August 10, 2012
Scott OlsonPopular meteorologist Angela Buchman has left WISH-TV Channel 8 as expected and is likely to be off the air for a year until
she joins competitor WTHR-TV Channel 13, according to several local broadcast television sources.
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August 4, 2012
Cory SchoutenLocal real estate pros say finding a reuse for the Indianapolis Star's HQ will be tricky. The newspaper is selling
its labyrinth of buildings at 307 N. Pennsylvania St., which have multiple floor levels, narrow hallways and a basement built
to house printing presses.
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August 4, 2012
Anthony SchoettleChicago tourism officials earlier this year unleashed a major advertising campaign that threatens to encroach on one of Indianapolis’
primary leisure travel segments. The Second City for the first time ever is marketing itself to other cities in the Midwest,
such as St. Louis and Cincinnati, that are key targets for Indianapolis.
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August 4, 2012
Dan HumanSherry Seiwert, former executive director of the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority, begins Aug. 6 as president
of Indianapolis Downtown Inc., the group that charges itself with developing, maintaining and promoting the heart of the city.
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August 1, 2012
Bloomberg NewsEmmis Communications Corp. told a U.S. judge it will delay a scheduled Aug. 14 shareholder vote that could wipe out $34 million
in unpaid preferred stockholder dividends until after she rules on a bid to block the balloting.
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July 31, 2012
IBJ Staff and Bloomberg NewsInvestors asked U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker in Indianapolis for an order blocking a special meeting at which Emmis
shareholders will be asked to approve bylaw changes wiping out more than $34 million in accrued and unpaid preferred stock
dividends.
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July 27, 2012
Anthony SchoettleThe Indianapolis Star plans to sell its headquarters building at 307 N. Pennsylvania St. and seek modern office space
elsewhere downtown, the newspaper said Friday afternoon.
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July 26, 2012
IBJ StaffAngie's List Inc. saw revenue jump 74 percent in the second quarter, but the Indianapolis-based contractor-ratings service
continued to see growing losses as the result of higher marketing expenses. The company's stock fell more than 10 percent
Thursday.
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July 21, 2012
Anthony SchoettleAfter more than 10 years of providing free online content, the Indianapolis Star is laying the foundation for a pay-per-view
system that would cost online-only readers about $13 a month, industry sources said.
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July 21, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinThe $791 million Hoosier Lottery threw open bidding July 11 for a 10-year contract on marketing, sales and distribution services.
The lottery wants to be among the fastest-growing in the country, and it’s looking to the gambling industry to help
it reach that goal.
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July 19, 2012
London-based Pearson Plc has purchased Bloomington-based self publisher Author Solutions Inc., which has about 400 employees,
most of whom are in Indiana, and had revenue in 2011 of $100 million.
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July 12, 2012
The Indianapolis-based media company reported a larger loss on falling revenue in its fiscal first quarter, mostly due to
the sale of a group of radio stations and cheaper advertising rates.
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July 3, 2012
Anthony SchoettleIndyCar Series officials have approached two of its existing sponsors, Verizon Wireless and Firestone, about becoming the
open-wheel race series’ presenting sponsor, a deal motorsports business experts said could be worth $3 million annually.
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June 30, 2012
Anthony SchoettleBrandWidth puts legal scuffle behind it, emerges to nab several national accounts.
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June 30, 2012
Greg AndrewsJeff Smulyan has been considering a new plan to buy out other Emmis Communications Corp. shareholders—a deal that could
clear the way for him to finally take the Indianapolis media company private. But Emmis’ founder and CEO insists he
has no plans to do so.
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June 30, 2012
Anthony SchoettleAfter more than two decades as one of the Indianapolis market’s top ratings- and revenue-generators, country radio station
WFMS-FM 95.5 is getting some serious competition from relative newcomer WLHK-FM 97.1—popularly known as Hank.
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June 26, 2012
Scott OlsonThe interactive virtual tour gives customers a glimpse of the layout and decor of a business without setting foot inside the
location. For St. Elmo Steak House, where the service was introduced locally, it was an easy sell.
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June 25, 2012
IBJ StaffIBJ's awards included a gold for the Health Care & Reform newsletter and a bronze for best website.
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June 25, 2012
The webcast will be recorded in the Channel 13 studios and will provide news updates, weather and sports in Spanish each weekday.
It will be co-anchored by Marco Dominguez and Rossina Lazaneo.
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June 24, 2012
Associated PressThe ACLU has said it will appeal a federal judge's decision to uphold an Indiana law that bans registered sex offenders from
accessing Facebook and other social networking sites used by children.
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June 23, 2012
Anthony SchoettleFour-person shop opening office downtown got its start at Flagship Enterprise incubator.
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June 19, 2012
Associated PressHerff Jones Inc. of Indianapolis has decided to close a yearbook manufacturing plant that employs 130 people in Matthews,
N.C., by the end of the year.
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June 16, 2012
Anthony SchoettleStung by a 2-14 season and the departure of star quarterback Peyton Manning, the Indianapolis Colts this month hired Get Real
Sports Sales and six summer interns to help sell 3,000 season tickets that weren’t moving.
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June 16, 2012
Chris O'MalleyCompendium Software says there’s money to be made in creating a place where marketing content can be centralized and
repurposed and sent out via e-mail newsletters, social media channels and—of course—blogs.
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June 15, 2012
Scott OlsonWTHR led in the ratings for its nightly newscasts during the May sweeps in the key 25-to-54-year-old demographic, but TV stations
are rapidly losing these coveted viewers. The addition of popular meteorologist Angela Buchman could help Channel 13 staunch
further losses.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.