DRG Media has named a new General Manager and Director of Sales and Operations at the South Dakota-based radio broadcasting company. He'll now oversee seven stations after five years as Director of Sales and Campaign Development at Riverfront Broadcasting in Rapid City.
It is a Class C2 FM serving a big college town with a cavalcade of community programming that on Friday ranged from a pre-Shabbat Jewish Spectrum hour to a two-hour sunset block dedicated to the Grateful Dead. It now serves Columbia, Mo., a little clearer thanks to the successful deployment of a new transmitter.
Hawaii's new official identification cards didn't pass muster with a pair of Pacific Media Group air personalities at one of its Honolulu radio stations. The result? More than 6,000 signatures have been placed on a Change.org petition they started begging for reconsideration. Honolulu's Mayor says no — so far.
He first attracted a loyal audience at "62 KGW," which aired a Top 40 format until the rise of FM radio stations in the 1980s. He'd go on to a fruitful tenure at "K103," today an iHeartMedia-owned AC stalwart in the local ratings. Now, many are mourning the loss of Craig Walker, who died suddenly on Wednesday.
On July 22, the FCC moved ahead with rules establishing the auction of 160 MHz of spectrum in the Upper C-Band by July of next year. A 35-year-old Space Coast broadcast technology company is at the ready to help radio and TV companies navigate what is shaping up to be one of the most complex media transport transitions to date.
“With entries from over 40 countries, New York Festivals TV & Film Awards honors the exceptional and innovative content being created today on all continents and seen across all platforms," said EVP Rose Anderson. "We respect the achievements of the many talented men and women who make up the worldwide creative community."
As 2023 came to close, the purchase of KBSZ-AM 1260 in Apache Junction, Ariz., and K247CF at 97.3 MHz in Payson, Ariz., by William Tucker Jr.-led WOOK Radio DC Inc. was completed. Now, Tucker has struck a deal to purchase an AM radio station and its FM translator a little closer to the District of Columbia.
Unlike the shift of CBS network affiliations from a host of Nexstar-owned stations to the digital multicast signals associated with stations owned by Forum Communications and Hearst Television, respectively, Gray will place ABC on a DT1 signal. It's presently home to Gray's "Matrix Midwest" Sports offering.
With shares down from nearly $41 CDN per share in early March, stockholders may be pleased in knowing Rogers' Q2 earnings report surpassed the forecasts of Zacks. Still, Rogers Sports + Media continues to face Canadian criticism for its July 7 plug-pulling of every all-News radio station it operated outside of Toronto.
Araceli Martínez-Olguín, the U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of California, has extended a Temporary Restraining Order designed to pause the pending merger of CBS News & Stations parent Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery by an additional two weeks.
A Class A Radio station that aired a Classic Hits format and served as a "Big" choice for those in Norwich, Groton and New London, Conn., has become the latest station to adopt a Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) noncommercial radio format now found in nearly every market in the U.S.
It wasn't the home for play-by-play action of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which saw matches air on Telemundo. And, those matches aired during the third quarter. Yet, TelevisaUnivision CEO Daniel Alegre says the "solid" Q2 2026 results seen by the company operating in the U.S. and Mexico were driven "by the record-breaking success of our FIFA World Cup coverage.”
The proposed acquisition of two FM radio stations serving Lexington-Fayette, Ky., by Lynn Martin through L.M. Communications, would exceed local ownership subcap rules for the market, as L.M. already owns four FMs in the market. Martin is betting that a modernization-minded Commission will allow it.
It was the subject of industry rumors that began on Friday. Now, RBR+TVBR has learned that a group of CBS affiliates associated with Nexstar Media Group are losing the network come August 1, with two-year agreements in place with two companies it competes with across the impacted markets.
He was born and raised in San Juan, and in 1993 started his career at WLDI "Oldies 94.7" — a short-lived attempt to bring mainland hits from the late 1950s through the early 1970s with a Spanish-language presentation. Today, he's VP/GM of SBS's stations in Orlando and Tampa and is adding duties in Puerto Rico, too.
A reorganization of the programming operations associated with Connoisseur Media's West Coast properties has taken place, following the shift of "Bay Country" to KUFX-FM in San Jose. "The reorganization strengthens the company's Bay Area and Portland operations while continuing its focus on strong local programming," the company says.
The nation's largest creator and distributor of audio content will release its second quarter earnings results following the close of U.S. financial markets on the second Monday in August. What's the outlook for iHeartMedia as CFO Mike McGuinness puts the finishing touches on the company's fiscal report card?
You may not be familiar with the brand, because you live in the U.S. Elsewhere, BYD has built itself a reputation as a go-to brand for electric vehicles manufactured in China. Thanks to a just-minted deal with Xperi Inc., all BYD vehicles will make Xperi's in-car media platform an exclusive choice across all models and trims.
For those in Cleveland that have access to NEXTGEN TV signals via a TV set equipped with the tools needed to receive the ATSC 3.0-powered digital transmissions or recently introduced dongle devices bringing richer picture and better sound without streaming and internet bills, Nexstar Media Group is now delivering content you may wish to tune to.
The President/CEO of the newly opened Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, N.D., has been selected by the Board of Trustees of WNET to succeed Neal Shapiro at the entity that oversees key PBS and NPR homes in the New York Tri-State Area. He'll take the role on September 21.
