GLG News by Magazine Publishing Experts

2009 is going to be a tough year but what else is new? TV, like other media is not immune to the economic downturn. Advertisers are being forced to re-look media/marketing expenditures, that in itself is not unusual or a bad thing per se.

Under reporting of audience listenership to Urban and Spanish-language stations hurts everyone, the listeners and advertisers. It's taken main stream marketers a while to fully understand the importance of these audiences

As with other mediums, revenue is down but radio is far from out of business. New technologies and a return to localism will help.

Continued growth overall, key shifts in population demographics. New technology enables advertisers to better reach these targets.

No surprises here as newspapers continue to lose relevance amongst readers and advertisers. The Internet will be the biggest winner as has been forecasted for a while now

This is beginning to look like a new version of Clear Channel's "less is more", in this case it's about less stations rather than shorter message lengths. It's a far cry from the early days of Mel Karmazin's management of the radio division.

You cut and cut and before you know it there's no product to sell. Unlike a factory or other asset, there's no correlation between reducing cost and overhead and making a profit.

With unique users up 94% and total page views up only 45%, it's clear that wsj.com has found more ways to introduce non-subscribers to the frustrations of its site

Massive debt + no real plan + continued business decline = big trouble

Newspapers are failing on both fronts.  They are in a severe print advertising recession.  And online sales are slowing -- up  a mere 7% vs. industry-wide growth of 24%.  Falling revenues make reducing debt at Tribune more difficult and put dividends at risk at McClatchy, Gatehouse...