CSBJ Daily

Bloomberg News reported today that several national newspaper chains, including Denver-based Media News Group, which publishes the Denver Post, may be close to default on “billions of dollars” of debt.
Bloomberg noted that newspapers are selling today for about six times earnings. This is below the 11.5 times earnings that MediaNews and […]

In what is yet another sign of the wireless times, AT&T Inc. said yesterday that it plans to leave the pay phone business by the end of next year.
AT&T representatives said pay phone use has been shrinking as the prominence and ease of attaining cell phones has grown.
Pay phones in the United States have declined […]

My column in last Friday’s CSBJ seems to have caused some healthy discourse. The CEO of some company that I have never met at the dozens of community functions I attend every month says I should get involved in the community. You think?
While the emails are coming in spouting all the good things the C.S. […]

Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra Executive Director Susan Greene said today she will resign her position March 31.
Tim Stack, president of the Board of Directors of the CSPO, said she’s leaving to pursue personal interests.
“It did not take me by complete surprise,” he said. ”Susan has dedicated most of her waking hours for 5 years to […]

COPPeR, the nonprofit Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, has hired Bettina Swigger as its first executive director.
She starts the job Jan. 3.
Swigger has managed the Summer Arts Festival at Colorado College for three years and also has worked as the administrator for the citywide Mozart @ 250 celebration, a freelance arts journalist and […]

A premier party for a Trading Spaces television episode filmed in Colorado Springs this summer is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at Will’s Sports Pub & Grill, 424 S. Nevada Ave.
The episode will be televised at the party from 8 to 9 p.m.
The episode features local residents and roller derby skaters Karma Getcha of the […]

Today’s New York Times features a travel story about Manitou Springs – and what distinguishes it from neighboring Colorado Springs.
Manitou is described as a jewel box of a village. Colorado Springs is described as a sprawling, chain-stored center of conservative evangelical Christianity.
Manitou is a place where ill people find healing from its mineral springs. Colorado […]

The national media have begun to weigh in on the possibility that the United States Olympic Committee might leave Colorado Springs – and at least one reporter has some discouraging words.
NBC Sports reporter Alan Abrahamson wrote yesterday there’s a real chance the USOC could be leaving Colorado Springs.
“There’s considerable sense in running a high-performance training […]

Falcon Broadband has signed an exclusive deal to provide TV and Internet services to the 24,000-acre Banning Lewis Ranch development.
Banning Lewis management has selected Falcon Broadband to provide entertainment and communications services to Northtree and future neighborhoods at Banning Lewis Ranch.
Falcon Broadband will deliver using a fiber optic network.
“This is an important milestone for us,” […]

We have a TV in our office that’s tuned to CNN all day. I recently caught myself yelling at it that “Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan are not news.” I could really care less that the celebrity of the week got a DUI or was going to rehab.
Well, it turns out the general public feels […]