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  • Stocks finish lower after hitting early highs

    Stocks finished slightly lower Monday after many reached new all-time highs early in the session, only to retreat near intraday lows soon after. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.1% at 15,335. The RBR Radio Index was up 14.522, or 2.4%, to 631.932. The TVBR Television Index was up 6.609, or 1.1%, to 614.081. Winners CC Media, up 4.4% Beasley, up 4.2% Entercom, up 1.2% Losers ...

  • Stephens Media hires Rick Collier

    Rick Collier, formerly of Cox Radio, has become National Sales Manager of Stephens Media Group Tulsa. Stephens currently owns contemporary Christian music station KXOJ 100.9 FM, along with 97.1 FM the Tulsa Sports Animal, and recently announced a pending acquisition of KTSO 94.1 FM and KMYZ 104.5 FM. In addition to his national responsibilities, Collier will continue to cultivate relationships ...

  • Study U.S. Pay TV Thrown for Net Loss

    Video subscriber gains in the first quarter of 2013 by top U.S. service providers were not enough to avoid a first-ever net subscriber loss in the category over a four-quarter period, Leichtman Research Group (LRG) reported Monday. LRG's analysis of the top 13 multichannel video providers in the U.S., representing 94% of the market, showed that they added about 195,000 net additional ...

  • John McCains a la carte may be an empty plate

    Senator John McCain may be tilting at windmills as he attempts to take on the NCTA, Comcast Time Warner, Disney and other media conglomerates. His second effort at delivering an a la carte option for cable and satellite viewers may be doomed from the get ...

  • DOJ got records of Fox News journalist

    Sign up for free to get: The AM Report and PM Report delivered to your inbox. RBR-TVBR delivers complete broadcasting news analysis and our infamous ...


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Shrek the Third

Shrek the Third

Here's the fundamental problem with Shrek the Third: the first two Shrek films covered just about every hilarious to mildly amusing joke involving fairy tales imaginable, leaving the inevitable third entry with little to do but rehash old gags and try to stretch the previous ... ...

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  • ABC dominates final Sunday of season

    With the season finale of America's Funniest Home Videos and the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, ABC dominated the final Sunday of the season in Adults 18-49 (#1 in all 8 half-hours), beating Fox's night of season finales by 72%, CBS with two hours of 60 Minutes and a Country Music special by 138% and NBC with the 2-hour season ender of Celebrity Apprentice by 182%. The Billboard Music ...

  • Post-Newsweek ups Charles Chunn

    Charles Chunn has been named Vice President, Research of Post-Newsweek Stations. Previously he had been Research Director at WJXT-TV, PNS' independent station in Jacksonville, FL. Emily Barr, President and CEO of Post-Newsweek Stations, said, "For the past two years, Charles has done an outstanding job as Research Director for WJXT. During his tenure there, Charles has been an ...

  • Telemundo taps Robert Sarabia

    Telemundo Station Group announced the appointment of Robert Sarabia as Vice President of Sales for KTMD-TV Houston, responsible for overseeing the station's sales department and leading the staff to fully utilize Telemundo Houston's media offerings for advertisers. "Robert brings great leadership and experience to our sales organization," said Tony Canales, President and ...

  • Supremes Uphold Chevron Deference to FCC Interpretation of its Authority

    a court must give Chevron deference to an agency's interpretation of an ambiguity in a statute over the limits of its authority. In this case it was the FCC's assertion that it had the broad regulatory authority to impose a shot clock on tower citing applications to local governments. Traditionally, under the Chevron doctrine stemming from an earlier Supreme Court decision, courts ...

  • Wohler to show monitoring product line at Telemundo

    Wohler Technologies has announced that it will showcase its wide array of audio and video monitoring solutions on the Sistemas Digitales booth (A-13) at Telemundo - Expo Cine Video Television Show 2013, June 4-7 in Mexico City. Booth exhibits will feature the modular AMP1 and AMP2 audio-monitoring systems, the latest HDM Series dual split-screen HD LCD monitor, RMQ multidisplay solutions, and RM ...

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