The new Chief Product & Technology Officer for Disney Entertainment and ESPN has been selected, and Disney Entertainment Co-Chairmen Alan Bergman and Dana Walden and ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro all came together to share the news.
The President of Networks at Nexstar Media Group has just executed a sale of more than 3,900 shares of the company's stock, an SEC filing shows. This executive will continue to own nearly 11,000 shares of the broadcast and cable television station group that also happens to own WGN Radio in Chicago.
Lansing, 67, enjoyed a career that involved navigating some media organizations through bumpy periods in their history. This included his time at NPR, which began in October 2019.
News of Lansing's departure came in September 2023, when word came of his retirement at the end of the year.
"Building on years of successful interagency collaboration, the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeks comment on a wide range of potential rule changes to improve the Citizens Broadband Radio Service for all current and future users of the 3.5 GHz band," the FCC said on Friday.
The company was founded by the late Ted Rogers with the purchase of CHFI-FM 98.1 in Toronto. Today, Rogers Communications is a multimedia Goliath in Canada. As of Wednesday (8/14), it has a new Executive Chair, and it is a member of the Rogers family.
A major water main break near the Jacques Cartier Bridge brought significant troubles to the city of Montréal on Friday morning, with Bell Media's broadcast radio and television station studios and offices shuttered following the incident.
While watching the closing ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, public speaking coach Rosemary Ravinal felt inspired to look for a link between public speaking and the Games. "One is about delivering powerful speeches while the other is about competing in sports," she writes in this new column.
He has programmed radio stations for Cumulus Media for more than 20 years. Now, he's been promoted to Operations Manager for the company's Baton Rouge stations in addition to becoming Program Director of its Adult R&B and Gospel stations in the New Orleans market.
The Appellate Division of New York's Supreme Court has affirmed a July 2023 ruling that requires the nation's largest owner of broadcast television stations to repay direct broadcast satellite TV services provider DirecTV for fees associated with what is today an unaffiliated TV station branded as “DC News Now.”
Unaided awareness for a local business towered over well-known national franchises, and the Radio advertising success story in this college town from Steve's Pest Control is an academic learning lesson worth hearing at the upcoming Radio Masters Sales Summit on September 10-11 in Cincinnati.
The Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, Ted Cruz, has shared the news that all five Commissioners will decide whether or not Audacy Inc.'s reorganization plan passes muster with regulatory policy. A Houston federal bankruptcy court approved in February.
As expected, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez today signed off on an emergency motion giving Audacy Inc. the ability to extend its pause on meeting certain financial obligations beyond Monday — a request that came earlier this week due to FCC inaction in approving its post-bankruptcy restructuring agreement.
Radio station owners seeking new independent processing options for their HD subchannels can now consider a new offering from Orban that's getting its formal introduction at the upcoming IBC conference in Amsterdam.
On July 24, a NALF was handed to Carolina University, licensee of a Chattanooga, Tenn., FM translator, for failing to file a timely license renewal application and for unauthorized operation. Now, the FCC has upheld that fine. However, it agreed to reduce the licensee's financial penalty.
The world's biggest Spanish-language content creation and distribution company has reached a new multi-year partnership with Major League Baseball. And, fans will not have to wait until the 2025 season to tune to coverage en español on both sides of the Rio Grande.
Three AM radio stations, an FM serving a tiny Hamilton County, N.Y., hamlet, and four FM translators are poised to change hands, thanks to a deal reached on July 17 that has just been filed with the FCC for its regulatory OK.
He comes to the WayFM network owner after seven years at Ramsey Solutions, where he rose to Executive Director of Product Engineering. Previously, he held the role of Director of Technology for StyleNet and PatientFocus.
A Fargo-based media company that owns WDAY-AM, WDAY-6 and The Forum newspaper serving this South Dakota city has agreed to purchase an NBC affiliate and two low-power television station siblings in Rapid City, S.D. It's a transaction that sees Kalil & Co. serve as the broker.
A new report that focuses on the major trends shaping programmatic advertising over the coming 12 months finds that brand safety is a top concern for some 60% of advertisers and agencies surveyed. This has resulted in 76% of respondents spending as much as 40% less on open web advertising.
The broadcast media industry's publicly traded radio and television companies may have just released their second quarter financial results one week ago, but that hasn't stopped the nation's largest owner of broadcast TV stations from announcing when it plans on distributing its Q3 fiscal report card.
