Gray Television and privately held SagamoreHill Broadcasting have gotten the regulatory approval to proceed with a plan that effectively substitutes one channel for another — twice — in a Table of TV Allotments adjustment for Lubbock, Tex.
It debuted in 2009 as part of a wholeshift away from daytime television "soap operas" to more cost-efficient chat shows. Now, CBS is preparing to wind down this series, with a finale scheduled for December 20 for hosts Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry O'Connell and Sheryl Underwood.
Tightrope Media Systems has built a reputation for consistency over its 27 years in business, anchored through a managerial structure and staff that rarely changes. That consistency is a distinction. Yet, Tightrope’s longstanding managerial structure is on the verge of change.
The nation's leading licensee of broadcast television stations has confirmed that members of its C-Suite will participate in a pair of key institutional investor conferences coming after the Thanksgiving holiday.
It has been one year since SiriusXM launched a channel curated and hosted by singer-songwriter John Mayer, and it has proven to be a smash hit with subscribers. Now, Mayer is launching an interview series featuring "intimate and extensive" conversations between the musician and some of his more notable peers.
A few years ago, an FM translator with a signal covering suburban Milwaukee was purchased by Dave and Connie Stout. Today, that facility holds a Construction Permit for a Milwaukee-based facility due south of Whitefish Bay, and that's what made it attractive enough for a nonprofit broadcast ministry to buy it.
In September 2022, a 6kw Class A “ESPN Radio” affiliate at 96.5 MHz in Parker’s Crossroads, Tenn., was sold by Crossroads Broadcasting to News Talk West Tennessee LLC in a deal valued at $500,000. Two years later, the FM that reaches Lexington and Huntingdon, Tenn. due northeast of Jackson, Tenn., has run out of time due to fiscal challenges.
A Class A FM serving small agricultural communities in Georgia that have attracted first-generation Hispanics has been targeting this immigrant community with regional Mexican programming as "El Gallo" under a lease management agreement with its owner. Now, this LMA is being converted into an outright purchase.
Can we disagree and still love each other at Thanksgiving? For public speaking coach and veteran PR professional Rosemary Ravinal, the answer is yes. "If you decide to share the holiday table with people with whom you deeply disagree, it’s worth following some ground rules of diplomacy and civility," she shares in this column.
According to a new analysis based on latest advertising spend data from 100 markets worldwide, plus projections of advertising investment patterns based on more than 2 million data points, some 22.1% of dollars spent on ads outside of China is paid to Google.
The CEO, CFO and EVP of Investor Relations at NYSE-traded radio station owner and digital local media company Townsquare Media will be participating in two key upcoming institutional investor affairs in Boca Raton, Fla., following the Thanksgiving Day holiday.
Starting December 2, the ABC and CW affiliates serving Western Tennessee will have a new News Director. And it is a news veteran who was previously Managing Director of "CNTV" in Central Florida.
John Fredericks, the Virginia-based conservative talk show host whose show can be heard on stations across the south and in the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, markets, is growing his regional radio station stable by agreeing to purchase a group of West Virginia properties.
A Class C3 FM presently home to a Classic Country format simulcast on W262AG, explaining the "JAX Country 100.3" branding, is being sold. When the deal is done, the buyer will have no less than six brands superserving Spanish-speaking and Latino audiences in the Jacksonville market.
It presents itself as a faith-based network dedicated to spreading the word of Christ in an omnichannel way across the globe. Founded by Marcus Lamb in 1993, Daystar TV is now dealing with an ugly family feud of sorts — one that involves allegations of abuse from the founder's son, who has been ousted from the organization as a result of his claims.
In a move that the Comcast unit believes will "revolutionize live sports coverage," NBCUniversal has teamed up with Walmart to launch a new shoppable experiences opportunity that brings unique measurement capabilities to the owner of the Peacock OTT platform, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, and NBC Owned Stations.
The owner of "Hot 97" and WBLS in New York has officially paid Emmis Communications for its stake in what is publicly traded MediaCo Holding Co., controlled by Standard Media — the entity that failed to acquire TEGNA that is led by Soohyung Kim.
The Program Director and afternoon host on "Eagle 98.1" in Baton Rouge has earned a promotion. Introducing the new Operations Manager for Guaranty Media's group of radio stations in the Louisiana state capital of Baton Rouge.
Accessible emergency information requirements are at the heart of a waiver extension request that has been made alongside a Petition for Rulemaking submitted by the NAB with the FCC, an action designed to clarify rules pertaining to aural representations of visual, non-textual content such as radar maps and other graphics on a secondary audio channel.
Canadian regulatory policy regarding AM/FM "radio processes" have been under fire from fiscally challenged publicly traded companies that have been selling properties or, in some cases, shutting down stations altogether. It now appears the CRTC is ready to consider a "modernization of radio processes."
