Radio+Television Business Report

Dubbed ETX, the transmitter takes capabilities from the company’s BE STX line and the Elenos ETG transmitter products. The ETX line is currently shipping and on the air in the U.S. and Latin America with models ranging from 600 watts to 5kw, BE says.

She's widely known across the broadcast media sales world for her 15 years of experience leading commercial strategies for Hulu, Madhive, Clear Channel and Tribune Broadcasting. Now, she's joined Jo Kinsella and the team at XR Extreme Reach. This puts Kristin Wnuk in the role of Senior Vice President of Enterprise Solutions.

Davina Sashkin, David Oxenford and the team at Wilkinson Barker Knauer are welcoming a new Partner. He formerly served as  Deputy Bureau Chief of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau.

Interactive Live Streaming (ILS) can be cost prohibitive to all but the largest streaming providers, so how can a broadcast media operation eager to monetize its streams do so without denting the bank account? A report released in conjunction with IBC 2024, held earlier this month in Amsterdam, offers some insights.

France-based "Audio game changer" Digigram has brought to market an optional MPEG-TS service for use in the company's IQOYA X/LINK and SERV/LINK audio gateway ranges. As Digigram sees it, the addition of MPEG-TS option offers a wide array of new decoding possibilities for audio pros. 

A SEC filing shows that the former SBS exec is gaining an equity interest in the owner of WBLS and "Hot 97" in New York, and the operator of Estrella Media. Meanwhile, joining Rodriguez in MediaCo’s C-Suite is Brian Kei, who served as Estrella Media's COO and CFO. Additionally, Andrew Carington is on lease as Chief Legal Officer from Standard General.

On Friday, hundreds of thousands of radio listeners across the South were stunned by the news that "The ACE & TJ Show" has come to its end, and a new incarnation is already in the works. But"TJ & Riggins," the successor show, won't be airing on the Beasley Media Group FM in Charlotte on which Ace & TJ were heard.

Paperwork has been submitted with the FCC that seeks regulatory approval for a transaction in which a FM radio station licensed to Rockdale, Tex., will be transferred to the Cowboy Broadcasting Network from its current licensee.

There will be no death sentence for a 2,500-watt Class A FM serving the capital of Canada and neighbouring Gatineau, Québec. That's because Evanov Communications, with hours to spare, secured a buyer for the Ottawa radio station known as "Lite 98.5."

He was most recently the Chief Technology Officer at Allen Media Broadcasting, an arm of Allen Media Group. Now he has resurfaced at one of the nation's leading video systems integration and consulting firms as Director of Business Development and Technology.

It is licensed to serve Morris and Union Counties in northern New Jersey as a daytime-only AM radio station with an FM translator. Soon, it could be silenced for good, however.  Why? The station's owner is extremely tardy with its annual FCC regulatory fees.

Misinformation is spreading rapidly in the digital universe, especially during election season. As a faculty member of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications sees it, untrustworthy hyperlinks found on news sites — some of which may be dubious, themselves — may be partly to blame.

There's a dominant leader atop the latest Media Monitors Spot Ten Cable report, and it is the OTT service that is home to Thursday Night Football and an array of scripted originals including Fallout.

She has served as Assistant News Director for ABC Owned Stations' WLS-7 in Chicago since 2022. Now, she's getting a promotion to VP of Marketing, a role that puts her in control of local programming, marketing and design.

A veteran entertainment legal executive has taken the role of General Counsel at Free TV Networks, the Jonathan Katz-helmed operation that in 2024 launched three digital multicast broadcast television choices.

 Al McCoy is being remembered for his remarkable career following his passing at the age of 91. News of the legendary Phoenix Suns radio play-by-play man's death surfaced over the weekend. He could be heard calling the NBA team's games from 1972 through his retirement at the end of the 2022-2023 season.

In what it calls "response to subscriber feedback," Integr8 USA is now offered for four formats, with CHR and Hot AC served with their own services.

Godvik will sit on the 2024 Council along with 19 other members: twelve Film/TV/Streaming members, five Online Media members and three Broadcast/Cable/Streaming News members, plus five officers — President, Secretary-Treasurer and three Vice Presidents, one from each work sector.

Tailored for female radio and digital sellers or managers with a minimum of three years of sales experience, the selected mentee will receive monthly coaching from an experienced mentor and guidance from digital subject matter experts.

"The ACE & TJ Show" has come to its end, and a new incarnation is already in the works. In a post to the show's Facebook page made on Friday morning, the program confirmed that "Ace is no longer associated with the show," which is self-syndicated and airs on stations across the South.