Educational Opportunities

Distance Learning Telephone Seminar
Detecting and Investigating Occupational Fraud
It’s What You Do Next That Counts

When: Tuesday, January 26
Time: 3:30pm - 4:45pm Eastern
Cost: $74 members; $94 non-members
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MEDIA FINANCE FOCUS 2010
Refocus...Revitalize...Rebuild: Roadmap to Success

50th Annual Conference
May 23 -25, 2010
The Renissance Hotel - Nashville, TN

What you will hear:

• Newspaper/Publishers transition into paid content
• Using social networking as a business tool
• Independent Contractor issues and audits
• Motivating and keeping employees as the economy recovers
• Accounting for deals with multiple elements
• Impairment, Valuation and Downsizing
• Credit and Collections in an unstable economy
• and many, many more hot issues...

Also...CPE available all sessions, multiple networking opportunities,Expo with key suppliers, social events, topical roundtables...
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Educational Opportunities

DISTANCE LEARNING TELEPHONE SEMINAR
What You Don't Know Might Cost You
When: Thursday, October 22
Time: 3:30pm - 4:45pm Eastern
CPE: 1.5 units
[more details and registration]



Mark Your Calendar:

MFM/BCCA Regional Seminar
Media Outlook for 2010
November 17, 2009
McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Bldg.
New York, NY
CPE: up to 7 units
[Details and registration]


MFM/BCCA 50th Annual Conference
Refocus...Revitalize...Rebuild: Roadmap to Success
May 23 -25, 2010
The Renissance Hotel - Nashville, TN
[Details]

MFM & INFE Combine to form one organization

We are very pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached between INFE (Interactive and Newsmedia Financial Executives) and MFM (Media Financial Management Association) that will combine the organizations into one under MFM's leadership. With the ongoing convergence of media, we believe this will provide a very powerful, collaborative, and educational base to our members. Both organizations have well respected brands in the industry, as INFE and MFM have been successfully serving their members in the newspaper, broadcast and cable industries for over 61 and 49 years, respectively...go to http://www.mediafinance.org/index.aspx?PageID=507 to read more.

FTC Announces Expanded Business Education Campaign on 'Red Flags' Rule

To assist small businesses and other entities, the Federal Trade Commission staff will redouble its efforts to educate them about compliance with the "Red Flags" Rule and ease compliance by providing additional resources and guidance to clarify whether businesses are covered by the Rule and what they must do to comply. To give creditors and financial institutions more time to review this guidance and develop and implement written Identity Theft Prevention Programs, the FTC will further delay enforcement of the Rule until November 1, 2009.... read more

Upcoming Events...

Mark Your Calendar:

MFM/BCCA 50th Annual Conference
May 23 -25, 2010
The Renissance Hotel - Nashville, TN
[more details at www.mediafinance.org (under conference)]

MFM Upcoming Events

Sale/Leasebacks of Towers and Hidden Transmitter Site Costs –
Maximizing the Value and Minimizing the Cost of Transmitter/Tower Site Operations

When: Thursday, August 20
Time: 3:30pm – 4:45pm Eastern (New Time)
Cost: $74 Members; $94 Non-Members
CPE: Up to 1.5
[Field of Study: SKA; Level: Overview; No course prerequisites or advance preparation required]

Speakers: Dan Johnson, Kirkland, Russ, Murphy & Tapp; Dale West, Richland Towers; Erwin Krasnow, Garvey Schubert Barer

To Register: www.mediafinance.org (under seminars -> distance learning)

2009 Conference Highlights

2009 Conference Highlights – The topics and trends to build your knowledge

Accounting: GAAP Conversions, Collaborative Arrangements, Online Digital Media, Valuation – FAS157, Ethics, Accounting Update.
Credit and Collections: How not to panic in current economy, Liability outsourcing, Centralization, Outsourcing and Localization of the credit process, New delivery methods, Legal – Bankruptcy and collections; Q&A session with attorney, Disaster/Emergency Recovery for credit and collections – lessons learned.
Cable: Set top box advertising, Use of purchasing cards & cost saving initiatives, Retransmission consent, Customer relations in a bad economy.
Human Resources: How to hire the best candidates, Baby Boom brain drain, Employee retention, Motivating employees, Benefits, Identity theft.
Emerging Media/IT: Games/gaming - $50 billion business, Mobile – embeddable line broadcasts (e.g. Flow TV; Moby TV), Up and coming new media, Impact of Live Logs, Target Advertising, How new media will do in a soft economy.
Radio: Strategies to weather economic downturn, PPM, 360 selling, Arbitron vs. Nielsen.
Tax: Federal legislative developments, Tax issues for field personnel & station personnel, Sales & Use taxes; and separate Media Industry Tax Track
Television: Emergency operations and business interruption plans, Internet billing, Centralization vs. Decentralization, E-Port, Impact of Digital Transition on revenues, Nextel update.
Legal: New face of the FCC & cross-ownership rules, Contest lotteries and sweepstakes and the internet – stay legal, Lawsuits/legal considerations.

Confirmed Speakers:
Michael Luckovich, Editorial Cartoonist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Dr. Robert A. Eisenbeis, Chief Monetary Economist Cumberland Advisors; and nationally syndicated radio talk show host, Neal Boortz; Ali Velshi CNN's chief business correspondent and host of Your $$$$$; Evan Tracey President, Campaign Media Analysis Group.

Register Online at: http://www.mediafinance.org/index.aspx?PageID=385 (or under annual conference -> registration form)


*** This special is open to all Conference attendees that register and pay with credit card online!