Radio+Television Business Report

FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty has returned from a week-long visit to Alaska, where she met with industry leaders, as well as federal, state, local, and Tribal stakeholders to see firsthand the investments, policies, and hard work driving broadband expansion to some of the nation’s most remote and difficult-to-serve areas.

Globally debuting at IBC, groundSwXtch represents an extension of swXtch.io’s virtual overlay network, bringing software-defined multicast capabilities, SDI to IP, network path redundancy (Dash 7X) and more to physical on-prem environments.

YouTube continued its streak as TV’s "leading media distributor in July," according to Nielsen. This marks the sixth consecutive month online video hub has been perched atop the dominant ratings and audience data firm’s Media Distributor Gauge report.

Waves Audio, a Knoxville-based developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and plugins, is now shipping Clarix LB: an AI-powered noise reduction plugin for voice. The product is designed to clean ambient noise in real-time broadcast environments.

Telos Alliance plans to demonstrate several key AI-based workflows for its Minnetonka Audio AudioTools Server file-based audio automation platform at the upcoming IBC2025 conference and expo in Amsterdam.

It's a transaction that could have many people talking. Milwaukee Radio Alliance, presently led by Acting CEO Diane Sutter, has agreed to sell two FM radio stations in Wisconsin's largest city. Who the buyer is will be one topic of chatter. The other will be the price tag on this deal involving Kalil & Co.

FOX Television Stations is moving ahead with a series of leadership promotions across multiple markets where it has properties, resulting in a new Senior VP and Regional General Manager for its stations in San Francisco and Los Angeles; and for its properties in Seattle and Phoenix.

Now that Labor Day is nearing and summer vacations are ending, The Home Depot is revving up its advertising activity at both Spot Cable and Spot TV. That's according to the latest data from iHeartMedia-owned Media Monitors.

Cumulus Media's four-station group in Des Moines has a new VP/Market Manager, and he's in-bound from Steel City Media in Kansas City, where he was a senior marketing consultant.

Two FM radio stations serving Spanish-language audiences in greater Las Vegas could soon be gone from the radio dial, even as a Nevada federal judge has blocked a subsidiary of American Tower Corporation from tearing down the stations' broadcasting structure.

The submission window is now open for the 2025 MIW & NAB Leadership Foundation LAUNCH Mentorship Program, described as a one-of-a-kind mentorship designed to cultivate emerging female talent in radio, with a focus on engineering, audio production, and technical operations.

SiriusXM and its lenders have agreed on an amendment to the satellite broadcaster’s existing credit agreement that pushes the window on its existing debt down the road, while increasing maximum borrowing capacity by another $250 million.

Should the man who successfully engineered the combination of his radio broadcasting company with the much-larger Alpha Media been given the role that today is held by Kelli Turner? A state-level judicial body in the Constitution State won't be asked to offer its answer to the question for what is likely two years.

Less than one month after promoting from within to select a new leader for its Markets Group, iHeartMedia is realigning the division for the second time in two years by restructuring several leadership roles to streamline national functionality and creating new regions of operation.

The company could be under new ownership in a year, but that's not stopping a 12-year CNN veteran from joining TEGNA as its new VP of Content, overseeing its television stations in the northeast and leading morning news strategy across the company’s 64 stations.

The National Association of Broadcasters, joined by "a broad coalition of broadcast companies," has submitted reply comments in the FCC's review of its 39% national TV ownership reach cap by standing by its calls for its repeal. 

Publicly traded Gray Media has become the first broadcast group to upconvert to HDR across all of its "Big Four" network affiliates, just in time for the upcoming NCAA collegiate football and National Football League seasons. At the same time, it is taking pride in a ATSC 3.0-fueled achievement at its FOX affiliate in New Orleans.

Available through the company’s broader GatesAir Care program, the service provides TV and radio broadcasters with a dedicated team of GatesAir RF experts to monitor transmitter performance, analyze RF conditions, and proactively respond to issues that affect quality of experience and uptime. 

IBC2025, the broadcast media technology industry's second-largest global event behind the annual NAB Show, is scheduled for September 12-15 in Amsterdam. For U.S.-based ENCO, the event is poised to fuel further international interest in its captions and translations products.

What's driving the surge in iHeartMedia shares to a price last seen seven months ago? Perhaps a sizable stock purchase acquisition made by Bob Pittman sparked "IHRT."