In your meaty Tuesday media column: rumors of coming layoffs (and a die-off?) at OK! magazine, a golf magazine is killed, advertising plummets, media companies may default, and Americans don't know a damn thing: We hear that OK! Magazine is, sadly, well on its way to becoming a mere shell of the gra...

. DUMP HOG RUPERT MURDOCH'S STOCK: NY POST & FOXNEWS PARENT NEWSCORP GOP PIGS GET FATTER, AMERICA SUFFERS AS RIGHT-WING MEDIA SPREADS LIES YOUTUBE: CNN: LARRY KING "Gov. Jindal: "Glad RNC's Steele Apologized to Rush Limbaugh"" Grovel, grovel. YOUTUBE: FOXNEWS SUNDAY "Brit Hume: Racial Defender!"...

. DUMP HOG RUPERT MURDOCH'S STOCK: NY POST & FOXNEWS PARENT NEWSCORP GOP PIGS GET FATTER, AMERICA SUFFERS AS RIGHT-WING MEDIA SPREADS LIES YOUTUBE: CNN: LARRY KING "Gov. Jindal: "Glad RNC's Steele Apologized to Rush Limbaugh"" Grovel, grovel. YOUTUBE: FOXNEWS SUNDAY "Brit Hume: Racial Defender!" Lap...

The Federal Communications Commission wants to fine a Clear Channel radio station $6,000 for allegedly screwing up a prize contest, and the decision raises interesting questions about the relationship between radio licensees and their websites. The case goes like this: In 2006, Los Angeles station K...

The media in this country has been a place where it tries to think for the individual.  It sort of reminds me of the fat, lazy humans in Wall-E.  We only pay attention to soundbytes, and even then, they have to be the most tempting.  People get lazy; hell if it hadn’t been so blatant, [...]...

This is the text of Clear Channel CEO Mark Mayes e-mail to his remaining employees yesterday!  I hope those of you in the industry get another good laugh at the idiot Mays boys desperate attempt to sound like good businessmen.  Face it, when daddy gives you the company and you are incompet...

Everyone, As I’ve mentioned previously, we are facing an unprecedented time of distress in the general economy — and the ripple effects have hit some of our largest customers hard. Today, we had the unpleasant task of bringing our Outdoor and Radio businesses’ staffing in line with...

The big commercial radio story making the rounds this week is news of Los Angeles’ Indie 103.1 going off the air to being online only in order to “save” its “integrity.” While it’s romantic to believe the notion of a commercial radio station suffering for its art ...

All private equity eyes are on Canada right now, where the C$52 billion buyout of BCE Corp. seems to be on life support. Something about how KPMG doesn’t believe BCE could possibly remain solvent after taking on tens of billions of dollars in new debt. Seems like somebody got religion… BCE is th...

Faithful readers will recall that, several months ago, I penned a 7-part “Media Metrics” series that took a hard look at the health of the media marketplace. Today, the Progress & Freedom Foundation is releasing a greatly expanded version of these essays that I have put together wit...