The Museum of Broadcast Communications has formally inducted its previously announced eight new inductees into the Radio Hall of Fame for 2024. The individuals were honored Thursday evening at an in-person induction ceremony held at the Omni Nashville Hotel.
The Chief Legal Officer and EVP of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at the NAB has shared his thoughts in a new blog post about the FCC’s proposed rulemaking that would require disclaimers on political ads that use AI. In short, Rick Kaplan has told Jessica Rosenworcel that the Commission shouldn't be ones to set the rules.
With the legal assistance of veteran communications law attorney John C. Trent, a private not-for-profit educational institution located in Muscle Shoals, Ala., has agreed to purchase an AM radio station with a FM translator serving a Southern Alabama city adjacent to Fort Rucker.
Many people who stutter as children become outstanding speakers as adults. After reading the obituary of James Earl Jones, Rosemary Ravinal learned that controlling his stutter led to his extraordinary career. "Stuttering helped to shape my public speaking career," says Ravinal, who offers a few coping mechanisms in this column.
Jessica Rosenworcel will be spending a part of September 27 with a virtual trip to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she will address the Berkeley Law AI Institute. She plans share how the Commission is considering new transparency standards that would require disclosure when AI technology is used in political advertising on radio and TV.
The broadcast television station ownership group led by Chris Ripley has increased its advertising guidance for the third quarter 2024 to account for what it labels "stronger-than-expected" political revenues.
To mark the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, NAB President/CEO Curtis LeGeyt penned a thought piece that shares how Spanish-language broadcasters are delivering "essential, election-related information to voters and combatting misinformation."
She began her career as a sales assistant for Petry Television some 30 years ago and has also been an account executive for the ABC affiliate serving Bakersfield. Since August 1998, she has been linked to the CBS and FOX stations serving this southern San Joaquin Valley city. Now, she will lead those stations for owner Sinclair Inc.
To fill the role, the advertising division of Comcast has hired an individual with experience at both Major League Baseball and as head of the Washington Post Creative Group — in addition to a notable tenure at Marriott International.
The multimedia company led by Byron Allen has reportedly engaged both Moelis & Co. and Kirkland & Ellis as part of a plan to address its debt maturities amid cost cutting that a source says includes permanent work-from-home arrangements for staff in New York and in Southern California.
The PBS Member serving the Plattsburgh, N.Y.; Burlington, Vt.; and, indirectly, the Montréal metropolitan area is one of two additional grant recipients of Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds designed to give the operations cash for enhanced emergency alerting upgrades.
The owner of such radio stations as "98.5 The Sports Hub" in Boston, WCSX and WRIF in Detroit, and WMMR and WMGK in Philadelphia will move ahead with a reverse stock split in a bid to regain Nasdaq minimum trading requirements. What's the ratio it is going with?
Wade Davis is no longer the Chief Executive Officer of TelevisaUnivision, the company announced early Thursday, after reports in The New York Times and Reuters distributed Wednesday evening cited unnamed sources close to the matter that a change in leadership was imminent. Who's his successor?
Investors in Townsquare Media will be pleased with their "decent" return over the last five years. That's the conclusion of financial blog Simply Wall St., which took a deep dive into the radio station ownership group that derives most of its revenue from digital initiatives.
Pivotal Research Group CEO and Internet, Media and Communications analyst Jeff Wlodarczak believes higher medium to long-term Average Revenue Per User and subscriber forecasts warrants a street-high price target for Spotify shares that is significantly higher than its current trading range.
Two weeks ago, Evanov Communications said it would cease operations at three of its underperforming FM radio stations due to severe economic conditions it blamed on "the challenges of increased competition, a difficult media climate, and the residual effects of the pandemic.”
Now, two of those FMs have found a buyer — but not its FM in the nation's capital, which is slated to sign off the air Friday.
When the billion-dollar transaction closes, Rogers will be the largest owner of MLSE with a controlling Interest of 75% in the entity that owns the Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Raptors. Meanwhile, the deal will provide Bell with the opportunity to renew its existing MLSE broadcast and sponsorship rights long-term at fair market value, Rogers says.
The General Manager for the stations that comprise CBS Colorado will be adding similar duties for the Paramount Global properties that make up CBS Los Angeles by earning a promotion to Regional GM, effective October 14. The change for Tim Wieland comes alongside the coming departure of Joel Vilmenay.
House Energy & Commerce Committee Members on both sides of the aisle, touting the public safety needs for those in a vehicle, overwhelming passed the retooled "AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act," sending it to a full floor vote in the House of Representatives. A quest to stop a mandate "in perpetuity" from a Michigan House Member was thwarted.
The champion of the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act in the U.S. Senate and the NAB have each issued statements cheering the House Energy & Commerce Committee's 45-2 passage of the latest incarnation of the bill, which sends it up to the House of Representatives floor for a full Member vote.
