U.S.-based employers cut thousands of jobs during the month of November. In fact, the reduction-in-force initiatives resulted in a 24% rise in job cuts on a year-over-year basis. Here's the silver lining: the November 2025 job cuts are down 53% from those announced in October.
When core advertising remains a challenge and there aren't a lot of digital or political dollars to count on, what does one do? For SBS, the answer was cutting expenses and a key non-essential asset sale. The result? Third quarter income more than doubled, despite a dip in year-over-year net revenue.
Ten Crystal Radio Award winners will be chosen from the finalists by a panel of judges representing the broadcast industry, community service organizations and public relations firms. The awards will be presented during a special ceremony at the 2026 NAB State Leadership Conference.
As September ended, an AM/FM combo serving a small community on the western slopes of New York's Catskill Mountains were poised for a resurrection, after Townsquare Media shuddered them. Bold Gold Media Group had acquired the properties. Now, the company has formally taken over the radio stations.
Lionsgate and Debmar-Mercury have selected LTN to launch and deliver the newly launched MovieSphereGold all-movie digital multicast network and Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (FAST) channel via the company's multicast-enabled, purpose-built IP video distribution network.
In one fell swoop, the FCC under Chairman Brendan Carr has done a little more than a "delete, delete, delete" as part of the agency's sweeping clean-up of inactive, "unnecessary" and "outdated" items that have been collecting dust over the past several years.
Marketers’ cooling optimism, uncertainty around US trade policies, the impact of AI adoption and the dominance of digital channels on media planning. These are the top themes examined in WARC's newly released annual report, "The Voice of the Marketer."
At the end of 2025, the VP/General Manager of the two stations operated by Sinclair Inc. in Titletown will retire. There won't be a national search for his successor: The current Station Manager for the Green Bay, Wisc., pair will assume that role come 2026.
Here's something that broadcast TV stations eager to transition to the ATSC 3.0 broadcast TV standard may get excited about. GatesAir has introduced a new version of its Maxiva XTE software-defined television exciter with NEXTGEN TV its key focal point.
A media buying collective built for independent agencies and mid-market advertisers has secured a new partnership with FreeWheel, the Comcast-owned global technology platform for the streaming advertising ecosystem.
There's a new leader at the ABC affiliate serving Wichita, and he succeeds Mike Rajewski by exiting Allen Media Group properties in Huntsville, Ala., where he served as VP and Regional General Manager.
The Chief of the Audio Division within the FCC's Media Bureau has denied a petition filed by Townsquare Media to renew the license of a 1-watt FM translator serving the Berkshires city of Pittsfield, Mass. However, the licensee has entered into a Consent Decree with the Commission in order to win it.
It's a unique 3kw FM radio stations with no less than eight FM boosters assigned to it, so that it may overcome terrain concerns and best reach the Springfield, Mass., market from its city of license, Northampton. At present, the station is silent. But, that could change once a new owner takes control.
A Spanish-language radio broadcast ministry has agreed to sell a trio of full-power FMs serving a good portion of California's High Desert and Mojave regions, in addition to nine FM translators stretching from the Inland Empire through the Las Vegas market. Who's the buyer of the Ondas de Vida properties?
Whether you’re giving a toast, running a town hall, or opening the first meeting of 2026, preparation is your superpower. Start this week, and you’ll enter every room with holiday spirit and the confidence of a leader who knows exactly what to say, says public speaking pro Rosemary Ravinal.
Jeff Warshaw, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the growing radio station ownership group Connoisseur Media, and a pair of television industry C-Suite leaders have been appointed to the National Association of Broadcasters Board of Directors to fill recently vacated seats.
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Urban One has announced robust early results from its debt restructuring plan. Some 92% of bondholders, representing $450 million in debt, submitted their notes before the December 1 early tender deadline as the company superserving African Americans advances a three-part refinancing strategy.
The ad tech platform's new initiative is built on a mission of "Trust, Transparency and Seamless Ad Execution" for live streamed content, Including sports. ABC and ESPN parent Disney is one of the first certified partners, joining FOX, NBCUniversal and CBS News & Stations parent Paramount.
A newly released study from a Sinclair Inc. subsidiary shares just how the new digital broadcast TV standard will help power the "internet of things," a robust alternative to DBS, and other non-broadcast revenue-revving features the ATSC, Pearl TV and broadcast TV executives have been promoting for months.
