Media

AT&T announced that it has completed its acquisition of Centennial Communications Corp. The acquisition enhances AT&T’s network coverage across the Midwest and Southeast United States and in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Fox Sports en Espanol and PokerStars.net recently announced the first-ever Spanish-language U.S. broadcast of a Latin American poker event.

Measuring the US mobile audience may sound simple enough, but as it turns out, many researchers count active mobile subscriptions, not the actual number of people with a mobile device.

When is a phone not a phone? In the hands of children and tweens, today’s cell phones are primarily used as text messaging devices, cameras, gaming consoles, video viewers, MP3 players, and incidentally, as mobile phones via the speaker capability so their friends can chime in on the call. Parents are getting dialed in to the social media phenomenon and beginning to understand—and limit—how children use new media.

Minority radio ownership has remained virtually unchanged since 2007 even as the number of FCC-licensed stations has increased, according to a study released by the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC). Download report here.

In this new phase of its brand evolution, Telemundo reaffirms its mission to enrich the lives of Hispanics in the U.S. and audiences worldwide by informing, empowering, inspiring and entertaining them through innovative and culturally relevant content across multiple platforms. Anchored on robust consumer research and insights, the new brand identity solidifies Telemundo’s position as the media company for people who “Quieren Más” (Want More).

Despite the slowing growth of Twitter after its explosion earlier in 2009, many users still cannot get enough. Crowd Science reports that in August 2009, although only 27% of Twitter users posted daily, 46% checked for updates every day. Almost one in five social media users reported using Twitter in the past week.