Bubba the Love Sponge Clem, a radio personality whose stunts led to his departure from Clear Channel Communications three years ago, is returning to the FM airwaves next month on Cox Radio. ...more

December 11, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - Bubba the Love Sponge, a radio personality whose stunts led to his departure from Clear Channel Communications three years ago, is returning to the FM airwaves next month on Cox Radio. ...more

December 11, 2007

The Tribune's recent article ("FCC: Let Papers Buy Local Radio, TV Stations," Nov. 14) on media consolidation missed the bigger story about Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin's bid to annex what is in effect legislative authority through a questionable interpretation of a dusty 1980s legal clause: It could help him push through an anti-diversity agenda that would devastate opportunities for minority media ownership. ...more

December 3, 2007

Homeowners unhappy with their cable TV service from Century Communications may be able to get out of the contract by spring. ...more

December 1, 2007

Google confirmed its plans to bid for a prized piece of the airwaves in an upcoming government auction, further underscoring the Internet search leader's determination to shake up the wireless market and plumb more profits from mobile phones. ...more

December 1, 2007

Tampa Bay & Co., which promotes Hillsborough County as a visitors destination, has recruited to Tampa the Clinical Laboratory Management Association's2009 annual meeting with 2,000 attendees. Tampa beat Denver and Indianapolis for the conference business. Its expenditures could result in local economic impact of $3.7 million, Tampa Bay & Co. communications manager Travis Claytor said. ...more

November 30, 2007

A long-simmering dispute between the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and the cable television industry has reached a boiling point, with a potential showdown shaping up for the agency's next meeting. ...more

November 23, 2007

In many towns and cities, the newspaper is an endangered species. At least 300 daily papers have stopped publishing over the past 30 years. Those newspapers that have survived are struggling financially. Newspaper circulation has declined steadily for more than 10 years. Average daily circulation is down 2.6 percent in the last six months alone. ...more

November 15, 2007

Florida and several other states potentially could see a new round of buying and selling of TV stations if federal regulators loosen rules that regulate how companies can own newspapers, television and radio stations together. ...more

November 14, 2007

Some cable TV relief is coming to the gated communities and mobile home parks of Florida. ...more

November 14, 2007