Radio+Television Business Report

It may be December 16, and a Tuesday, but that didn't stop Howard Stern from making it his last fresh show of the year. And, the more-than $100 million per-year self-proclaimed "King of all Media" isn't going anywhere, he has revealed. A new SiriusXM contract is in hand, and it has been signed.

It has been discussed for weeks, with no official word coming from either company until today. The nation's No. 1 audio creation and distribution company is teaming up with global video streaming giant Netflix for an exclusive video podcasting partnership — one that could see the yanking of YouTube offerings by iHeartMedia.

NATPE Global, which was rescued from death by Brunico Communications following its prior operator's COVID-era bankruptcy and is seeking to reemerge as a premiere content marketplace for television, has unveiled its NATPE Honors recipients. Among them is a former head of CBS News and Stations.

Urban One, the African American-centric media company, has confirmed the expiration of a new debt for old debt exchange plan, for which it has shared the final results. What does this mean for the company founded by Cathy Hughes and led by her son, Alfred Liggins?

A daily show produced by Media 3 Entertainment LLC featuring a three-member team entertaining listeners since 1997 and through a syndicated program that launched in 2003 has been added to the lineup of offerings available via iHeartMedia's national radio arm.

A five-week measurement of November 2025 by Nielsen shows that live sports drove broadcast channels to their best "share of TV" in a year while also fueling viewer increases at streaming platforms such as NBCUniversal's Peacock and CBS-aligned Paramount+.

Welcome to the latest carriage fee impact to arise for a broadcast television company, adding to a long string of impasses resulting in "blackouts," by law, of some of a cable TV service provider's most-watched channels.  This one involves the hub of New England and the pride of the three rivers.

The provider of professional media products for broadcast and digital video is welcoming a Silicon Valley executive to its Board of Directors. "A highly accomplished executive with a track record of leadership across technology, venture capital, and corporate governance," his expertise will play a key role at Bitcentral.

He's the face behind Venture Technologies Group and has been an active player in the low-power television business. Now, he has agreed to purchase a low-power Class A facility in The Dalles, Oregon.

It's a deal consummated on October 31 but not filed for FCC regulatory approval until now. And, it sees one of the biggest names in South Asian-focused media in the U.S. agree to purchase 22 low power television stations in various markets across the nation.

Prolific low-power television station trader Jeff Winemiller is purchasing another facility. This time, he's set his eyes on Macon, Ga., thanks to a deal with another familiar face in LPTV circles.

The third time has proven not to be the charm for Monte Spearman and his High Plains Radio Network (HPRN), as a reengineered deal to sell a series of radio stations to E Radio Network LLC has failed to close, FCC documents reveal.

The former President/CEO of the Media Financial Management Association and its Broadcast Cable Credit Association subsidiary has been named Executive Director of the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation (LABF).

In mid-June 2025, the MVPD formerly known as Cincinnati Bell took its retransmission consent battle against Nexstar Media Group to the FCC. Now, the Commission has spoken, ruling against altafiber by saying Nexstar did not violate any "bad faith" regulatory policies administered by the agency.

RBR+TVBR has confirmed the cafecito chatter around town that a notable advertising industry veteran has succeeded John Kozack at TelevisaUnivision, the world's largest Spanish-language content creation and distribution company.

CAR head Daniel Suhr singlehandedly convinced the Carr Commission to reinstate "news distortion" petitions against three of the "Big Four" networks dismissed under delegated authority in the waning days of the Biden administration. Now, Suhr may have handed local TV stations owners a big Christmas wish.

More than two decades after buying it, Cumulus Media has sold its Nashville headquarters. For the fiscally challenged company, it is a good decision, based on the sale price and the amount the company led by Mary Berner paid for the Music Row-adjacent property.

An initiative that adjusts Gray Media’s indebtedness, with repayment due in seven years, first disclosed one week ago has successfully closed, the broadcast TV station ownership group has shared. The move allows Gray to redeem a portion of its outstanding 10.5% senior secured first lien notes due 2029.

She's known among viewers of FOX News Channel, FOX Nation and FOX Business and for her work appearing in such publications as Nexstar Media Group-owned Capitol Hill daily The Hill. Now, Katie Pavlich is taking a much more prominent role at the Nexstar-owned cable TV network known as NewsNation.

A 100-watt noncommercial FM radio station serving tiny Dushore, Pa., is being acquired by a 50/50 partnership that will put it in the hands of a purveyor of AEC support services and equipment and a local community solutions organization.