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2010-09-10:
Alden Global Capital gives it version of breakdown of talks to take Emmis
private - blames it on revision of deal it agreed to.
2010-09-10:
American Public Media Group/Minnesota Public Radio President Bill Kling,
who launched MPR in 1967, to stand down in June next year.
2010-09-09:
Emmis founder, chairman and CEO Jeff Smulyan gives up his second attempt
to take the company private.
*This report has been updated.
2010-09-09:
Boost from Federal elections helps increease Australian commercial radio
metropolitan advertising revenues in August by 17.3% on a year ago.
2010-09-09:
Pacifica Radio reported to be in talks about airing Qatar-based Al Jazeera
English news service on its five stations.
2010-09-08:
Emmis postpones yet again -until tomorrow evening - shareholders meeting
to vote on buyout deal.
2010-09-08:
Missouri Attorney General sues Sirius XM for breaching state's no-call laws.
2010-09-08:
US NPR launches its ARGO network of specialized local sites.
2010-09-07:
Westwood One announces that Gary Schonfeld is to step down as President
of its Radio Network Division and return to his Adlarge Media company.
2010-09-07:
UK media regulator Ofcom posts details of its digital multiplex licence
proposals and also its August Radio Update.
2010-09-06:
Clear Channel flips formats in Atlanta and Honolulu and in Denver Max Media
drops talk for Rythmic Oldies.
2010-09-06:
Westwood One filing shows that former chairman Norman J. Pattiz is to receive
USD 340,000 a year as consultant.
2010-09-05: Look
at licence and regulatory news of the past week.
2010-09-04: Peconic
Public Broadcasting's WLIU-FM still on air despite absence of formal confirmation
from Long Island University that it has not put station up for sale again.
2010-09-03:
Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan again extends - this time to Wednesday - deadline
for acceptance of offer to take the company private.
2010-09-03:
Gerry House announces that his morning show on Clear Channel's WPIX-FM,
Nashville, will end in December.
2010-09-03: BBC
Radio 5 Live launches new weekend schedule tomorrow.
2010-09-03: US
Federal Communications Commission proposes USD 20,000 penalty on Florida
pirate FM operator.
2010-09-03:
Longtime BBC Radio 2 early morning host Sarah Kennedy leaves station after
17 years in the slot..
2010-09-02:
Emmis delays yet again - this time until tomorrow - vote on attempted buyout
by founder, chairman and CEO Jeff Smulyan.
2010-09-01: CBS
Radio's KMOX-AM, St Louis, gets Cardinals' rights back after five-year hiatus.
2010-09-01:
Southern Cross Media Group - former Macquarie Media Group - Australian revenues
up 3.5% in year to end of June, driven by TV.
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2010-09-01:
Canadian watchdog rules that Toronto station's use of term "scab"
inaccurately for worker killed in elevator accident breached industry
codes.
2010-08-31:
Canadian private radio revenues down 5.2% on a year earlier in 2009 according
to Statistics Canada.
2010-08-31:
Radio One Inc. further extends the deadline for its offer to exchange
existing notes for new debt.
2010-08-31:
GMG Radio appoints Andy Carter, managing director of its north-west operations,
as managing director of the company's national Smooth Radio.
2010-08-31:
Clear Channel discloses that it spent USD 1.37 million in lobbying Congress
in second quarter, nearly twice the figure a year earlier.
2010-08-31:
UTV revenues up 9% on a year ago in first six months of year with operating
profits up 17%, driven by GB radio.
2010-08-30:
Alden Global Capital backs out of financing Emmis buy-out by its founder,
chairman and CEO Jeff Smulyan.
2010-08-30:
Westwood One founder Norman J. Pattiz steps down as chairman.
2010-08-30:
Australian Communications and Media Authority auctions five new high power
open narrowcasting licences for total of AUD 795,000.
2010-08-30:
CBS Radio appoints media veteran Steve Carver as Senior Vice President
and Market Manager, Los Angeles, to replace Ed Krampf.
2010-08-29:
Look at licence and regulatory news of the past week.
2010-08-28:
FCC reduces proposed penalties on an Illinois AM and North Carolina FM.
2010-08-27:
Emmis yet again fails to get quorum for meeting to vote on buyout offer
- still in talks with dissident preference shareholders.
2010-08-27:
Indian music industry threatens court action against Copyright Board's
new music royalty rates.
2010-08-26:
US National Association of Broadcasters EVP Dennis Wharton in blog accuses
opponents of mandatory FM tuner in cell-phones of of being "long
on exaggeration, rhetoric and factual inaccuracies."
2010-08-26:
New rates could cut Indian radio music royalty payments
by four-fifths.
2010-08-26:
BBC Trust says percentage of BBC radio programming open to independent
producers should be doubled to a fifth but the producers, who wanted more,
express disappointment.
2010-08-25:
BIA-Kelsey forecasts US over-the air revenues to rise by 4.4% this year
with large markets and online revenues to increase more.
2010-08-25:
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland signs contract for new community service
in County Cork.
2010-08-25:
US Federal Communications Commission proposes USD 4,000 penalty on Nassau
Broadcasting for not running competition as promoted but cancels USD 7,000
proposed penalties on two Florida stations.
2010-08-24:
Absolute Radio launches its 90s station on UK national commercial digital
multiplex for five week trial/ also suspends for a while operation of
its experimental online dabbl station.
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