In mid-June the ATVA warned of a potential "blackout" of the FOX and MyNetwork TV affiliates in Central New York on Verizon FiOs systems. That's now occurred, and the pro-MVPD lobbying group is pointing fingers — naturally — at the TV station ownership group led by Webb Collums.
It is an operation that dates to July 1990, when WBGW-FM 101.5 began broadcasting from a remote corner of Gibson County in Southwest Indiana. Today, it has a network of six total FM signals in addition to WBGW, and WBGW-AM, too. Soon, it will be adding three FMs and two FM translators to its stable of non-secular broadcast properties.
In March 2018, owner Donald Pugh Sr. transferred an AM and its FM translator companion to his Eternity Media Group. Now, it seems, the FCC has been waiting an eternity for the station's annual regulatory fees. As such, it has ordered Pugh to pay up or risk losing the Laurel, Miss., stations' licenses.
In September 2024, Great Plains Media agreed to sell an FM licensed to Lawrence, Kansas, to a leading Hispanic market media operation in greater Kansas City. An extension was granted in February 2025. Now, the deal has crumbled, leading the seller to go back to the drawing board on finding a buyer.
With YouTube TV grabbing NFL Sunday Ticket rights from DirecTV, restaurants and bars across the U.S. have been grappling with the transition. Some shifted services, while others are forking over dollars for both. Now, thanks to a new deal, every National Football League game will be made available via DirecTV For Business.
A Montréal-headquartered provider of real-time video network and visual collaboration products is placing a spotlight on its video transport platform and its mobile video transmitter at the upcoming IBC 2026 conference scheduled for the same weekend as the Jewish New Year.
He joins UPR following leadership roles in both commercial and public broadcasting, most recently serving in senior management at Penn State University's WPSU Radio. During his career, he has overseen broadcast operations, programming, and audience development at university-affiliated media organizations.
The lone Democratic Party voice on the Federal Communications Commission has again lashed out at the agency under the leadership of Chairman Brendan Carr for its proceeding in which ABC Owned Stations have been asked to participate in an early license renewal effort.
"NAB’s addition significantly strengthens Radio Ready’s presence across North America and the United States, bringing the leading advocate for America’s broadcast industry into the growing international coalition working to keep radio front and center for drivers," the group said on Thursday.
It's only two games, but it could spell the start of a long-term partnership that's "muy amable." The Major League Baseball club serving South Florida will see two of its regular-season games air in Spanish on the NBCUniversal Telemundo Station Group station it owns and operates in Miami.
A Nasdaq-traded Orlando-headquartered provider of streaming television and digital media platform products is expanding its strategy to help local businesses and regional advertisers reach streaming audiences by rolling out "a unified advertising platform" spanning all 210 U.S. Designated Market Areas.
Sirius XM reported Q2 2026 revenue of $2.16 billion, beating estimates. However, the company saw its stock drop about 8.7% post-release before quickly starting to recover. Despite a strong cash flow yield of 12.9%, concerns about subscriber growth and market dynamics linger.
An AM radio station and two FM translators serving the Hot Springs, Ark., area due west of Little Rock are about to undergo a transformation. When complete, the programming is expected to be en español. That's thanks to the stations' sale by E Radio Networks.
The PBS Member station's 70 years of archives are stuck at a facility believed to be used by Iron Mountain, in Denver. This led the television station to sue the data storage giant. A district judge ordered Iron Mountain to refrain from deleting any of the files as litigation continues.
Thanks to its transformative $22 million transaction with Hymen Childs' Service Broadcasting, announced in May, Urban One has a "revitalized" Dallas-Fort Worth station group. As such, the company led by Alfred Liggins III has refreshed its leadership team in North Texas.
As of Saturday, WTLP-FM is abandoning its 20-year simulcast with WTOP Radio. Hubbard Radio placed the all-News station serving the National Capital Region on the signal in 2007. Before that, it was "Z104" — in two incarnations as a Top 40 station. Interestingly, it is the fourth hit-driven FM in the D.C. DMA since 1991 to adopt non-secular programming.
For 17 seasons, the radio play-by-play of the NHL franchise serving the Buckeye State has seen Bob McElligott handle the task, with TEGNA's WBNS-FM "97.1 The Fan" in Columbus, Ohio, the team's flagship audio partner. Beginning with the 2026-2027 season, all Columbus Blue Jackets broadcasts will be simulcast across TV and radio.
Entravision's financial portrait during the first three quarters of 2026 was simply framed: digital advertising revenue growth and retransmission fees helped spark growth. At the same time, the Media Operating Loss doubled from the same period in 2025. Is this part of a long-term trend that will repeat in Q2 2026?
Mid-West Family Broadcasting has reached a deal to blend its four Springfield, Mo., stations into Zimmer Communications’ holdings in the market, forming a new nine-station cluster under local ownership. It's being billed as a "merger" in the Southwest Missouri hub between two longtime licensees in the Land of the Ozarks.
There's chatter that one of the nation's largest radio station ownership groups could be faced with its own oversized job force shrinkage. Why? The post-bankruptcy ownership structure of Cumulus Media shows that the president of notorious newspaper owner Alden Global Capital will hold a big stake of Cumulus stock.
