The E.W. Scripps Company has promoted Sean McGarvy to Senior Director of Digital News and Content Strategy. Starting June 16, McGarvy will lead the strategic direction for news content across Scripps News Group’s digital platforms, both national and local.
In an increasingly fragmented media environment, Americans continue to place their first bets on local television when news breaks. According to a new report, local TV news remains the leading source for breaking news among U.S. adults, significantly outpacing digital and national broadcast alternatives.
Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio has opened the application window for its 2025 Elevating Women in Programming Mentorship, continuing a seven-year tradition of fostering leadership development for women in broadcast programming roles.
Raccoon Valley Radio, a trio of small-market stations serving central Iowa, is changing hands for the first time since 2012. That year, M&H Broadcasting acquired KDLS-AM in Perry, KKRF in Stuart, and KGRA in Jefferson for $525,000. Now, those same stations and two FM translators are fetching a much higher sum.
Nielsen has reportedly signed a landmark multiyear agreement with the WNBA and NBA to provide official viewership measurement across linear television and streaming platforms. Such a deal would be the largest commercial measurement agreement the firm has reached with a women’s sports league.
DraftKings and Dan Le Batard's Meadowlark Media are extending their multiyear partnership, reaffirming their content distribution and sponsorship agreement that began in 2021. Under the renewed deal, the two companies will continue to collaborate on distribution across multiple platforms.
A federal judge has approved a 45-day pause in a lawsuit brought by SoundExchange Inc. against Sirius XM Radio Inc., giving the parties time to explore a potential settlement in a case centered on more than $150 million in alleged unpaid royalties.
Despite a mostly flat financial performance to start 2025, Saga Communications has declared a quarterly cash dividend from the company's existing cash reserves. The Chris-Forgy-led broadcaster is also weighing a stock buyback through the remainder of the year.
iHeartMedia's Black Information Network has entered a multi-year collaboration with The Obama Foundation aimed at deepening youth engagement and civic participation. The effort will focus on elevating stories and programs that promote awareness and community impact, including the foundation’s Leaders Program.
National Public Radio and three of its Colorado member stations have filed a sweeping federal lawsuit to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ceasing federal funding for the organization and PBS, calling it an unprecedented attack on press freedom and an illegal effort to dismantle public broadcasting.
With a Republican majority at the FCC days away, Commissioner Nathan Simington is signaling that broadcast media regulations in particular will be among the first ones to be slashed under Chairman Brendan Carr's "Delete, Delete, Delete" mandate.
A fire that broke out early Saturday morning, May 24, has destroyed the longtime broadcast home of WBNO and WQCT in Bryan, Ohio. The structure was deemed a total loss after the blaze engulfed the facility, which had hosted both stations since the 1960s.
A silent FM signal in southern Utah is back on the air with a new format and a pending sale. KCAY 100.7 FM, now branded Key 100, is the subject of an acquisition deal between SSR Communications and Media Advisors LLC, following FCC considerations into whether the station must relocate across the state line into Nevada.
Quick-service restaurants have traditionally relied on linear television to build brand recognition and drive traffic to stores, yet, unlike digital platforms, where the path from ad exposure to online conversion is easily tracked, TV’s influence has been harder to measure. But a new study from ad analytics firm EDO suggests that’s changing.
Radio's "Digital First Local Media Company" has announced that senior executives will participate in two virtual investor events over the next two weeks, offering updates and engaging directly with shareholders and potential investors.
If 20/20 is perfect vision, then the price that Cox Media Group has agreed on to sell its five-station radio cluster in Tulsa, Okla., to a local eye doctor and entrepreneur may be a very good omen, as CMG makes its second full-market divestiture in as many years.
As Memorial Day ushered in the unofficial start of summer, home improvement retailers surged to the top of the national radio advertising rankings, marking a strategic shift in seasonal marketing ahead of peak travel and renovation season, according to Media Monitors’ Spot Ten Radio rankings for the week of May 19–25.
Over-the-Top sports streaming platform Fubo is the latest service to double down on female-focused athletics, introducing a new Women’s Sports Zone aimed at consolidating coverage and capitalizing on heightened audience interest and advertiser demand.
FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez will bring her First Amendment Tour to Los Angeles next week, marking the campaign’s first stop outside Washington as she prepares to become the ranking - and only - Democrat on the Commission.
Streaming television continued its upward climb in April 2025, capturing a record 44.3% of total TV viewing, according to Nielsen’s latest edition of The Gauge. For the third consecutive month, YouTube ranked as the top media distributor, growing to a platform-high 12.4% of all television usage - its largest share to date.
