Whoops, I Forgot This One Too
By MIKE GRAHAM and ROB HOELL
wpix.com
10:50 a.m. EDT, May 5, 2010
GLEN COVE, N.Y. (WPIX)— Matrimonial attorney Dominic Barbara, who made headlines for representing infamous clients like Joey Buttafuoco, is now the subject of a scandal himself.
The flamboyant lawyer was arrested Tuesday after he approached his ex-wife in a bagel shop in Glen Cove Sunday morning, violating an order of protection, police said.
While in Glen Cove court Wednesday to finalize living arrangements over a posh home the two share, Barbara became agitated. At one point Judge Richard McCord ordered Barbara to stop staring at his ex-wife. "Stop staring at her, you are making me nervous," said McCord. "This is a sensitive matter, you're expressing emotions. I don't want it to explode into anything more than that."
http://www.wpix.com/news/local/wpix-...,1823662.story
"We definitely think Pandora’s got a great product…
but at the end of the day, it’s a playlist.
Tom Casey, CFO
Clear Channel
The acquisition of Thumbplay – “What Thumbplay does for us is accelerate some of the development we have on our digital platforms. It allows us to provide Pandora-like experiences for our listeners, as well as leverage the content we currently have.” Tom Casey says the goal is to “provide our content wherever and however our customers like to get it.”
Pandora – “We definitely think Pandora’s got a great product…[but] at the end of the day, it’s a playlist. Radio is a playlist that lives.” Casey says a CC-programmed service has the advantage of “curation…the ability to research what people want to hear. If you get tired of a song, it goes away.” But on the Pandora-like side of the business, “Customers like that experience, and we can provide that for them. We will be offering our custom type of offering”, as another feature of iHeartRadio – which drew a lot of interest from the Goldman Sachs crowd.
http://www.radio-info.com/news/clear...d-cost-cutting
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Federal judge dismisses some claims against Sirius XM, allows a class action
Sirius XM Senior VP of Communications Patrick Reilly says the company is "heartened" by the dismissal of the claims that sprang from 20 different states related to the satcaster's subscription management practices. But (says Bloomberg) Sirius lost on the question related to higher music royalty fees, following the merger of the two rivals.
http://www.radio-info.com/news/feder...ws-a-class-act
Matt Harrigan of Wunderlich Securities (pictured below) is in the process of analyzing the impact of this monumental decision . . .
FCC Decision On SiriusXM Rate Caps Due
By Joseph Palenchar -- TWICE, 3/10/2011
Washington - Final comments on whether the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should extend satellite-radio rate caps beyond July 28 are due tomorrow at the FCC.
During a Deutsche Bank conference earlier this week, SiriusXM executive VP/chief financial officer David Frear said the caps would "probably expire," claiming most of the comments sent to the FCC argued for expiration.
When it approved the merger, the FCC said the voluntary commitment to freeze prices, excluding passthroughs of any increase in music royalty fees, "would mitigate the harm from any post-merger price increases." The FCC also stated that "it did not know what the competitive landscape would be like in three years" and that it would seek public comment "on whether the price cap continues to be necessary in the public interest and whether the price cap should be modified, removed, or extended."
http://www.twice.com/article/465064-...hp?rssid=20310
