Radio+Television Business Report

Meta's ubiquitous Instagram social media platform is revamping its Teen Accounts as part of a wholesale effort to protect those under the age of 13 from consuming content deemed unsuitable for tweens and younger children. To do so, it is taking a cue from the Motion Picture Association of America.

Is it an independent "Truth-o-Meter" or simply a tool that reinforces the trust consumers have instilled in live and local broadcast television news across the U.S.? Audiences across Indianapolis will soon be the judge, thanks to a pilot project funded by the nonprofit Poynter Institute.

One of the biggest on-demand video platforms in the world has teamed up with the largest streaming audio entity to bring visual podcasts to its subscribers. Indeed, Spotify and Netflix are teaming up. Here's what this means, and why linear media companies may wish to take note.

For nearly four decades, he's enjoyed a career in radio that has resulted in him becoming one of the most listened-to on-air personalities in Southern Nevada. Now, this longtime morning host has revealed that he will retire at the end of October, bringing the "Mike & Carla Morning Show" to its conclusion.

Nexstar Media Group has attracted two well-known seasoned sales executives to its National Sales Group. They are being added to the team as part of a goal to strengthen the organization's commitment to expanding multi-platform advertising and partnership opportunities across Nexstar’s broadcast and digital portfolio.

The FCC on Tuesday proclaimed its "initial success" in “Operation Clean Carts,” an action led by the FCC's Council on National Security designed to rid e-Commerce sites with U.S. customers of the ability to sell equipment produced by Chinese entities deemed a risk to the nation.

The VP/General Manager of the radio industry service company that's parent to such offerings as XTrends, Analyst and Hook Exchange has announced his retirement. The news comes 25 years after he helped launch Cornerstone Research.

ZTransform, which has in recent years built out studio and office space for broadcast stations including KNKX in Seattle, has hired a new Inside Sales and Procurement Manager. It's a move the company says brings "commercial and operational focus to support performance and scale."

GatesAir — a renowned company in the broadcast industry with a history of powering over-the-air networks worldwide for the past 100 years — has landed in the hands of a new owner. It ends three years of operating as a Thomson Broadcast subsidiary.

The future for Central Pennsylvania's lone NPR member radio station and its PBS-aligned TV station sibling is now clearer, ending weeks of uncertainty for the facilities licensed to Penn State University. The stations are en route to being sold, and Philadelphia's leading educational noncomm entity has come to the rescue. 

Canadian radio stations may no longer need to submit a license renewal application, thanks to a "modernization of radio processes" memorandum released Friday by the CRTC. The Commission also moved forward with a one-year trial allowing the long-desired simulcast of an AM station on the FM band in the same market.

The latest play count report indicating what the most active brands are using Spot TV and Spot Cable are out, and for the week ending October 12, a fast-growing accident attorney specialty law firm and a pharmaceutical brand are the biggest users of Spot TV.

A new slate of incoming directors has been approved by the RAB at its biannual board of directors meeting, held last week in Carlsbad, Calif., as the ANA Multicultural and Inclusive Marketing Conference was also being held close by. Who are the incoming directors?

The fresh agreement allows Audacy-owned WJFK-FM 106.7 in Manassas, Va., the longtime all-Sports station serving the National Capital Region, to continue to serve as the flagship audio home of the local NHL and NBA teams. Meanwhile, the station is mourning the loss of Craig Heist.

A short-form audio podcast distributed on platforms such as Apple Podcasts hosted by Newsweek's Senior Editor-At-Large that "charts a path forward for American conservativism and exposes the woke Left" has joined the Salem Podcast Network.

SiriusXM with 360L is ready to make its Toyota debut, and drivers of the new 2026 RAV4 SUV model will be the first to enjoy the technology, which  combines satellite and streaming content delivery into a single, cohesive in-vehicle entertainment system.

In April 2022, RBR+TVBR readers first learned of how RFS expanded the existing RFS antenna and combiner infrastructure atop 1WTC, enabling delivery of NEXTGEN TV in the New York Tri-State Area. Now, that TV station is the home of MediaCo Holding Co.'s Spanish-language broadcast TV network.

There's a new Program Director in place for the KHCB Media Group, which has long enjoyed a dominant position among Christian-themed audio brands in Houston and, in more recent years, adjacent markets in the Lone Star State.

Gray Television is moving ahead with a trio of station acquisition deals in the wake of a federal appeals court striking down the FCC’s “Top Four” ownership ban, as the Commission’s Media Bureau has the pleading cycle for public comment with petitions to deny due next week — assuming the federal government reopens.

The federal government may be shut down and more than 1,000 FCC staffers remain on unpaid leave, but that hasn't deterred individuals from submitting comments on GN 16-142 — authorizing the permissive use of the "Next Generation" broadcast TV standard known as ATSC 3.0 — on the Commission's ECFS.