The iHeartMedia stations serving the home of Major League Baseball's Brewers have a new Vice President of Sales. She'll work closely with the stations' sales executives to deliver "innovative marketing solutions for advertisers" across the company's broadcast, digital, and live event platforms.
A writer at large for The New York Times focused on media and politics is to thank for getting the Chairman of the Federal Communications Communications to suggest that a tiered premium licensee opportunity could be one way a broadcast radio or TV station would be able to avoid adhering to strict public interest obligations.
Jim Rutenberg, a writer for The New York Times, asked Brendan Carr during a post-November Open Meeting press conference on Tuesday if the FCC should look at programs such as "The View" to see whether the ABC chat show and similar programs are bona fide news or something running afoul of Commission rules.
As FCC Chairman Brendan Carr sees it, Nexstar and Sinclair pre-empting "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" because the groups each did not believe network programming supplied to them was fit for their viewers amounts to a "significant win" if the goal is to empower local TV stations to comply with their public interest obligations.
Hearst Media Production Group will begin provide programming for a three-hour educational and informational (E/I) block on a nationally distributed Spanish-language digital multicast network that's part of NBCUniversal Local's Telemundo Station Group.
The voice of the nation's broadcast media Inside the Beltway on Wednesday issued a statement that, while designed as a voice of support for TelevisaUnivision in its carriage fee dispute with YouTube TV, also served as an opportunity to blast a key member of the "GAFAN" group.
She's based in Florida's state capital and has been an active trader of low power television properties in recent years. Now, Kristina Bruni is agreeing to acquire a LPTV property in two of the biggest markets in the Lone Star State.
A noncommercial FM radio station serving Astoria, Ore., will go dark on Wednesday, silencing its emissions. The reason why has everything to do with Washington, D.C., and Capitol Hill, and not the State of Washington, where the station's tower is located.
The Media Bureau's Audio Division, on its own motion, is proposing to amend the Table of FM Allotments by substituting the FM channel or class for five existing vacant FM allotments located in various communities in Alabama, California, and Texas. Why? Compliance with minimum distance separation requirements is the reason.
The NAB and two of its Radio industry members have each issued official statements in response to the FCC's 3-0 approval of a plan to move ahead with its delayed 2022 Quadrennial Review of the nation's media ownership rules.
As expected, shareholders of NYSE-traded FuboTV Inc., parent of the eponymous "sports-first" virtual MVPD platform, have approved the company's previously announced transaction with The Walt Disney Company that effectively combines Fubo’s business with the Hulu + Live TV business.
The publicly traded media company controlled by the family that founded it more than 60 years ago has confirmed that it is seeking a new VP of Operations, after reports surfaced over the weekend that he'd departed.
Three months ago, he had been named "Fractional Chief Revenue Officer" at Gemini XIII, a tweak in a role he first gained in October 2023 at the audio media company. Now, he's settling into a role as Region President for Dallas at the nation's largest single owner of AM and FM stations.
Following a brief protest of Chairman Carr, the FCC on Tuesday advanced a NPRM that would start the Commission’s quadrennial regulatory review of its broadcast ownership rules and seek public comment on whether — given the current state of the media marketplace — it should retain, modify, or eliminate any of these rules.
A half-day full of sessions of particular appeal to more than 150 C-suite executives and senior leaders from across the broadcast TV and media industry is being finalized for the 2025 TVB Executive Summit, scheduled for October 9 at Hearst Tower on West 57th Street.
The parent company of multicultural digital content platforms Nuestro Stories, Minivela, and Nuestro Studios and a programmatic advertising technology services business has formed a strategic alliance with the Spanish-language audio network founded by CEO José Villafañe.
A newly released study from the largest media company in the U.S. superserving Black consumers "has unconvered compelling evidence" that African American culture — and Blacks of Caribbean heritage — is not only shaping mainstream U.S. culture but is "defining it."
A D.C. think tank has teamed up with more than 70 legal scholars and free speech groups to express their concerns over recent threats by Brendan Carr "to punish broadcasters for airing constitutionally protected speech—an attempt to pressure media outlets through vague legal claims and regulatory intimidation."
After 11 years of ownership, Beasley Media Group has officially completed its sale of a Class C2 FM that once served as a hub for Smooth Jazz for listeners across the Tampa Bay region. As of Monday, it became the latest market for CCM giant K-LOVE.
BET Media Group and free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) platform Pluto TV are expanding their partnership by bringing more BET content to a platform that is increasingly attracting viewers.
