Thursday, April 17, 2025

Dana Neves

Gray Promotes From Within To Fill A Key Management Role

There's a new leader for several Gray Media markets across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Region of the U.S. And, it is the woman who for the past seven years has been General Manager of WFSB-3 in Hartford, a former Meredith Local Media property that has long-served as Connecticut's CBS affiliate.
Patrick Quinn, PQ Media

Digital, Linear Media Use Rises In 2024

Global consumer media usage, including all digital and traditional media channels, increased 2.4% in 2024 to an average of 57.2 hours per week, following a sharp deceleration in time spent with media growth in 2023. That's according to new findings in a just-released report from PQ Media.

Broadcast News’ Ad-Dollar Blues: A Real Pain, Says WARC

As RBR+TVBR has shared with readers across 2025, ad dollars to content publishers and broadcasters have only come in spurts. A newly released report from WARC examines the conundrum — along with a potentially alarming shift in ad spend from what WARC calls "professionally produced content" to "user-generated and 'creator-journalists'."

Pharma: TV Advertising Is Key

Multiscreen TV encourages ailment sufferers to educate themselves for better health. That is a chief takeaway from the newly released Video Advertising Bureau (VAB) report, "Dedicated to Your Good Health: How TV Drives Discovery & Encourages Education in the Pharma DTC Category."
Rick Kaplan

A Bigger, Broader NAB Call For FCC Rule Reform

The NAB's legal team late Friday filed a 145-page manifesto with the FCC that repeats its request for the elimination of the national TV ownership rule. Of note is a new request from the association that says the Commission "should scale back rules that micromanage radio broadcasts."
Acting FCC Media Bureau Chief Erin Boone

Another ‘Top Four’ Waiver Granted By Carr Commission

One month ago, Gray Media cheered the first new combination of top-four rated television stations this decade, with the FCC under Chairman Brendan Carr granting a waiver of its local ownership rules. The Carr Commission has now approved a deal that puts Brian and Patricia Lane on a fast track to closing.

Bob Mackay

Mackay to Lead Audacy’s DFW Radio Stations

The individual who has served as VP of Sales for Audacy‘s radio stations in North Texas since January 2024 has been elevated to the role of SVP/Market Manager.

Which Sales Leader Deserves a Medallas de Cortez?

Is there a Director of Sales or winning Sales Manager deserving of an honor? Have a favorite marketing campaign? Celebrate both by recognizing their attention-grabbing campaigns that create excitement and help drive attention to Hispanic radio and among Hispanic consumers.

Haddon Agrees To Sell ‘The Valley’

Roger S. Haddon is known across the radio broadcasting industry for his time as a Music Director, as a Program Director and as the President/CEO of the Sunbury Broadcasting Corp., comprised of four radio stations. Haddon has now decided to sell one of those properties.

GeoBroadcast Services Suggests Main Transmitter Rule Deletion

Who needs to follow a main transmitter rule when boosters can provide a better signal to a more significant population? That's the argument ZoneCasting and MaxxCasting provider GeoBroadcast Services is making to the FCC in a petition tied to its "Delete. Delete. Delete" rule review initiative.
Townsquare Media Group

Townsquare Media, Saga Join The May 8 Earnings Parade

Add a fourth and fifth broadcast media company — and the first radio station ownership groups — to the roster of publicly traded FCC licensees that will be reporting their Q1 2025 financial results on the second Thursday of May.
Tom Birch

Birch Wins A Clearer Path To Listeners For ‘US 98.3’

In September 2024, Tom Birch filed an interference complaint with the FCC against Don Curtis, claiming his Class C3 FM licensed to Clarksville, Va., was being harmed by a 150-watt FM translator designed to expressly serve the cities of Cary and Raleigh, N.C. Birch is now celebrating a victory for his "US 98.3."
Senan Mele

BIA Appoints a New Forecast VP As Ovadia Seeks Radio Ownership

She joined BIA Advisory Services as VP of Forecasting and Analysis. As of today, there's a new individual in that role at the media market intelligence firm based in Northern Virginia. What does this mean for Nicole Ovadia? She wants to buy a radio station.

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A Missouri AM Ready For New Ownership

It is a 1kw Class C facility on the AM band that offers residents of a Mid-Missouri town St. Louis Blues hockey coverage, St. Louis Cardinals baseball games, University of Missouri sports and is a sibling to the "Your World Today" local news brand.  Soon, it will have different ownership.

TEGNA Has The Fever For Several More Seasons

The WNBA's Indiana Fever and WTHR-13, the TEGNA-owned NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, have reached a multi-year extension of their distribution agreement. This will see WTHR or MeTV-affiliated sibling WALV-TV air 18 of the Fever's games.

Scripps Subsidiary Launches FAST Channels On Tablo

The E.W. Scripps Co.'s Nuvyyo USA subsidiary, the company behind the Tablo TV device, has debuted new free ad-supported streaming television channels featuring content from Warner Bros. Discovery. The deal will bring 45 WBD-branded FAST channels to the Tablo platform.
Tim McNamara

Longtime TEGNA/Atlanta Sales Leader Returns To WGN-TV

He spent more than 14 years as Director of Sales at TEGNA's WXIA "11Alive" and MyNetwork sibling WATL-TV in Atlanta and is a former Tribune Broadcasting sales leader, leading efforts for the company's Indianapolis TV stations.  Now, Tim McNamara is returning to a station he spent five years at earlier in his career.

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Fred Jacobs of Jacobs Media Strategies

Broadcast Radio Gets A Glum Outlook From Jacobs Media

Based on 24,525 surveys collected from 500 participating commercial stations across the U.S. and Canada between January 8 and February 9, Jacobs Media President Fred Jacobs presented the findings of Techsurvey 2025, saying, “The vital signs [for radio] are reasonably stable, but there is erosion.”

Premion Brings Advertisers ‘Expanded Capabilities’ and New Offerings

TEGNA-owned streaming advertising platform Premion, focused on Connected TV and over-the-top (OTT) platforms, has integrated Octillion into its offerings — something it says "further strengthens" its local Connected TV platform and demand side platform (DSP) "to drive full-funnel outcomes."

Pharma Brands Rocket Forward On Spot TV

Take one quick glance at the latest Media Monitors Spot Ten TV report, and you'll clearly see that pharmaceutical brands are sending dollars to broadcast TV. Which ones are most prominent?

Bestov Gets a ‘NOV’ From the FCC For Puerto Rican Tower...

The owner of a Class B AM radio station licensed for 10kw from two towers in a suburban area of San Juan, Puerto Rico, has received a Notice of Violation — a precursor to a potential forfeiture notice — for operating the facility outside of its licensed parameters.

SMPTE Call For Technical Papers Is Out

SMPTE, the global society of media professionals, technologists, and engineers working in the digital entertainment industry, has put out a call for technical papers for the SMPTE 2025 Media Technology Summit, scheduled for October 13-16 in Pasadena, Calif.

Planar, OptiTrack Revel In NAB Show Floor Success

Planar has built itself a reputation as a leading visualization technology company. At the NAB Show, it teamed up with 3D tracking systems affiliate company OptiTrack to showcase a selection of broadcast and media technologies that grabbed the attention of thousands of conference and expo floor attendees.

Local Content-Focused Zeam Media Partners With Vionlabs for AI Tech

It professes to be a company "powering the industry’s most successful live OTT solutions as well as hyperlocal streaming platform Zeam." Now, Zeam Media has partnered with a provider of AI-driven products for content discovery and media options as part of a plan to increase discoverability and engagement with next-level metadata.