INSIDE MUSIC MEDIA™ (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Jerry Del Colliano When Terry Gross interviewed Joshua Kosman, author of "The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis" on NPR’s Fresh Air recently, she nailed the issue from the start. Gross said, “Honestly, like, I really don't understand how that works, that, like, I buy your company, and then you have to pay the debt for...
INSIDE MUSIC MEDIA™ (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
By Jerry Del Colliano The first quarter sales package has arrived at Clear Channel’s seven station Tucson cluster. The radio industry’s “leader” is at it again. It appears the Evil Empire has the same low opinion of radio’s value as it does of its employees. The Tucson cluster rates beginning in January start at $4 and go all the way up to – well, maybe...
INSIDE MUSIC MEDIA™ (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
By Jerry Del Colliano (That's me on the right next to my daughter, Daria -- with one last Thanksgiving picture. My wife and I fed these guys!) Did you see over the weekend that Jay Leno is losing his audience not to other television networks but to – DVR machines? TiVos are eating television alive. Leno is down 1.8 rating points in his 10 pm (eastern) daily show. You may remember...
INSIDE MUSIC MEDIA™ (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
By Jerry Del Colliano (With my daughter, Daria at Thanksgiving) Six weeks and counting until January 15th – the deadline for the first failed radio consolidator to file for bankruptcy. That’s when Citadel will either throw itself on the mercy of the courts or its lenders will bitch slap CEO Fagreed Suleman into a prepackaged reorganization that will cede operating ownership...
