Radio+Television Business Report

The software integration and design of WorldCast System's all-in-one transmitter platform is being extended to higher-power FM broadcasting, with the addition of 5kw variations of the company's Ecreso FM AiO Series.

The FCC's Media Bureau has issued a public notice with the expressed intent of providing "clarification and additional guidance" as it pertains to eligibility restrictions and the comparative selection criteria in its filing window for new noncommercial educational reserved band FM translator station applications.

Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink and the Radio + Television Business Report are proud to present their respective Lifetime Leadership Awards to two of broadcasting's most respected executives, honoring careers that together span a century of radio and television leadership.

Four years after acquiring an FM with a 50kw signal covering Munsing and Escanaba, Mich., Aurora Media and its "906 Delta" licensee has agreed to sell the station.

Days after the results of a close employee-led vote to discontinue SAG-AFTRA representation of its unionized anchors and reporters were shared, a second labor decertification effort has transpired at the Sinclair Inc.-owned ABC affiliate serving the biggest market in the Pacific Northwest.

Skyview Networks is expanding its agreement with Playfly Sports by adding a pair of Lone Star State collegiate partners while a California school adds production to the services it already receives from Skyview.

Neal Gladner is retiring as Executive Director of the Arkansas Broadcasters Association, following the SBA's upcoming convention in mid-September. Taking his role is the association's Membership Director.

The Operations Manager for a group of radio stations that includes Midway, Ga.-licensed and Savannah-targeted WGCO "Hot 98.3" has accepted the role of Manager of Station Operations for AI-powered audio tech vendor Super Hi-Fi.

In March 2025, Salem Media struck a deal to sell three FMs and an AM with an FM translator serving Honolulu to a locally based company led by Monroe D. Greer. Now, it is welcoming a veteran programming leader who once handed the music and air talent for three crosstown radio stations.

The FCC on Wednesday acted to remove what the Carr Commission calls "a costly and unnecessary regulatory burden hanging over thousands of citizens and organizations" that create locally owned and locally watched video programming for public, educational, and governmental access (PEG) channels.

The licensee of four FM stations serving a rural portion of eastern Kentucky have entered into a Consent Decree with the Chief of the FCC Media Bureau's Audio Division that absolves the radio broadcasting company of a series of rule violations ranging from tardy license renewals to failure to maintain its online public file. 

It operates a trio of FM frequencies on the reserved noncommercial band serving small communities between Eureka and Santa Rosa as the NPR Member for this swath of Northern California. Soon, it will have an added boost to its coverage area designed to give those in picturesque Willits a clear signal for "KXY&Z."

The licensee of a pair of radio stations on the Delmarva Peninsula has filed a Petition to Deny a proposed transaction submitted to the FCC for its regulatory approval. That deal would allow Draper Media to own and operate eight radio stations in the region between Wilmington, Del., and Salisbury-Ocean City, Md.

Data accuracy and validation firm Truthset has forged a "strategic integration" with Comcast-owned FreeWheel, the connected TV-focused ad tech platform. This, FreeWheel says, allows advertisers to activate its independently validated Data Rated Audiences (DRAs) across the platform's Connected TV advertising ecosystem.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has declined to move ahead with a fresh look at a District Court's decision that put the kibosh on a $136 million racial discrimination claim against the FCC for Standard General's inability to complete its proposed merger with TEGNA.

TEGNA has a new Board of Directors, complying with an order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento. The news was shared via a "Status Report" submitted by Nexstar Media Group legal counsel to the judge overseeing its legal battle against DirecTV and a coalition of state Attorneys General.

The weeks-long standoff is over. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit formally issued a mandate on Tuesday, vacating the stay that had clouded Cumulus Media’s antitrust injunction against Nielsen and confirming that the order is back in force.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ruled in favor of four Capitol Hill politicians who took the Federal Communications Commission to court in an effort to put a stop to a Public Notice they claim opens the door to what Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gómez calls "dark money spending" on political ads.

The FCC Commissioner aligned with the Democratic Party has lashed out at a Media Bureau "Order" she claims "unlawfully" expands the interpretation of which political entities qualify for discounted broadcast advertising rates. Yet, her own communiqué says the "Order" is a Public Notice that's taken some heat of late.

In the coming years, media historians may look back at 2025 as the year Canadian radio and television growth prospects permanently fell behind those of online services. A newly released report from the CRTC offers the clearest illustration yet of just how broadcast media's challenges now stretch to digital encroachment.