepared text obtained ...


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Movie Review

Wild Wild West

Barry Sonnenfeld's "Wild Wild West" is a giant, bombastic flop of a movie. It's a $100-million science fiction-Western-comedy-action hybrid with elaborate special effects and big name stars that never manages to balance itself, let alone gain momentum. It just sort of chugs along on good intentions and the hope that some of its tedious jokes might land with something other than a thud. ...

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  • Sports Summit Freer -- If Its Must-Have It Cant Cost Too Much

    New York -- Live sports has taken a lot of blame recently for driving up customers' cable bills, with rights deals being signed at record numbers. Randy Freer, copresident and COO, Fox Sports Media Group, isn't buying that notion. "There's a reason they call it 'must-have' programming," Freer ...

  • ABC rides NBA playoffs to another prime time win

    NBC at least made it somewhat competitive with its final Voice episode, but the NBA playoffs still beat it in the Nielsen contest by a wide margin. Univision was 3rd, just edging Fox, and CBS brought up the ...

  • Mount Wilson snags second Monterey radio station

    $300K KNRY-AM Monterey-Salinas CA (Monterey CA) from IHR Educational Broadcasting (Douglas M. Sherman) to Mount Wilson FM Broadcasters Inc. (Saul Levine). $10K escrow, $190K cash at closing, $100K consulting agreement. Combo with KYZZ-FM Salinas CA, coming in separate deal. [FCC file date ...

  • Sagamore Hill flips stations in two DMAs to Frontier

    $20.5M KGWN-TV, KSTF-DT & K19FX-D Cheyenne WY-Scottsbluff NE (Cheyenne WY, Scottsbluff NE, Laramie WY); and KGNS-TV Laredo TX from Sagamore Hill Broadcasting LLC (Louis Wall) to Yellowstone Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of Frontier Radio Management Inc. (Jason Wolff). $1.025M escrow, balance in cash at closing. [FCC file date ...

  • Demise of West Palm LPTV stands

    WALO-LP in West Palm Beach had to vacate Channel 53, and was authorized to begin digital operation on Channel 44. However, it failed to get on the air on Channel 44 within 12 months, had its license rescinded according to the rules and has failed to get it back on appeal. According to the rules, any station that is off air for a full year is to be shut down. The station did go back on the air ...

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