A 44-year career in broadcasting is coming to a close for Jim McKernan, who is retiring as the GM of the NBC affiliate in Omaha owned by Gray Media. We now know who is succeeding him, and who will be filling that person's role once she settles in at WOWT-TV.
A new study reveals that the radio audience doesn’t just overlap with podcast listeners – it often outperforms other platforms entirely, making AM/FM one of podcasting’s most engaged and loyal pipelines for fan growth, monetization, and audience retention.
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has announced the results of the 2025 NAB Radio and Television Board of Directors elections. The two-year terms of the elected board members will begin in June 2025.
The latest Media Monitors Spot Ten TV report is out, and once again a big pharmaceutical brand is tops, based on play count.
Taking the silver crown is one of the nation's largest accident and injury specialty law firms.
A rule that requires TV broadcasters to provide an aural representation of visual, non-textual emergency information that is displayed during non-newscast programming, such as radar maps or other graphics, on a secondary audio stream will not be enforced for another year. And, it's a move the FCC itself acted on.
For fifteen years, the Hispanic Radio Conference has proudly and deliberately centered itself around Spanish-language broadcasters and Hispanic audiences, yet its sessions also tackle universal radio concerns. This year's event is no exception. Here is what's in store.
The honor will be awarded during the 2025 Celebration of Service to America Awards, presented by Bonneville International and Hearst Television, on June 10 at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. The event will also honor the essential role that local TV and radio broadcasters play during times of emergency.
Urban One, the media company superserving African Americans through radio and cable television properties, has released first quarter results its CEO, Alfred Liggins III, says "were broadly in line with expectations." But, were those expectations positive? Hardly, and Digital growth was absent.
From Des Moines and Davenport, Iowa to Dayton, Ohio, those who wish to follow the WNBA team that's home to collegiate superstar Caitlin Clark can tune to free-to-air channels in their respective market, thanks to an expanded broadcast partnership announced on Tuesday by TEGNA.
He joined Beasley Media Group in 1991 and presently runs its Augusta, Ga., radio stations as President and Market Manager. Come June 6, he'll be celebrating his last day on job, with retirement his next adventure.
Madhive, known for its unified operating system used by local media organizations across the U.S., is introducing what it calls "the first intelligence layer designed specifically to accelerate and optimize every step of an advertising campaign from pitch to payment."
Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS), a provider of large-scale multi-modal AI for video understanding, has forged a strategic partnership with digital asset management platform Orange Logic. The team-up "aims to significantly enhance how organizations manage and utilize their video content."
“We are pleased with our Q1 results given the uncertain environment in which we are operating now, and we think these results demonstrate the resilience and relevance of our products and the tremendous growth opportunity we have with our podcast business in particular.” That's what Bob Pittman had to say.
It's a city above Las Vegas in the shadow of Mt. Charleston made known by fans of the late overnight talk host Art Bell. Here, the Jim Loftus-led Times-Shamrock affiliated Shamrock Communications owns a Class C3 FM branded as "ACE Country." Soon, that relationship will change, as a sale of the station is in the works.
Cynthia Cano has moved forward with her purchase of a Class D AM radio station with an FM Translator serving a popular town along Lake Michigan known for its aquatic and beach activities. What does this mean for the facilities?
In the recent past, under different leadership, it was one of the most prolific acquisitors of low-power television stations in the U.S. Now, HC2 Broadcasting has taken a lead role in the propagation of 5G Broadcast technology in the U.S. Perhaps that is why it has agreed to purchase a LPTV property in Texas.
The Chairman of the House E&C Committee is readying for a full markup of budget reconciliation text scheduled for Tuesday afternoon that would go a long way toward bringing spectrum auction authorization back to the FCC. But, the spectrum being authorized for auction doesn’t include broadcast TV spectrum.
In 2009, a group of radio stations serving a Texas city were sold by Simmons Media. They include an expanded-band AM, a Class D sibling, a Class A FM and an FM translator fueling the Sports Talk station on the kHz band. Today, these stations face an uncertain future, as the licensee is a debtor-in-possession.
One of the two stations in Nebraska's biggest market that John Hannon will lead is today operated via an LMA agreement between its owner and Sinclair Inc. This will soon change, as Sinclair is moving forward with buying the property outright, creating a duopoly.
As RBR+TVBR first reported on Monday, Sinclair Inc. has agreed to acquire a LMA partner that serves as the ATSC 3.0 lighthouse for the Omaha-Council Bluffs market outright, creating a duopoly. To the east, Sinclair has engineered a similar LMA-to-purchase deal, creating a duopoly in a second Hawkeye State DMA.
