Radio & Television Business Report

The ABC Television Network late Wednesday confirmed that it is pulling "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" for an indefinite period in response to comments made by the late-night host concerning the man suspected of murdering Turning Point USA founder and prominent conservative Republican Charlie Kirk on September 10 at a Utah speaking event.

The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025, known in the current Congressional session as H.R. 979, was finally brought to consideration in the House E&C Committee on Wednesday. With strong bipartisan support, it was sent to the full U.S. House of Representatives for a full floor vote — but not without a key adjustment.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr isn't playing around when it comes to "modernizing" local media ownership rules and practices he considers outdated. A Forecast 2026 panel session will break down what’s on the docket for the coming year and how it directly impacts broadcasters. It is a conversation you'll get to be a part of.

Just how frustrating is it for account executives working at local broadcast television stations across the U.S. in today's times? According to newly released data from Guideline, total media spending for local TV is down by more than 50% from just eight years ago.

The broadcast media company controlled by Patricia and Brian Lane and led on a day-to-day basis by COO Gene Steinberg has signed off on the sale of a television station serving a small city in the state of Washington. The buyer? It is a regional operator with a formidable presence in the Pacific Northwest.

Just two days after it shared how it was promoting from within to fill two newly created roles that reflect "the evolving structure" of its sales organization, Skyview Networks has made a second round of business moves it says is designed to "ensure we have the right leadership in place to guide our continued growth."

As public radio begins its new life without federal support through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR executives are adjusting the organization’s budget with Member stations in mind. The NPR board recently met and prepared a balanced budget for the fiscal year that begins October 1, and two big moves are in the works.

A Class C3 FM serving the Hot Springs, Ark., area to the west of Little Rock, is seeing a change in control, one that sees a husband-and-wife duo cede control of the facility to one Alice Bates following the wife's death in April.

Skyview Networks, the national radio enterprise led by President/CEO Steve Jones, has promoted from within to fill two newly created roles that reflect "the evolving structure" of its sales organization.

Tood Noordyk and his Great Lakes Media has agreed to hand an AM radio station in a small city east of Marquette, Mich., with the all-important "AM revitalization" perk at 97.7 MHz to an entity that happens to be the second-largest licensee of radio stations in the U.S. 

On January 16, 2024, the owner of an AM radio station serving Volusia County, Fla., died. Now, paperwork has been submitted with the FCC shifting the station licensed to New Smyrna Beach to the woman who hosts the station's morning show and is a key figure behind the scenes, too.

Broadcast TV station owner Sinclair Inc. has issued a statement saying that the indefinite suspension of late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel by ABC is not enough, and is calling on the network — and the FCC, to “take additional action.”

The new Video Division Chief within the FCC's Media Bureau has opened up a comment period for a proposal that would see a PBS Kansas facility shift from a VHF channel to a UHF position — a move that would upgrade the station serving the Hutchinson market.

The Allen Media Group's free-streaming digital sports platform focused on the nation’s 107 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) has inked a new partnership with one of the biggest advertisers using linear broadcast media, becoming the presenting sponsor of select 2025 HBCU football classics.

The U.S. Census Bureau has released the Educational Attainment in the United States: 2024 table package. It examines the education level of adults age 18 and older by age, sex, race, nativity and other demographic and social characteristics.

Amazon Ads and SiriusXM Media have "forged a strategic programmatic audio advertising integration" designed to provide marketers using Amazon DSP the ability to access the subscription-based satellite and streaming audio operation's digital audio portfolio.