Radio & Television Business Report

The parent company of Rocky Mountain PBS, Jazz-focused KUVO-FM in Denver and HD2 "Urban Alternative" offering "The Drop" is the latest noncommercial educational entity that has chosen to downsize after a Republican-led Congress effort crippled federal funds distributed through the CPB.

All three vote-making Commissioners on the FCC have said yes to revised foreign ownership review requirements the Republican majority believes "maintain strong national security review processes while providing greater clarity for foreign investment."

Dollars derived from Rogers' purchase of the stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment held by the parent of Bell Media played a key role in the year-over-year performance. So did the American League pennant won by the company's Toronto Blue Jays MLB baseball club.

“The Evolving Ear: How New Listeners are Shaping Podcasting's Next Chapter" probes "first-year" podcast listeners—those who started listening within the last year and represent 20% of U.S. weekly podcast consumers—comparing their behaviors to "long-timers" who have been listening for five years or more.

In an opinion piece, American Enterprise Institute nonresident Senior Fellow Daniel Lyons "unpacks" the FCC's "Equal Time Rule," which he says has been resurrected by the Commissioner under the leadership of Brendan Carr. He also explores "its ongoing validity in a diverse media environment."

A former home of a Polish-language Full Service radio brand serving Chicago has been sold. And, in a sign that kHz-band radio is imperiled in even the largest of markets, the final purchase price is in the tens of thousands of dollars — rather than hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The FM sports station serving Portland, Ore., and owned by Audacy that recently replaced a Hot Adult Contemporary brand has become the new flagship radio home for the local Major League Soccer club.

It's a transaction that first gained radio industry attention in August 2025. Now, the deal is complete, putting K-LOVE in Milwaukee-Racine with the acquisition of two FM radio stations that are shifting from respective commercial formats to non-commercial Christian music brands.

Townsquare Media has announced when it will release its Q4 2025 financial results and subsequently hold a conference call for investors and financial analysts, during which it will discuss the "local first" media company's performance and 2026 projections.

Last week, it became known that RCS Sound Software SVP of Asia and Pacific Keith Williams would retire on March 31 after more than two decades with the iHeartMedia-owned enterprise benefiting radio programming leaders around the globe. Now, it has become known that RCS's President/CEO has decided to retire, too.

Paperwork submitted to the FCC for its regulatory approval has formally disclosed the amount of money Audacy Inc. will be receiving from its sale of a Westerly, R.I.-licensed Class B FM station that has served as a simulcast partner of Sports Talk WEEI Radio in Boston.

Hey, it's a good dividend already ... right?  Nexstar Media Group's Board of Directors has elected to maintain its current dividend rate. That said, it is one of the biggest cash rewards out there when it comes to broadcast media stocks.

CBS Atlanta, which debuted on August 16, 2025, as WUPA-69 took the network affiliation from Gray Media's WANF-46, has launched its new weekday early morning newscast. It's a 60-minute offering, airing in the 6am hour ahead of CBS Mornings.

Are your radio or TV stations serving a unique audience of first-generation Americans or newly arrived immigrants? Here's a sobering statistic that could explain why advertising challenges and revenue growth were so severe for many multicultural media operations in 2025.

Here's the biggest takeaway from a newly released report from Hub Entertainment Research that you may want to read after dinner this evening: Rising social and creator video consumption is reducing time spent with television. 

After joining the association earlier this month, it is now known that Dagmara Szulce will be taking on the duties of a longtime Group Exec. VP at the ANA who is ready to spend more time with his wife and "get that work/life balance back" — but is not retiring.