Radio+Television Business Report

It looks like Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) has a new, bipartisan fight on behalf of local broadcast radio companies on her hands, as a non-binding resolution that opposes "any new performance fee, tax, royalty or other charge" on domestic AM and FM stations has been introduced in the U.S. Senate for the current Congressional session.

He was formerly Director of Sales for Omaha-based Walnut Media and before that was a Senior Account Executive for NRG Media in the Nebraska market bordering Council Bluffs, Iowa. Now, he's leading a group of stations in Iowa's state capital.

Non-technical, content-oriented teams are absorbing engineering functions across channel creation, configuration and playout. The underlying technologies required to support these workflows need to be simpler, easier to use — and more efficient at an organizational level, LTN's Rick Young says in this thought piece.

Last year saw the inaugural season of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) on ION, with broadcasts offering fans a new way to watch league matches.  Now, The E.W. Scripps Co.'s Scripps Sports unit has shared production plans and a new studio team for the network’s 2025 season coverage, which begins March 15.

Video consumption will continue to transition from traditional pay TV networks to streaming platforms in 2025, which will pressure linear TV networks in the U.S. That's a key finding from Seth Shafer, Senior Research Analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, offered in a 2025 Trends in Global Media report.

Brendan Carr spent Monday in Barcelona for the MWC Barcelona conference, a major global gathering devoting to mobile technology. Carr delivered a Keynote Address of approximately eight minutes in length before joining a group discussion. The big takeaway? "In America ... we are returning to our free speech tradition."

Since the closing of Gray Media's merger with Raycom Media in 2019, she has overseen the company's legal matters for its operating divisions as Deputy General Counsel. Now, she has been promoted to General Counsel for the broadcast TV station owner and parent of the new Assembly Atlanta production park.

As digital platforms continue to cut into traditional radio's share of the media pie, a study conducted in the middle of the 2024 election shows shifting media habits among news consumers in the US, highlighting a decline in AM/FM usage.

In the final three months of 2023, a strategic plan commenced that was designed to position a Sinclair Inc. digital multicast network as an alternative to traditional sitcom-based offerings. This included the purchase of four key anchor series. Come April 28, just in time for Upfront season, this diginet will have a new identity.

Technology across radio, television, digital and the broader media and IT ecosystem continues to evolve. This year's 2025 NAB Show will see the NAB partner with Public Media Venture Group to present TechConnect ’25, designed to serve as a premier tech education conference targeting public media pros.

Investors were more than pleased with the fourth quarter 2024 financial performance of the nation's No. 1 owner of broadcast television stations, sending shares in Nexstar Media Group up sharply on Thursday. That growth continued across the first trading session of March 2025. 

Darrell Calton has gained attention for engineering an ownership shift at Iliad Media Group that made it an employee-owned licensee — one that recently agreed to expand to Montana. Now, his son has created another employee-owned entity by teaming up with five other individuals to purchase two FM radio stations.

The radio broadcasting company founded by the late Ed Christian and today led by CEO Chris Forgy has announced when it will reveal its financial results for the final three months of 2024.

The battle for supremacy among auto insurance specialists, with respect to broadcast and cable TV spots, appears to be titling in favor of the company that has made its mark with a series of commercials featuring a wannabe 1970s-styled cop and his furry, flightless sidekick.

For a quarter-century, he was associated with radio stations in Philadelphia and, before that, Miami. Now, he's joining EVP Randy Chase and CEO Carl Parmer at a Birmingham-based owner of radio stations carved from a group of properties once under the Cox Radio banner.

She's a household name in parts of the Upper Midwest and is a former NAB Television Board Chair. Now, the National Association of Broadcasters will honor her with the Chuck Sherman Television Leadership Award on Tuesday (3/4) in Washington, D.C.

It owns eight radio stations serving such Illinois communities as Clinton, to the north of Decatur, and Taylorville, to the southwest. Soon, these properties along with a trio of online platforms and a digital division will be assets held by another locally based owner, with its operations outside Springfield, Ill.

The FCC at its February Open Meeting last week moved forward with a Notice of Inquiry that seeks comment on whether, and if so how, to free up additional mid-band spectrum for new services in the Upper C-band (3.98 GHz to 4.2 GHz).

At NAB Show 2025, where Dielectric will be at West Hall Booth 3000, the Sinclair Inc. subsidiary plans to highlight how its recent technology innovations have prepared it for business growth in FM radio — and for the future of NEXTGEN TV as broadcasters inch closer to planning ATSC 3.0 single-frequency networks (SFNs).

AudioScience, a German audio hardware company, has forged a strategic partnership with MaxxKonnect, a provider of advanced broadcast and connectivity products. Together, the companies plan to offer its customers scalable and customizable offerings designed to enhance broadcasters’ audio and streaming capabilities.