The News Review:
- Gilreath pens Radio Affiliate Services & Syndication
- Upfronts 2009: Discovery’s Zaslav Says Market’s Hard to Gauge
- Station Break: The News That TV News Won’t Cover
- Here Comes the Internet Tax
- UpClick Unveils The World’s First Free Payment Processing for …
- 10-Q: AFFILIATED MANAGERS GRUP INC
- China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial …
Gilreath pens Radio Affiliate Services & Syndication
Streaming Magazine
National sales for RASS clients will be handled by United Stations Radio Networks. Gilreath said “I have found that there is great programming being developed as there are other radio products and services but they need help in getting to the marketplace and realizing their revenue potential. “He continued “With experience from on-air programming sales and station management plus having a programming and sales consultancy background combined with over seven years in syndication and a really large Rolodex Radio Affiliate Services & Syndication has developed professional relationships with radio’s decisionmakers from PDs to CEs and abilities needed to do business in today’s environment which will provide our clients the greatest chances of success with their business.
Upfronts 2009: Discovery’s Zaslav Says Market’s Hard to Gauge
Multichannel News
affiliate revenue rose 11% and ad revenue rose 2% for an overall increase of 5% year over year to $509 million in the first quarter the company said as part of its. Discovery has affiliate-fee increases built into its contracts and saw subscriber growth from its digital networks officials said during a conference call with analysts.
Station Break: The News That TV News Won’t Cover
Washington Post
_______________________Pittsburgh Pa. : Here in the Steel City our Fox station’s 10 p. news hour is done by our NBC affiliate (which then has its own 35-minute broadcast at 11) — while our CW station’s 10 p. hour consisting of 30 minutes or news followed by a 30-minute phone-in sports talk show is handled by our CBS affiliate.
Here Comes the Internet Tax
American Spectator
The decision which was based upon the dormant commerce clause doctrine — which essentially says that Congress?s power to regulate interstate commerce implicitly denies such power to the states — upheld a bright line physical presence test. It also held that only Congress through legislation could delegate broader powers to the states. New York’s legislation attempted to end run around Quill by requiring online retailers to collect state and local sales tax if they had affiliate advertisers within the state. (It depends on what the meaning of physical presence is?) Affiliate advertisers basically consist of websites often run by small businesses or organizations like the Parent Teacher?s Association that carry advertisements from other online retailers like verstock. As a result of the massive administrative costs that the law would have imposed verstock.
UpClick Unveils The World’s First Free Payment Processing for …
Business Wire (press release)
” UpClick’s offering eliminates processing fees while also driving additional revenue to a software company’s bottom line by offering complementary non-competitive offers at the point of checkout. Merchants choose the offers that are displayed on their checkout pages from products they own or from those of other merchants in the network. Processing fees are eliminated for all merchants whether or not their customers accept the offers and the aggregate sales across the UpClick affiliate network fund the free transactions. Companies that use UpClick to process payments are also eligible—but not required—to cross-sell their products via the platform and when a shopper chooses to accept an offer that is presented to them at checkout subsequent revenues are shared between all parties involved. Some of the software industry’s leading vendors including.
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10-Q: AFFILIATED MANAGERS GRUP INC
MarketWatch (press release)
In most cases we own a majority of the equity interests of a firm and structure a revenue sharing arrangement in which a percentage of revenue is allocated for use by management of that Affiliate in paying operating expenses of the Affiliate including salaries and bonuses. We call this the “perating Allocation. ” The portion of the Affiliate’s revenue that is allocated to the owners of that Affiliate (including us) is called the “wners’ Allocation. ” Each Affiliate allocates its wners’ Allocation to its managers and to us generally in proportion to their and our respective ownership interests in that Affiliate. ne of the purposes of our revenue sharing arrangements is to provide ongoing incentives for Affiliate managers by allowing them to participate in the growth of their firm’s revenue which may increase their compensation from both the perating Allocation and the wners’ Allocation. Thesearrangements also provide incentives to control operating expenses thereby increasing the portion of the perating Allocation that is available for growth initiatives and compensation. An Affiliate’s perating Allocation is structured to cover its operating expenses.
China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial …
PR Newswire (press release)
02 China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Ltd. Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (amounts in thousands) As of December 31 As of March 31 2008 2009 2009 RMB RMB USD Current assets Cash cash equivalents and other bank deposits 1197884 1874005 274262 Held-to-maturity investment securities 641000 8000 1171 Accounts receivable net of allowance for doubtful accounts 88136 64936 9503 Prepayments for purchase of merchandise paid to related parties 70306 66366 9713 Amounts due from related parties 7244 27837 4074 Prepaid expenses deposits and other current assets 178354 138975 20339 Inventories 373689 273898 40085 Deferred income taxes 15863 15646 2290 Total current assets 2572476 2469663 361437 Non-current assets Long-term bank deposits 200000 200000 29270 Held-to -maturity investment securities 400000 400000 58540 Property and equipment net 240396 206978 30291 Deposits for purchases of properties paid to related parties 2100 — — Rental deposits 28873 28835 4220 Cost method equity investments 12638 12638 1850 Equity method investments — 16295 2385 Intangible assets 2390 1971 288 Goodwill 35177 35177 5148 Deferred income taxes 4723 2997 439 Total non-current assets 926297 904891 132431 Total assets 3498773 3374554 493868 Current liabilities Accounts payable 267250 237782 34799 Amounts due to related parties 64200 6607 967 Accrued expenses and other payables 123905 100780 14749 Dividend payable — 247908 36282 Income tax payable 35344 22216 3251 Total current liabilities 490699 615293 90048 Non-current liabilities Deferred income 14992 20185 2954 Deferred income taxes 10443 12400 1815 Total non-current liabilities 25435 32585 4769 Total liabilities 516134 647878 94817 Minority interests 23165 — — Shareholders’ equity Share capital 165 164 24 Additional paid-in capital 2823668 2663518 389808 Accumulated other comprehensive loss (38009) (37750) (5525) Retained earnings 173650 100744 14744 Total shareholders’ equity 2959474 2726676 399051 Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity 3498773 3374554 493868 China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Ltd. Pro Forma Key Financials (amounts in thousands) Three-month period ended March 31 2008 RMB Revenue 451334 Gross profit 229048 Gross Margin 50. 7% Income from operations 33727 perating Margin 7. 5% Net income 54900 Net Margin 12.