Radio+Television Business Report

The Cumulus Media-owned conservative-leaning spoken word FM serving the National Capital Area has selected its next Operations Manager. And he'll be taking the role after moving from California, starting May 4.

The goal is to reduce the need to switch between tools and allow editors to build a first pass of sound design as they cut picture. Introducing the newest product from Krotos, which enables editors to access the media technology company's "Video to Sound" technology directly within the timeline.

A 15-page petition, from no less than twelve attorneys representing DirecTV, comes as TEGNA stations spent the last several days restoring their familiar logo to newscasts and websites, as TEGNA Inc. is effectively a subsidiary of Nexstar until the courts decide what's next.

The CEO of a major American automaker publicly suggested cutting all radio from entry-level vehicles at the 2026 New York International Auto Show this past week, raising fresh alarms for broadcasters still waiting on Congress to act on saving the AM band, let alone FM.

With peers announcing when they will release their Q1 2026 financial results, the company led by CEO Caroline Beasley is gearing up for the release of its fiscal 2025 Profit & Loss report. What can investors including Mario Gabelli expect to hear from the company?

With the 2026 NAB Show set to begin at the Las Vegas Convention Center on April 19, BARIX is preparing to place a spotlight on its latest professional Instreamer and Exstreamer devices for Audio over IP transport across broadcast and media networks.

With the close of the first quarter of 2026, spot television enjoyed an infusion of advertising from three big pharmaceutical brands — demonstrating the preference among marketers of the media when compared to Radio or Spot Cable.

In June 2025, a 50/50 partnership between veteran Washington, D.C., communications attorney Arthur Belendiuk and John J. Fuller came to an end via a $100,000 stock transfer agreement. Now Fuller's company in full, Impact Radio is moving forward with the sale of an FM serving the Burlington, Vt., market.

Orban Labs and Quu Inc., bringing visual content to broadcast radio in the connected car, have brought to market a strategic integration — just in time for the 2026 NAB Show.

The digital migration is already here, and Hispanic radio stations are no different in that those which figure out how to extend their brands across platforms will be the ones that thrive. That's the mission of "Digital Platforms for Hispanic Radio Stations" at Radio Ink's Hispanic Radio Conference 2026.

With the release of its Q4 2025 fiscal results in late February, Sinclair Inc. offered no first quarter 2026 guidance. But, all will become known to investors and Wall Street watchdogs by the end of the month, the TV station ownership group and Dielectric parent shared on Monday.

Grab your coffee and favorite breakfast biscuit and set your alarms for an early rise on Monday, May 11. Why? The C-Suite at Townsquare Media will once again present its quarterly earnings results bright and early to start the week. 

It withstood the 1987 stock market crash just months after its March debut that year. In 1996 it became a sibling to Boston's main Classical radio station. Now, "Something Finer" is poised to yield way to the Good Book, if you will — the nation's largest Christian Contemporary Music network is coming.

The Best Finance Leaders will be revealed in RBR+TVBR’s Summer 2026 Special Report, and we're accepting reader nominations through the end of Friday, April 3. 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.

Triton Digital, the digital audio ad tech company acquired by iHeartMedia in 2021, has a new contract in place that gives NBC Sports advanced hosting, monetization, audience measurement, and audience insight tools to support and scale its growing podcast and digital audio portfolio.

The president's FY 2027 budget has been released, and it includes no dollars for local public television stations — even after a loss in a D.C. district court this week for his Executive Order which ended “taxpayer subsidization of biased media” by ending federal funding of both NPR and PBS. APTS's head responded.

On March 27, Members of Congress wrote to the FCC seeking a firm transition deadline for full-power broadcasters to complete their transition to ATSC 3.0, which powers NEXTGEN TV signals. The association founded by "SuperFrank" Copsidas has responded, and makes it clear that low-power stations should be exempted.

Car dealerships, grocery stores, and big retailers were once the underpinnings of local advertising. But that's changed, leaving media companies and ad agencies scrambling to find new clients. What has changed and what business will be fueling the growth through 2029 was the focus on a webinar conducted Friday by Borrell Associates

Watching the National League MLB team that plays its home games a stone's throw away from NAB Headquarters in the Nation's Capital is getting a little easier, thanks to the FOX Television Stations property serving the sprawling Washington DMA — and Gray Media properties in surrounding DMAs.

FOX Television Stations' WTXF-29 in Philadelphia — is celebrating 30 years of waking up the region. On Wednesday, that saw a black tie gala attract a wide variety of local personalities, brought to viewers in a 60-minute special broadcast.