Radio+Television Business Report

The founder and Chairman/CEO of the nation’s largest single owner of broadcast television stations will be staying in that role for another 40 months and two weeks.

As Triton Digital sees it, the platform's launch "taps into the growing wave of AI-driven creative tools" designed to reshape how small and mid-sized businesses access digital audio advertising. "It’s a big step in making premium audio inventory more accessible and automated," the company says.

According to police reports, Pierre was found deceased in his home on Wednesday. The circumstances surrounding his passing are not yet known. No foul play is suspected.

NBCUniversal has extended an exclusive relationship with iHeartMedia tied to the Olympics by giving it the U.S. audio rights to the upcoming Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, scheduled for February 6-22, 2026 in Italy.

He's been at a pair of Nexstar Media Group TV stations serving Oklahoma City as its Director of Sales. He's also been a key leader at Sinclair Inc.'s crosstown properties. Now, he's returning to those two OKC stations while also taking on the top slot for Sinclair's Tulsa TV property.

Internet technology outages are costly. Not only do they take time to address, but there are dollars at stake, a new report from "Intelligent Observability" company New Relic reveals. Just how much money could a media company lose due to downtime?

A Kentucky-based firm devoted to omnichannel advertising tech opportunities for marketers and advertisers interest in visual brand messaging is celebrating the decision of an Illinois Federal District Court Judge to proceed with an antitrust case against one of the nation's biggest MVPDs and its spot cable arm.

Walmart’s acquisition of Vizio and the rollout of its proprietary operating system across the Onn. TV brand is expected to propel CastOS to become the largest operating system by shipments in North America. That finding comes courtesy of Omdia’s quarterly TV Design and Features Forecast tracker.

As 2025 began, the battle between the "sports-first" virtual MVPD and FOX Corporation, Warner Bros. Discovery and ESPN's parent ended. The conclusion of litigation saw FuboTV agree to the company's acquisition by The Walt Disney Co. Now, nearly 11 months later, the transaction is complete.

Longtime television talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw has been ordered to liquidate all of the assets tied to his Merit Street Media — an abrupt shift to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy for the entity that some 20 months ago had high hopes for a prime-time show from a state-of-the-air Dallas broadcast center. 

AI-fueled content identification and monetization specialist Veritone Inc. has expanded its partnership with CBS News to include many of CBS Media Venture's entertainment properties, thanks to a new deal announced Tuesday.

He was widely known as the head of Birach Broadcasting Corp. and a collection of multicultural, ethnic radio stations found in a variety of markets. Now, many across the radio industry and the Serbian Orthodox community of greater Detroit are paying their respects to Sima Birach, who has died at the age of 86.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has formally asked a federal judge to deny NPR’s request for a preliminary injunction and summary judgment, claiming the public radio organization’s claims are “at sharp odds with the record.”

The new deal will allow Veritone to collaborate with Skyview’s sales leadership team on the VeriAds offering, which provides Veritone’s broadcast customers opportunities to generate new, incremental advertising revenue with reduced operational support.

Due to the nature of the event, seats at Forecast 2026 are extremely limited. If you want to be part of the next big moves, it starts by being in the room with the people making them. Secure your place at this VIP event in the City of New York before your competitor beats you to it.

DuJuan McCoy's Circle City Broadcasting is poised to grow beyond the pair of properties it has owned for six years with a just-announced deal for Indianapolis' ABC affiliate. It's a station that The E.W. Scripps Co. acquired in a multi-station deal exactly 14 years ago.

A Fifth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that seeks comment on rule changes designed to support the nation's ongoing transition to ATSC 3.0 digital broadcast signals, which power NEXTGEN TV, has gotten an affirmative nod to proceed from all three of the FCC's Commissioners. 

A growing philosophical split is emerging at the FCC over the scope of its authority and the definition of “public interest” in modern broadcasting, and both NPR and PBS Member stations are in the Carr Commission's crosshairs. This generated warnings from Anna Gómez, as Brendan Carr justified the investigations.

As of today, paperwork needed for FCC approval of the proposed blockbuster sale of TEGNA to Nexstar Media Group hasn't yet been filed, and any regulatory OK of the deal isn't expected until 2026, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has shared.

Four broadcast audio brands serving California's state capital region owned by Bonneville International have a new leader, and it is the individual who has spent the last five years serving as Director of Sales for the licensee's Seattle radio stations.