Media General Reports December 2008 Revenues.
RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Media General, Inc. today announced that total company revenues in December 2008 were $56.1 million compared with $68 million in December 2007. The year-over-year decrease of 17.5 percent was attributable to lower Publishing Division and Broadcast Division revenues, which declined 15.4 percent and...

Scripps Reports Fourth-Quarter Results.
Additional initiatives being pursued to reduce expenses in 2009 CINCINNATI, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The E.W. Scripps Company today reported fourth-quarter operating results for its television, newspaper, and licensing and syndication businesses. The operations that formerly comprised the company's Scripps Networks and interactive media divisions, which were...

The 30-second campaign: even in the era of the Internet, TV ads still play an enormous role in presidential elections. Can you trust them?
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Can a candidate be sold like a soap, soup, or soft drink? That's the goal of political advertising, which in some ways is similar to, but in others is very different from, its product-peddling counterparts. Like all advertising, political ads are subjective, presenting...

Nielsen Monitor-Plus Reports on Political Advertising Activity for Mid-Term Elections.
Number of Local Spots up 31% from 2002 RNC and DNC Nearly Equal in Ad Activity for Local TV NEW YORK, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- With the 2006 mid-term elections just around the corner, Nielsen Monitor-Plus, the advertising intelligence service of Nielsen Media Research, today...

TV must run untruthful political ads.
That's right! Rules of the Federal Communications Commission bars television stations from censoring ads. The other side of that coin means that political ads must be accepted, regardless of their accuracy or truthfulness. That's why we are deluged each electoral campaign with ads we know to be...

Candidates need to be "FIT".
VIRTUALLY EVERY POLITICAL campaign loudly and indignantly complains that its opponents engage in the dreaded activity of "negative campaigning,' a practice nearly universally condemned as unfair or, worse, corrosive to the entire political system. Polls repeatedly show that the public agrees. One showed 82% of Americans deploring negative political...

Gray Reports Operating Results for the Three Months and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2008.
ATLANTA, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gray Television, Inc. ("Gray," "we" or "us") today announced results from operations for the three months (the "third quarter") and nine months ended September 30, 2008 as compared to the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2007. Comments on Results...

Sinclair Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. , the "Company" or "Sinclair," today reported financial results for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2008. Commenting on the quarter, David Smith, President and CEO of Sinclair, stated, "The economic recession and financial crisis...

Media General Reports October 2008 Revenues.
RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Media General, Inc. today released its monthly revenues report for October 2008. Total company revenues of $85.9 million compared with $91.2 million in October 2007. The year-over-year decrease of 5.8 percent was the company's second lowest monthly percentage decrease in 2008, mostly attributable...

Media General Reports November 2008 Revenues.
RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Media General, Inc. today released its monthly revenues report for November 2008. Total company revenues of $65 million compared with $75.8 million in November 2007. The year-over-year decrease of 14.2 percent was primarily attributable to lower Publishing Division revenues, which decreased 17.9 percent,...