Radio+Television Business Report

Get After It Media (GAIM), the national digital multicast network company that's parent to Retro TV, The Heartland Network, The Action Channel, The Family Channel, and Rev’n, has a new Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering.

It is a group dedicated to protecting journalists and their sources, and in March made it clear that Brendan Carr's decision to investigate "news distortion" claims at the FCC made against CBS News "is a scare tactic, spectacle and show trial." Now, a liberal-leaning foundation has taken its quarrel with Carr up a notch.

"We made significant progress in the quarter toward our strategic growth initiatives," says CEO Jon Kirchner. "However, as the quarter progressed, the changing macroeconomic environment created increased uncertainty for our customers, ultimately impacting our financial results for the quarter."

The Vice President and General Sales Manager of "FOX 6" in Milwaukee has added similar responsibilities for the FOX Television Stations duo serving nearby Chicago, overseeing all day-to-day sales efforts across three properties.

Spotify Technology S.A. shares tumbled by more than 10% on Tuesday morning, following the release of the streaming audio Goliath's Q2 2025 results — a performance that fell short of analysts expectations and those of its shareholders.

A mobile unit dispatched from Mobile TV Group headquarters in Englewood, Colo., is offering live production to a Major League Baseball team, a National Basketball Association franchise and a storied National Hockey League club's telecast home, a regional sports network formed as a result of the Diamond Sports Group bankruptcy.

Audio-visual tech company Kramer has brought to market it new MTX3-88-PR-PRO all-in-one matrix, a product that is designed to high-performance video processing and scaler-based clean switching capabilities to its users.

Window to the World Communications has signed off on a consent decree with the Chief of the FCC Media Bureau's Video Division that concludes the Commission's investigation into violations of its online public inspection file rules.

The ABC affiliate serving Southern Nevada has named a new leader of its sales team. He'll be taking the position of Director of Sales at The E.W. Scripps Co.-owned KTNV-13 and its unaffiliated sibling on August 4.

Pearl TV counsel Max Larson and Gerard Waldron at Covington & Burling have provided the FCC with more details on just how HDHomeRun depends on a chipset manufactured by HiSilicon, a wholly-owned Huawei Technologies subsidiary.

The latest Media Monitors Spot Ten TV reports are out for broadcast and cable activity for the week ending July 27, and the big news involves a venerable Unilever health and beauty aid brand that has emerged as a significant user of both Spot Cable and Spot Television.

Fubo has filed a preliminary proxy statement seeking shareholder approval of the "Sports First" vMVPD's previously announced — and pending — business combination with The Walt Disney Company’s Hulu + Live TV. Most market observers consider this a mere formality, with Fubo's sale tied to the death of Venu Sports.

What happens when you fail to pay your regulatory fees associated with an AM radio station for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2022 and 2023, and it’s nearly halfway through 2025? You pay up or show cause as to why you can’t. A Kentucky station owner did neither. Now, the station's license has been lost.

The use of a FM booster station to originate programming in order to bring Geo Broadcast Services' ZoneCasting technology to its full fruition is now wholly allowable for those operators who wish to invest in it.

Gray Media late Friday shared that it has completed its previously announced offering of $775 million aggregate principal amount of 7.250% senior secured first lien notes due 2033. The Notes were issued at par.

Global outplacement and business and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas has taken note of an emerging trend of companies’ reliance on interim leadership that's certainly worthy of media industry attention.

The E.W. Scripps Co. has launched an offering of $650 million of new senior secured second-lien notes. Scripps, which made the announcement ahead of Monday's Opening Bell on Wall Street, says the notes are expected to mature in 2030.

The Federal Communications Commission’s Rules for an upcoming AWS-3 auction will pave the way for approximately 200 spectrum licenses to come to market. The FCC's spectrum auction authority had expired under President Biden and getting it back was a chief priority of Chairman Brendan Carr.

The owner of properties including KTTV-11 in L.A. has selected the Monarch Revenue Management and CRM platform to drive operational efficiency, enhance visibility, and optimize advertising revenue across their growing portfolio of linear, digital, OTT, and CTV channels.

It's a Class D AM licensed to Somonauk, Ill., with an FM translator targeting such far-suburban Chicago communities as Sandwich, Yorkville and Newark.  Nelson Multimedia is not selling them, but it's just submitted documents with the FCC requiring its approval on an ownership tweak.