3 months ago
A Class C3 FM serving the Burlington, Vt.-Plattsburgh, N.Y. market as an Air1 Worship Music affiliate is poised to become an owned station with the Educational Media Foundation family. That's according to paperwork filed with the FCC on Thursday seeking its regulatory approval of the transaction.
Adam Jacobson
3 months ago
"SuperFrank" Copsidas has decided to part ways with a Class A digital LPTV station licensed to a small town in Indiana between Kokomo and Indianapolis. The buyer is the Norman Shapiro-led, Chicago-based company that is the parent of the MeTV Network and broadcast TV stations in the Windy City and in Milwaukee, among other locales.
Adam Jacobson
3 months ago
RW Staff
3 months ago
A "reimagined" advertising sales and integrated marketing division at Sinclair Inc.'s broadcast group and a "dynamic new brand focused on news-news content and original programming" has been launched by the company led by Chris Ripley and Rob Weisbord.
Adam Jacobson
3 months ago
RBR+TVBR has learned that a Fresno-area owner of broadcast TV stations in such markets as Bakersfield; LaCrosse and Wausau, Wisc.; Beaumont-Port Arthur, Tex.; and Yuma, Ariz. has signed on with brokerage Hadden & Associates in a bid to find the right buyer for its assets.
Adam Jacobson
3 months ago
Exactly two years ago, RBR+TVBR shared the news that the golf league backed by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) had signed a multi-year agreement with Nexstar Media Group that made The CW its home for 2023 and 2024. That relationship has ended.
Adam Jacobson
3 months ago
Gracie Slentz
3 months ago
He began his radio career in New Orleans and has experience that includes serving as COO for Apex Broadcasting, and as VP of Radio for Griffin Communications. He's been on his second tour of duty at Cox Media Group since 2019, and in one month he's transferring from San Antonio to Atlanta to take the helm of its radio stations.
Adam Jacobson
3 months ago
The FCC has denied four complaints and petitions that she believes "seek to curtail freedom of the press and undermine the First Amendment." This includes the Media and Democracy Project petition to deny the license renewal of a Philadelphia TV station owned by FOX Television Stations.
Adam Jacobson
3 months ago
Just one day after RBR+TVBR confirmed that Imagicomm Communications has decided to sell all of the broadcast television stations it acquired as part of FCC-required CMG divestments in August 2022, Kalil & Co. has revealed that four stations in two DMAs have already found a buyer.
Adam Jacobson
3 months ago
Paul McLane
3 months ago
He was a backup catcher between 1962 and 1967, playing for four teams before shifting to the broadcast booth and a career in entertainment that included a role on the 1980s sitcom "Mr. Belvedere" and as "Harry Doyle" in the feature film "Major League." Now, baseball fans everywhere are paying tribute to Bob Uecker, who has died.
Adam Jacobson
3 months ago
Comscore Content Measurement (CCM), a new cross-platform product offering, has been brought to market by the data analytics and consumer consumption firm seeking to build a greater presence in the broadcast TV space.
RBR-TVBR
3 months ago
The nation's No. 1 owner of broadcast TV stations, the NewsNation MVPD-distributed cable TV network and WGN Radio has decided when it will report its fourth quarter 2024 financial results. What can investors and analysts expect to hear from Nexstar Media Group?
Adam Jacobson
3 months ago
As previously reported, Dan Finn will officially retire from Beasley Media Group at the end of March 2025 after a distinguished career in broadcasting.
We now know who is succeeding him.
Adam Jacobson
3 months ago
WARC says global ad spend has more than doubled over the last decade, growing 2.8x faster than global economic output since 2014, with more media channels available to marketers than ever before. But, should that excite linear media leaders who continue to experience core ad weakness with few growth prospects?
Adam Jacobson
3 months ago
The conservative-leaning cable and digital news and political commentary network founded by Chris Ruddy is extending a preferred stock private offering a second time, due to high demand from investors.
Adam Jacobson
3 months ago
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