Radio & Television Business Report

As of today, Gray Media's presence in Oregon is comprised of the home of "FOX 12" and its broadcast sibling known to locals as "FOX 12 Plus" until earlier this year, when it was reborn as Rose City SportsNet. Now, Gray is poised to grow a little larger in the Beaver State, thanks to a deal with SagamoreHill.

They are properties operated by Sinclair Inc. via a shared services agreement with a licensee operated by political commentator and entrepreneur Armstrong Williams. On August 20, Williams moved forward with turning that SSA into outright ownership for Sinclair. The FCC has granted the assignment of authorization request for one of the stations.

As previously argued, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro stated, the Disney unit's argument "fails because the impetus for the early renewal processing of Plaintiffs’ broadcast licenses was the need for more information to support the Commission’s antidiscrimination investigation."

The FCC head is "deeply concerned" by the position more than 60 House Democratics are taking regarding what he calls "the right of parents to know whether their sons or daughters are being exposed to controversial gender identity ideologies" in TV shows rated as appropriate for young children.

For several years, the popular refrain among many radio industry observers is that younger, Generation Z and Generation Alpha audio content consumers aren't tuning to FM radio. While that's debatable, a new study suggests Gen Z and Gen Alpha video consumers are largely tuning out local TV news — at least on TV.

"The Fan" will no longer be the official radio home of the National Basketball Association club that calls the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul home. And, in a move that makes the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act's pending Senate vote ever more urgent, the team's new flagship is on the kHz band.

It's a Class D AM radio station with an FM translator serving the second-largest metropolitan area of Oregon, offering a Sports Talk format to local listeners. Pending regulatory approval, the facilities will become the property of a bulldog.

Effective immediately, KXL-FM's news muscle will get a vitamin boost courtesy of the Nexstar Media Group-owned CBS affiliate serving the Rose City. A new partnership is in effect that will see KOIN-6's journalists assist the Connoisseur Media station on delivery of key stories in a timely manner.

They're a winner in the NHL, with a legion of fans across the Silver State who have adopted the team as their own, gobbling up knowledge of a sport that arrived in Southern Nevada a decade ago. Now, the official radio partner of the Vegas Golden Knights is changing with the 2026-2027 season.

Five individuals central to the leadership of Leighton Radio Holdings have agreed to redeem their shares in the Leighton Enterprises subsidiary — a move that makes the parent company's employee stock ownership plan the sole shareholder of the radio station licensee.

The RAB autumn Board of Directors meeting concluded last Thursday with a new slate of officers and directors, unanimously approved at the Northeast Ohio-based affair. Serving as Chair: Cox Media Group's Radio head, Rob Babin.

The Gray Media flagship television station that enjoys a broadcast rights agreement with the Atlanta Hawks National Basketball Association club has scored an official broadcast sponsor for its season-long telecasts.

Its licensee name is Ventana Television, but when one takes a closer look at who is involved, they'll find the name of the Associate General Counsel at home shopping brand QVC. He's has signed off on a deal that will deliver a collection of low-power broadcast TV stations to HC2 Broadcasting.

Advertising operations platform XR (Extreme Reach) and political advertising intelligence platform Kinetiq Political Insights have forged an integration initiative designed to help political advertisers across the U.S. "make faster, more informed media, market, and messaging decisions during the mid-term campaign cycle."

Valari Staab, the Chairman of NBCUniversal Local who oversees both NBC and Telemundo-branded owned stations and the NBC Sports Regional Networks, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 RBR+TVBR Lifetime Leadership Award. She'll receive it at Forecast 2027 on November 12 in New York.

Gray Media Chief Operating Officer Sandy Breland will serve as Television Co-Chair of Forecast 2027, which has an agenda that keeps growing by the week. Now in its 24th year, the annual broadcast and finance leadership summit will be presented on November 12 at the Harvard Club of New York.