Media General: Lower Broadcast, Uptick In Local Sales
But looking at non-political advertisers, local advertising sales grew 15% to $25.5 million; national spot climbed by a similar 15% rise to $14.4 million.
Broadcast revenues were off almost 17% to $41.7 million. Political revenues were some $17.5 million less overall for the company. Media General had some $21 million in political revenues for the same period in 2006. Gross broadcast advertising sales dropped 22% during the period.
Local sales witnessed improved revenues from automotive, services, grocery store and fast-food companies. Local telecommunications advertising was lower during the period. But that wasn't the case for national sales of telecommunications advertising--which rose, as did the automotive and entertainment categories.
Year-to-date, Media General's gross advertising sales have improved by 11% to $326 million.
Newspapers witnessed an 11% drop to $43.4 million, with more than 90% of the decline due to problems in its Tampa market. In other advertising categories--in three of the companies' big metro markets--real-estate revenues were down 34.7%, employment ads were off 21.4%, and automotive revenues sank 27.8%.
Interactive was one of the few bright spots, with revenue gaining 27.3% in October from the advertising gaming business, as well as revenues from the Yahoo HotJobs employment initiative.
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