As someone who struggled with stuttering early in life, public speaking coach Rosemary Ravinal learned that the road to becoming a confident communicator is rarely straight or smooth. As she celebrates another trip around the sun, Ravinal presents a few things she wish someone had told her about public speaking earlier in her career.
Public Media Infrastructure (PMI) today selected a digital and technology veteran as the organization’s first Chief Technology Officer.
In this role, Dave Williams is being asked to drive the organization's mission "to move public media toward a shared, scalable digital infrastructure built with the needs of local stations at the center."
The WNET Group, which serves as the parent company of PBS flagship WNET-13 in Newark, N.J., has selected a VP of Distribution and New Revenue. He's already on the job, and has been tasked with unifying programming, rights and clearances, research, and distribution goals.
It offers "New Hit Country" to a portion of Illinois due southeast of Dubuque, Iowa, and to the northeast of the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa. Soon, it will be under new ownership, as Beaver Miller has opted to sell this Class B1 facility.
In July 2023, she was named GSM of Gray Media-owned WSAW-7 in Wausau, Wisc., building on her experience as an Account Executive and Regional Sales Manager for the station. Now, she's been named General Manager of a group of radio stations serving the largest city in Grant County, Wisc..
Can radio and TV reverse the dollar-shift away from digital platforms, in particular with some of the advertising categories that can thrive outside of a search engine-driven consumer attraction mechanism? That was one key question covered by Borrell Associates' Corey Elliott and Gordon Borrell in a Wednesday webinar.
At the end of November, Rob Elmore will conclude his tenure as General Manager of the ABC Owned Television Stations property serving the Triangle region of North Carolina. The individual chosen to take the reins for "ABC11" has just been revealed.
What's next for broadcast media ... especially as several radio companies fell short with their political revenue expectations? A Forecast 2027 session kicking off the November 12 affair at the Harvard Club of the City of New York is designed to provide all of the insights necessary to steer clear of the icebergs.
It's a promotion from within at the publicly traded broadcast television station ownership group under a radical transformation driven by CEO Adam Symson, and it puts a woman with nearly two decades of experience in the newsroom in the role of Chief Technology Officer at The E.W. Scripps Co.
She shared the news of her return to public media in a social media post, reuniting her with New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) President/CEO Jim Schachter, whom she worked with at New York Public Radio. Introducing the new Chief Growth Officer at NHPR, a former iHeart Audience Network executive.
Membership has its privileges, and if you have full website access to the Radio + Television Business Report, you've just received the key to unlock the autumn edition of the quarterly media broadcasting business publication known for its exclusive conversations, unique insight and straightforward stories on new technologies, each hand-crafted and designed to help your team create and development long-term growth opportunities that will make you thrive.
As RBR+TVBR first reported on Monday, iHeartMedia suffered an $8 million quarterly loss in Q3 2026. One culprit was lower-than-anticipated political advertising revenue. That seems to be a sore spot with the company's shareholders, sending shares southward on Tuesday. Meanwhile, "TSQ" has also shrunk in value.
The future of "Lightning 100" is in question for listeners of this heritage Nashville station, as its longtime owner has just sold it. The buyer? It is a globally famous entertainer known for his friends in low places. For longtime listeners, the "Lightning" brand will be on the move. And, it could bring a bigger audience.
"Yes." That was the one-word response to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz's query to Trump FCC Commissioner nominee Danielle Thumann Severs regarding how she feels about "weaponization" of the Commission by political influence.
Over roughly 75 minutes — following a 45-minute delay — there were plenty of verbal protests from Democrats over the very nature of Danielle Thumann Severs' consideration to serve as a Commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission. Key Democratic leaders were absent.
The Executive VP and Chief Financial Officer of Sinclair Inc. has agreed to participate in a pair of institutional investor conferences on the calendar for early December. One event is in tony Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. — one week after he spends time at The Boca Raton in Palm Beach County, Fla.
Upon review of the Q3 2026 earnings reports filed by publicly traded broadcast media companies, it's abundantly clear that political advertising gravitated heavily toward TV. That impacted the nation's largest media company superserving African American consumers, among a host of other continuing challenges.
There's a new product feature for the iHeartRadio app now activated that has been designed to give users the ability to "simply and quickly" toggle back and forth between full-function mode and the "just essentials" Lite Mode found on the live and on-demand audio app — — depending on their usage and needs at any time.
Vizrt has announced that it has built a proof-of-concept integration with the Story Object Model (SOM), an open standard for story context in content production that was first shown at IBC 2026 as part of the Smart Stories Accelerator project.
While the whole of South Florida is today a ribbon of flags and voices representing all of Latin America, Cuban Americans remain a vital part of the political and economic engine that is El Gran Miami. That could explain why an individual who has spoken out against loosening the 39% national broadcast TV ownership reach cap has decided to acquire two of the most historically important radio stations to Cubans outside of Cuba.
