Rice University's student-run KTRU/Houston is on the way to a new owner, as the University of Houston's board has voted to go ahead with a deal to purchase the station, the Houston Chronicle reports. KTRU has launched an on-air campaign to protest the sale. |
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Media Monitors reports that BP upped its radio advertising significantly last week, airing 10,684 spots compared to 2,063 the week before. Five of the top 25 markets where the ads were heard were in Florida. |
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Media Management Group signs up AARP Radio, providing distribution and sales for AARP's long- and short-form programming. |
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Google's $750 million acquisition of AdMob was one of the most significant transactions to close in the second quarter, says PricewaterhouseCoopers in its latest report on tech-industry mergers and acquisitions. PwC reports that the quarter saw "a steady stream of deal announcements," but adds, "for the most part, transformational deals remained on the sidelines." |
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United Stations Radio Networks brings in Tom Sleeker as affiliate relations manager. Sleeker is a programming vet who spent 13 years at WVMV/Detroit. |
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Brian Pierce, the neo-Nazi who shot and killed Denver talk host Alan Berg in 1984, has died in prison at age 56. The Denver Post reports that Pierce died of natural causes. |
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Paul Stapleton is named managing director at media-focused investment bank Media Venture Partners. He was most recently in the same post at DH Capital. |
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Andrew Ross Sorkin joins the lineup at Radio Ink's Forecast 2011, set for December 7, 2010 at the Harvard Club in New York. Sorkin is the chief mergers and acquisitions reporter for the New York Times and the best-selling author of the recent Too Big to Fail, and he's as well connected in the financial world as anyone in radio. The thrice-daily "Business Brief With Andrew Ross Sorkin" is produced and distributed by United Stations Radio Networks. Click the headlne for Forecast information and registration. |
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