Radio+Television Business Report

Digitally driven and Hispanic market-rooted media company Entravision Communications has entered into "a strategic amendment" to its all-important credit agreement.

The Legal Advisor to Commissioner Olivia Trusty has been pitched by the Managing Director of Pearl TV, the group focused on commercializing and marketing NEXTGEN TV, on getting a NAB-proposed mandate to sunset ATSC 1.0 approved by the FCC.

Americans for Tax Reform. Citizens Against Government Waste. Taxpayer Protection Alliance. These are just a handful of the groups that have written to the FCC urging the agency to toss the NAB's petition that would sunset ATSC 1.0 digital broadcast signals, replacing it with ATSC 3.0 signals powering NEXTGEN TV and broadcast data services.

The broadcast ministry led by the Wildmon family for decades is expanding again. This time, it is agreeing to purchase a Class C3 noncommercial FM serving Iowa's largest market. It's a facility presently devoted to serving the Black community — and that's poised to change.

CBS Television Network Affiliates Association members shared with members of the Media Bureau their unease over the long-pending transfer of control of Paramount Global to Skydance Media. In particular, they advocated that conditions associated with any merger approval order should be designed to strengthen local stations.

“As Red Apple Media continues to enlarge its footprint in radio, we recognized a need for an engineering specialist with insights that will bolster our growth strategy as we identify properties for our expansion,” said John Catsimatidis, owner and Chief Executive Officer.

While some industry observers may ask why Upfront Week persists, one thing is for certain: NBCUniversal likely has no plans to cease its Upfront negotiation cycle's pomp and circumstance, given the windfall of dollars it has attracted for its 2025-2026 content window.

It's a private equity group based in New York that placed its dollars in enterprises "supporting the future of technology." This includes sectors such as media and entertainment. Now, this entity using rented workspaces at 45 Rockefeller Plaza is seeking the FCC's approval to buy a group of Monte Spearman's radio stations.

At 540 kHz from Islip, N.Y., Radio Zindagi has targeted South Asian communities with in-language programming since its return to local radio in late December 2020. That transpired with its purchase by its current licensee — an entity the FCC found to have engaged in an unauthorized change of control.

CPB is sharing the results of a newly conducted national survey that concludes voters "place more trust in public media" than media overall. And, the data show, these voters "hold a more favorable opinion of public media compared with for profit media."

FOX News is moving ahead with a new media expansion effort that includes a licensing agreement with the "Ruthless" podcast which will be aligned with the division’s existing roster of on-demand audio offerings. This will see FOX News Digital's President and Editor-in-Chief add New Media to his role.

With offerings targeting media in the digital and OTT space, Deltatre's D3 VOLT, FORGE, AXIS, and DIVA integrated video offerings will now be paired with Endeavor Streaming’s pure-play OTT product, VESPER.

The company led by CEO Jennifer Witz has introduced "a new low-cost, ad-supported subscription plan" — a move seen by Netflix, Hulo and HBO Max that some critics may argue makes Sirius XM more like Radio. The ad-supported SiriusXM option will bring "the company's flagship audio service" at a fee of "less than $7" per month.

The world's biggest Spanish-language audio and visual content creator and distributor has confirmed that it is in active discussions with its commercial bank lenders to refinance its term loan A facility that matures in 2027. In addition, TelevisaUnivision is seeking to extend the maturity of its revolving credit facility that matures in 2027.

When it was simply Univision Communications, it had ambitions of a sizable initial public offering of stock. That never transpired, as Univision merged with iconic Mexican media brand and longtime content partner Televisa to become TelevisaUnivision. The company regularly offers its quarterly earnings results, even though it isn't publicly traded. Now, it has shared what it expects to report for the three months ended June 30.

Nielsen’s 50th monthly report of The Gauge is here, and the latest snapshot of total TV and streaming consumption offers more sobering data for broadcast TV companies fighting cable TV companies seeking a stop to a firm ATSC 1.0 cutoff date as OTT and FAST channels continue to attract audiences.

Twenty-two years ago, he walked through the doors of what were then Sandusky Radio properties as an intern. Today, those stations are owned by Hubbard Radio. And, that individual is now the VP/Market Manager.

Hearst Television has established a fellowship honoring a company executive who led the company’s promotion and marketing efforts for more than a dozen years as Vice President and Senior Vice President, before her December 2024 retirement.

Have you been wondering what a major root cause of negative broadcast revenue in 2025 could possibly be? Futuri, the AI-focused media technology company led by CEO Daniel Anstandig, uncovered the answer in a just-completed forensic analysis that put a microscope on the TV industry. 

In just a few weeks, the nation's largest publicly traded broadcast television station ownership groups will draw the curtain on their respective second quarter 2025 earnings reports that are predicted to be strong. That's excited investors, with some impressive year-to-date growth seen for Gray and some of its peers.