For decades until the mid-1980s, it was one of the most dominant brands in the world. Then, it lost its groove, and even changed its formula in an infamous marketing blunder. Today, it's in a 40-year battle with Pepsico that's still being waged. For last week, at least, Coca-Cola was a big winner — at Spot Cable.
Since joining TitanTV in 1998, he has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s growth, innovation, and leadership within the broadcast industry. Now, he is preparing for retirement from the broadcast TV SaaS tech services provider.
From late 2003 through the fall of 2020, he was widely known for his local leadership roles at radio stations in Kansas City. Now, many in the broadcasting industry are pausing to honor Dave Alpert, who has lost his battle with cancer. Alpert was retired and resided in Naples, Fla.
With a history of serving the broadcast media industry and its thirst for top-quality audio, Telos Alliance is heading into the 2026 NAB Show with a “quick list” of what it will be placing a spotlight on at its convention center floor booth.
A company fueled by digital multicast networks has reached an agreement with an iconic entertainment and action figure company relocating to Boston this year that will see the debut of a new broadcast channel that brings characters such as "G.I. Joe" and the "Power Rangers" to a whole new generation of audiences.
It's not the Canadian communications company with the same name that disappeared in 2023. Rather, it is a multimedia operation serving Northern Illinois and in Central Iowa that is purchasing three FM radio stations due south of Chicago.
Three landlords in the Empire State have been given fair warning from the FCC to do what they can to silence unlicensed FM radio station operations originating from buildings they own.
As November 2018 began, a two-year interference battle between Lakes Media and a FM translator in the Raleigh-Durham market ended with the silence of W234AR. Then came tiny W252EL at 98.3 MHz in Cary, N.C., creating in fall 2024 a third interference headache for Lakes Media. At long last, Birch has a win.
Zach Sang has built one of broadcasting’s most distinctive careers, and he’s bringing a masterclass in modern radio to Las Vegas. Sang is joining Radio Ink Editor-in-Chief Cameron Coats for a fireside chat at BEA 2026.
The owner of the Global broadcast TV network and a variety of cable television channels including Canadian versions of History, Adult Swim, National Geographic and Disney Channel continued to experience a downturn in core advertising, with the loonies and twonies down sharply from last year.
In a four-page order released early Friday morning, Sacramento-based Chief District Judge Troy L. Nunley has modified and extended a Temporary Restraining Order preventing Nexstar Media Group from integrating all of the assets acquired in its merger with TEGNA for seven days.
"FOX 13" in West Tennessee's key DMA is owned by a licensee led by Todd Parkin. This could soon change, as RBR+TVBR reported in late March that multiple stations his group acquired are being transferred back from Rincon Broadcasting Group to Standard Media’s Community News Media LLC. That hasn't stopped Parkin from naming a VP/GM of the Memphis property once owned by Cox Media Group.
The Media Bureau of the FCC this week released an Order that extends an existing waiver of a rule that would require broadcast TV stations to provide an aural representation of visual, non-textual emergency information that is displayed during non-newscast programming.
It's a Class C1 FM known for playing "the most music" in Northwest Arkansas, from a transmitter located between Fort Smith and Fayetteville. Soon, it will be in the hands of a new owner.
What do first dates and first meetings have in common? Everything, says public speaking expert Rosemary Ravinal. "Whether you’re sitting across from someone at a candlelit table, at a conference table, or on a Zoom screen, you’re doing the same essential thing," she says in this column.
"The company’s recently announced financial restructuring marks an important step toward meaningfully reducing the debt burden that has constrained the business." That's what Cumulus Media President/CEO Mary Berner has to say about the fiscally challenged radio station owner's fiscal health as Q2 revs up.
There were less commercially licensed radio stations — regardless of band — at the end of Q1 2026 than there were at the end of 2025. That's one key takeaway from the latest Broadcast Station Totals courtesy of the FCC.
Denver’s Kroenke Sports & Entertainment is expanding its executive bench, naming two individuals tasked with overseeing commercial partnerships and data operations across the organization.
It was first noticed by RBR+TVBR on Wednesday, with the release of Q4 2025 results by Beasley Media Group. For some reason, the company's stock was on the rise. That reason was wholly linked to a "meme stock" campaign alerting followers to buy "BBGI" on the Nasdaq exchange. That effort continued on Thursday.
TelevisaUnivision's domestic Univision Communications Inc. subsidiary has moved forward with a Tender Offer that puts to potential debtholders the privately held Hispanic media entity's outstanding 8% senior secured notes due 2028 up to a maximum tender amount.
