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...Moreno is betting that the Los Angeles tag will raise the fees broadcasters pay to show Angels games. Fox Sports Net pays the Los Angeles Dodgers $35 million a year to show its games; this year it is paying the Angels just $19 million. "All our broadcast partners come out of L.A.," Moreno says. "Plus, when I go to New York and turn the Angels on the TV, it will be New York/Los Angeles, large market vs. large market, and over time that brand grows." Not everyone agrees that the L.A. tag will affect TV deals. Says Robert Hollander, president...
...mixing martinis in the studio, the scene was suggestive of radio's party days, before Big Radio ate the AM/FM dial, demanded quarterly profit growth and sucked the fun right out of the control booth. Except that a wannabe big corporate entity was footing the bill for the show, broadcast from a gleaming new studio in a Rockefeller Center skyscraper. And the Glamazons were tame compared with the time Romaine invited a male porn star into the studio for a little on-air fun, and curtains had to be drawn--this for a radio show. "If listeners find it interesting...
Sirius and its bigger satellite competitor XM are death stars to the broadcast-radio industry. Since 1996 companies such as Clear Channel and Infinity (part of Viacom) have taken advantage of deregulation to buy hundreds of stations with the idea of bringing scale--and higher ad prices--to the airwaves. For a while it worked, as industry revenues rose at a double-digit clip during the late '90s ad boom and stations racked up profits thanks to cost cutting. But for listeners, that consolidation brought homogeneity, as corporate playlists suffocated local jocks, and ever more ads were jammed into each...
...listeners to more than 1.4 million; XM added 540,000 subscribers in the first quarter of this year to reach an audience of 3.8 million. Reasons: better programming choices; lots of programming choices. In other words: game on. Advances in technology mean that every listener is up for grabs. Broadcasters have to contend not only with satellite operators like Sirius but also with cell-phone makers and service providers, iPods and even Internet amateurs who can find audiences for the oddest musical tastes. Broadcast radio's answer: fighting back with its own digital strategy...
...Last week's attacks came four days after Mubarak unofficially opened his presidential campaign with a three-part, seven-hour interview broadcast on state-run television. Titled "A Statement for History" and billed as a rare look at Mubarak's human side, it showed a relaxed leader discussing his life in the Air Force, ascension to high office in 1981 and polices as president over the last quarter century. But many Egyptians reacted with disappointment, seeing the interview as self-serving propaganda that signaled Mubarak's determination to celebrate the status quo rather than embrace the need for change. Mubarak...