The first Thursday of November is shaping up to be a morning with back-to-back quarterly earnings calls, with TEGNA, Nexstar Media Group and Saga Communications already on the calendar. Now you can add iHeartMedia to the mix, with an early AM conference call placed on the calendar for November 7.
The new VP will lead the implementation, expansion, and support of advanced operational technologies, including High Dynamic Range Video (HDR). He will also manage conformance testing and develop operational handoff processes for ATSC 3.0 NextGen Broadcasting.
Three decades of service as Beasley Media Group's Chief Financial Officer will conclude at the end of October for Marie Tedesco, as the publicly traded radio station owner in markets such as Tampa-St. Petersburg, Boston, Detroit and its home of Fort Myers-Naples has revealed her successor.
Neal Ardman has agreed to part ways with a 250-watt FM translator serving Brunswick, Ga., in a freshly filed transaction that awaits regulatory approval. Who is the buyer?
She's served as the Chief Marketing Officer at iHeartMedia and as one of company's key forward-facing leaders at high-profile Cannes Lions events for the last several years. Now, after a decade in the position, Gayle Troberman is shifting to a senior advisor role at the nation's largest owner of broadcast radio stations.
Add the Chris Forgy-helmed Saga Communications to the list of broadcast media companies that intend to release their third quarter earnings results on November 7. What can investors expect to hear from Forgy and CFO Sam Bush?
Looking for what promises to be a realistic, no-holds-barred analysis of the current and future value of broadcast assets? A Forecast 2025 panel discussion to be moderated by someone with leadership experience in both radio and TV is just the place you'll want to be.
The Minister of Canadian Heritage, which oversee the nation's public broadcasting giant known as the CBC, has appointed the President/CEO of TV 5 Québec as the next head of CBC/Radio-Canada. She will serve a five-year term.
The owner of seven radio brands serving Sacramento has announced who will be its next Senior VP and Market Manager, following the recent exit of market veteran Stacey Kauffman. He's inbound from Phoenix, where his replacement has also been named by Audacy.
A formal proceeding launched Wednesday by the Commission will offer a "QC" checkup, if you will, of the customer service providers of cable, broadband, satellite TV, and voice services give their customers. A new Notice of Inquiry seeks information on current customer service practices and is designed to benefit consumers.
In late August, RBR+TVBR first reported on the acquisition of an FM and Class D AM sibling to a buyer that's "driven," as the newly formed media company is led by the owner of a Chevrolet dealership in Stratford, Tex. Now, Corey Naugle is adding another FM station — this one some 75 miles southeast of Stratford — to his newly formed Driven Media.
The first NEXTGEN TV launch in the Caribbean is on its way, as the first phase of a ATSC 3.0 deployment strategy has been completed thanks to the ongoing efforts of Maine-based Sinclair Inc. subsidiary Dielectric.
The individual who served in the role today held by Adam Symson between 1985 and 1998 has died at the age of 89. Larry Leser is being remembered by many across the industry, including former Scripps head Rich Boehne, who calls Leser "a brilliant strategist, decisive and never afraid of taking risks.”
If it were up to automakers such as GM, Ford and Toyota, any U.S. legislative mandate requiring them to include an AM radio in every vehicle's in-dash entertainment system should be stopped. And, they've collectively spent millions of dollars to prevent the legislation from forward advancement on Capitol Hill.
As September began, it became known that Mike Carr would be transferring from Fresno to run the ABC Owned Stations sibling serving Houston. Now, Carr's successor has been revealed.
Connected TV advertising measurement and delivery platform Innovid is teaming up with Alltold, a "responsible technology pioneer building AI to understand bias, stereotypes, and inclusion in creative content," for a report that shares "the state of representation" in Connected TV spots.
Pat Roberts, President/CEO of the FAB, discusses the vital importance of live and local broadcasters to Florida in this conversation we share as the 2024 hurricane season nears its close, and our Fall 2024 magazine readies its completion with a feature on two Florida TV stations' efforts during Hurricane Milton.
A three-way partnership between a trio of Hispanic men who have teamed to form BMax Media in the Baltimore suburb of Dundalk, Md., have agreed to purchase an AM radio station that's long been associated with a longtime local broadcast ministry.
Four individuals, including a child, have died as a result of a helicopter accident that led to the collapse to a radio tower in Houston, crippling broadcasts for two TelevisaUnivision FMs. The FAA is investigating; the FCC may be next. According to KTRK-13, the red aviation obstruction lights at the top of the structure "have a history of not working."
Public media stations in Hawaii, Kentucky, Missouri, and South Dakota will receive a total of up to $1.7 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to upgrade their equipment to provide enhanced emergency alerting. With these grants, CPB has awarded funding to 35 public media stations in 19 states via the NGWS grant program.
