Tim Jones

When the owners of AM radio stations started feeling the competitive heat from FM stations more than two decades ago, one of the first places they swung the cost-cutting ax...

Most Americans don't go to bed at night wondering how much money their favorite radio station is making--unless, of course, they work in the radio business. Or unless they draw...

Most Americans say they get their news from television, but if they relied on local TV news for information about last fall's elections, they didn't get much--at least not of...

Media companies have spent years looking for ways to make money off the Internet, and last week the folks at WBEZ-FM found one: They just asked for it. Over a...

Think something ought to be done about creeping voyeurism on television? Think maybe the new administration in Washington should step in? Imagine, for a moment, the conversation that might take...

Would you buy a magazine named Rosie's? Gruner & Jahr is betting that people will, which is why the company is killing the cover title of McCall's, a 125-year-old veteran...

When presidential appointees fall victim to controversy, as newspaper columnist Linda Chavez did this week, most return to their former jobs, soon to be relegated to that enormous scrap heap...

The Federal Reserve's surprise one-half percent cut in interest rates Wednesday did wonders for the stock market, at least for one day, but it's probably occurring much too late for...

It's never easy to win back customers once they've left. Just ask the folks at CBS-Ch. 2, which has been struggling for years to win back viewers after a disastrous...

A grateful editor paused recently to reflect on the wholly unexpected bounty that was dropped into the hands of the nation's talk show hosts five weeks ago, like a phenomenal...