Beasley Media Group is welcoming a new Vice President of Human Resources, and it is an individual who previously served as a Senior Human Resources Executive at Procter & Gamble. Bill Sontag “brings extensive experience and a proven track record in human resources leadership to his new role,” Beasley said in an announcement distributed Wednesday. […]
Audacy CEO Kelli Turner, in an internal memo, notes that "to better capture opportunities, scale success, and sharpen our competitive edge," the privately held company with majority ownership held by Soros Fund Management is establishing a regionalized sales organization. The Market Manager post is being erased.
Two of the nation's largest owners of broadcast radio stations will be a bit tardy with their annual 10-K filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as each have filed for extensions — for very different reasons.
It's complicated. Yet, MediaCo President/CEO Albert Rodriguez insists the parent of Estrella Media and iconic N.Y. radio stations WBLS and WQHT "HOT 97" is in "growth mode" and will continue to be — even with a bit of a debt cloud growing greyer over the company largely backed by Standard General and Blackrock.
He's been the Chairman and President/CEO of Skyview Networks, the national radio advertising organization, since April 2019, and before that spent many years at the former ABC News Radio enterprise, starting as a News Writer in 1986. Now, he's taking on full ownership of Skyview, Streamline Publishing has confirmed.
It's a Class B radio station that's been silenced since mid-January under Special Temporary Authority with the FCC, after iHeartMedia concluded its lease of the AM and declined to acquire it. Now the licensee of this Northern Virginia facility that signed on as WAGE-AM is poised to have a new owner.
An informal objection to the license renewal of a Greenwood, Miss., radio station filed by Larry Fuss has been denied, clearing the way for the licensee to obtain that important authorization. For that to happen, however, a Consent Decree between the station owner and the Commission was signed.
Can traditional media companies afford to pay more for the NFL with the continued pressures on linear television? That vitally important question to broadcast TV station ownership groups was tackled in a new investor report by MoffettNathanson Senior Analyst Rob Fishman.
The latest retransmission consent dispute has ticked off South Florida hockey fans, in particular, as Comcast's Xfinity MVPD pulled by law all Scripps TV stations from its lineup due to the lack of a fresh carriage contract. In South Florida, this occurred during the second period of a Florida Panthers game.
He's spent his entire professional career with iHeartMedia in New York, beginning as a Promotions Assistant with WKTU-FM. Most recently, he's served as Event Director for the company's stations serving the Tri-State Area, taking the lead in bringing high-impact events and listener experiences to fruition. Those efforts have earned Andrew Festo a promotion.
It owns and operates a collection of 11 radio brands, in addition to seven broadcast TV offerings and real estate holding company Loblolly. The media properties are overseen by Craig Jahelka, a 50-year industry veteran associated with Draper Media since April 2008. A plan has now been put in place to determine Jahelka's successor.
The Major League Baseball team based in the Tampa-St. Petersburg market that intends to stay there, once a new stadium agreement is finally reached, can celebrate another agreement of importance — it now has a limited over-the-air broadcast agreement in place with Hearst Television.
The Best Finance Leaders will be revealed in RBR+TVBR’s Summer 2026 Special Report, and we're accepting reader nominations through Friday. The RBR+TVBR Broadcast Best Finance Leaders list shines a spotlight on the individuals focused on finance, the stewards behind the plans designed for success—and profits.
The average global consumer spent 8.24 hours per day with media in 2025, up from 7.62 hours in 2020, as ad-supported media accounted for 52.7% of time spent in 2025, down from a 55.5% share in 2020.
Listeners in Lawrence and Beaver County, Pa., who seek a little more light from Christ in their audio programming will soon have a new choice to go to, thanks to a deal that sees Family Life acquire an FM from Lynn Deppen in a transaction brokered by Michael J. Bergner.
Two of the most powerful Members of the U.S. Senate have written to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr seeking answers to Commission inconsistency when it comes to resolving significant transactions at the staff level. It throws another wrench into the machinations that allowed Nexstar to merge with TEGNA.
A reborn Miami event under the NATPE Global name debuted in January 2024 at the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Miami under new owner Brunico Communications. Now, Brunico is pulling the plug on the annual affair. Why? Brunico cites a changing business climate, rather than any internal fiscal woes.
With no comment, The E.W. Scripps Co. confirmed that it has completed the sale of WRTV-6 in Indianapolis. The deal was approved on February 27 by the FCC's Media Bureau with the grant of waivers of its local ownership rules.
A District of Columbia District Court Judge has ruled against Donald J. Trump for his signing on May 1, 2025, of Executive Order 14290, which ended "taxpayer subsidization of biased media" by ending federal funding of both NPR and PBS by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting or any government agency.
DirecTV sought to squash it, but failed. The longtime LMA of Jacksonville's CBS affiliate by Cox Media Group will soon end, with CMG acquiring the station outright and forming an official duopoly. The deal comes as the "Top Four" prohibition rule no longer exists, per an Eighth Circuit federal appeals court ruling.
