What a time to hold a conference called “Media and Money” but that’s just what Dow Jones and Nielsen did last week. The conference featured a number of top executives from media, private equity, agency and analyst firms who were interviewed by reporters one-on-one and in panels. While there were plenty of silver lining moments, …

Posted by Terence Thomas
Interactive Marketing Manager, ActiveAccess
For the past year or so, I have found RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds to be a really simple and helpful way for me to stay on top of news and information that takes place throughout the day.
I thought a few of my clients, who are Marketing professionals and …

Posted by Georgina Santilli,
MAPro Client Services Manager, BIA
My four year old daughter has changed her mind at least 10 times over the past weeks on what she wants to be this Halloween. At first she wanted to be a ghost, then the wicked which of the west, then a one eyed monster. After …

Posted by: Steve Passwaiter
Vice President, Business Development
If there was ever an industry that could use an army of missionaries, it’s commercial radio. According to news reports this past week, a new group of PR and communications professionals have formed the Radio Communicators Group. This new group has two goals: 1) to effectively …

Posted by: Edward Czarnecki
Senior Vice President, SpectraRep
As a courtesy to our colleagues in the emergency management and broadcast industry, we’ll be providing occasional updates as to key developments in the countdown towards the migration of broadcast EAS to an Advanced CAP-based EAS.
As you recall, the FCC set the ball in motion when it decided in …

Blog Post by: Rick Ducey
Chief Strategy Officer, BIA
The public market has punished those invested in over leveraged mortgages and mortgage backed securities and derivatives. Unfortunately, in one way or another, this has back lashed and generated substantial collateral damage both across vertical markets and across the globe. Private equity investors, while still looking for deals …

Posted by: Rick Ducey
Chief Strategy Officer
BIA Financial Network
The next frontier for broadcast radio and television stations is to go mobile. Mobile? Strange that this should be considered broadcasting’s next frontier when it was the original wireless medium. But the fact is that about the fastest growing and most exciting media platform today is the mobile …

I am extremely pleased to announce that MEDIA Access Pro™ 4.3 is scheduled for release in early November 2008. At present, we are concluding quality assurance testing and preparing for a seamless launch.
This new version of MEDIA Access Pro offers valuable new data and functionality to users:

Digital station data, including detailed contacts-You will now …