Radio & Television Business Report

The Smullin family's South West Oregon TV Broadcasting Corp. has struck a deal that will see Sinclair Inc. fully acquire a full-power property and four associated TV translators serving Douglas County, Ore., for nearly 70 years. The deal comes four years after a transaction in Eugene, Ore., involving Cox Media Group.

One of the nation's largest financial institutions, home to veteran media industry analyst Jessica Reif Ehrlich, has reportedly teamed with other undisclosed banks in launching a leveraged loan to assist the nation's largest single owner of broadcast television stations in its quest to acquire TEGNA.

Welcome to the latest retransmission consent negotiation to result in the removal, by law, of broadcast television stations from a MVPD — this time frequent "blackout" artist DirecTV. Sticking to its guns is the Wisconsin TV station ownership group founded with a newspaper in 1890 that remains family-controlled today.

Cumulus Media's days as a publicly traded broadcaster are at an end. The company's prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan lays out a reorganization that wipes out current shareholders entirely, sees an entirely new board, and could lead to new executive leaders.

In recent years, Global Weather has emerged as a frequent plaintiff in copyright infringement lawsuits over alleged unauthorized use of its extreme weather footage. Two radio broadcasting companies are the latest to be sued by the entity linked to such "storm chasers" as Aaron James Jayjack.

The Commission has given its regulatory approval to an agreement announced in November 2025 that will see four stations owned by Alpha Media and obtained by Connoisseur Media through its merger with the former Portland, Ore.-headquartered radio broadcasting company.

A cloud-based management, traffic, billing, sales, and AI-powered production platform designed specifically for broadcasters co-founded by Fletcher Ford has been acquired by a provider of 24/7 music formats for broadcast radio.

MediaCo's Sigma Audio Networks has launched a bilingual audio network created to celebrate and connect with the modern multicultural woman. Built around the tagline “Where Her Voice Leads,” the Hispanic-focused network blends contemporary music, lifestyle programming, and cultural conversation.

Broadcasting’s biggest personalities mixed with television stars and media celebrities on Monday evening as the Broadcasters Foundation of America (BFOA) transformed The Plaza in New York into a who’s who of the industry at its annual gala, drawing nearly 300 leaders from radio and television.

There's a new individual in charge of the five FM radio stations owned and operated by Beasley Media Group serving Southern Nevada. Getting the post is a woman who exited in October 2025 as an iHeartMedia Region President in Dallas, rising from a Regional Sr. VP of Sales role.

The station known as "680 NewsRadio Toronto" was found to have breached Article 4.0 of the Radio Television Digital News Association of Canada’s Code of Journalistic Ethics when it failed to disclose in a report about a Toronto Blue Jays World Series ticket giveaway that Rogers owns both the team and CFTR-AM.

RBR+TVBR's Editor-in-Chief discusses with Ribeye Media Chief Growth Officer Jennifer Scilabro how the ad-tech platform powering more than 100 local television stations helps them in monetizing their digital and streaming offerings through unified spot sales. It's all here in this 20-minute video report.

HBCU GO, the Allen Media Group-owned free-streaming digital platform that focuses on sports and culture linked to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) sports and culture, has entered into a partnership with "the nation's largest and most effective education organization for underrepresented students."

Television "continues to play a powerful role in creating brand awareness and influencing consumer purchase decisions." That's a key finding from a study conducted by the trade association squarely focused on attracting marketers and advertisers to local broadcast TV.

U.S.-based employers announced 48,307 job cuts in February, down 55% from the 108,435 job cuts in January. It is down 72% from the 172,017 cuts announced during the same month last year. Those are the key takeaways from the latest jobs report released by executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

In his new role, this Tenetic executive is tasked with oversight of the company’s research organization as well as its end-to-end production and operational process, spanning data infrastructure, automation, governance, and delivery.