Radio & Television Business Report

Upon completion of the transaction, Comcast shareholders will own shares in both Comcast and NBCUniversal, creating “two focused industry leaders, each with significant scale, strong financial profiles and distinct strategic opportunities.”

A public interest organization has been joined by a "group of concerned citizens" in filing a Petition to Deny the early license renewals of ABC Owned Stations' properties. To be clear, Media Action Center and Frequency Forward are not trying to block the stations' license renewals. Rather, they see the action as the lone way to gain standing.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has taken aim at a campaign from ABC designed to gain viewer support in its quest to maintain the "bona fide news program" equal time exemption for daytime chat program "The View."  As Carr sees it, "We're going to follow the facts and the law wherever they take us."

The annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has been a regular epicenter of ad partnership pitches for iHeartMedia for the last several years, and this year is no exception. From C-Suite leaders to Questlove, Ryan Seacrest, Eva Longoria and Diplo, three days of activity have already been seen.

Jimi Gibson, the VP of Brand Communication at Thrive Internet Marketing Agency, spent two decades as a creative director. Now, he’s here to send the message that “invisible owners create invisible companies” — and how this matters for broadcast media. Gibson explains the reasons why in this InFOCUS Video Podcast.

An expanded relationship with Amazon Ads has been inked by the leading audio content creation and distribution company in the U.S., serving as a local reseller of its audio and video inventory. This builds a bigger bridge between iHeartMedia and a "Big Tech" company broadcasters and the NAB are fighting on Capitol Hill.

The Library of American Broadcasting Foundation (LABF) has released of a new series of pre‑produced radio and television spots as part of its “Before It Was History, It Was Broadcast” initiative supporting America’s 250th Anniversary. The new :30 spots feature archival audio and visuals.

The RAB, Commercial Radio & Audio Australia, Radiocentre UK, and Radiocentre Ireland jointly commissioned and presented research under a unified global case for audio’s role in the media mix at the Cannes Lions festival, which concludes on Friday in the South of France.

She may be reluctant to talk to the press about the flurry of radio station deals she's signed off on, but Christina Biegun has emerged as one of South Florida's biggest discussion topics in recent months.  Why? Her Little Dog Media Group has been scrappy in scooping up AM radio stations with FM translators. Now, she's struck again.

The five audio brands serving Idaho's largest metropolitan area have a new VP/Market Manager overseeing the stations, and he's inbound from a small market in Arizona to the southeast of Tucson where Townsquare Media has a presence. It's an individual who is a former VP of Cherry Creek Media, which Townsquare acquired.

Press Communications has successfully convinced the FCC that a tiny FM translator located in The Bronx is still an interference threat to its successful Country station serving Middlesex and Monmouth Counties, in New Jersey. That results in a need for Family Stations to retool the mini-FM, which uses a frequency once home to WVIP-FM.

The second quarter of this year ends Tuesday, and that will start the process of totaling up all of the financials for publicly traded companies as they work to submit their earnings reports to the SEC and share the details with shareholders. For Sinclair, the Q2 2026 fiscal health review will come on the first Wednesday of August.

It has a formidable position in the market, thanks to dual ABC/NBC affiliate "WDAM7" and Telemundo affiliate WLJA-LD. Now, Gray Media, which entered this Deep South locale through its Raycom merger eight years ago, is adding a low-power FOX affiliate to the mix. Kalil & Co. served as the seller's broker of record.

Since 2024, Jacobs Media's "Jacobs D.R." has worked across secular and religious stations to unlock their digital potential. A July 16 webinar will share some of the key conclusions from those experiences.

The fundraiser is an annual effort to raise critical funds that support our mission of providing financial assistance to broadcast professionals facing severe hardship due to debilitating illness or disaster. The BFOA has distributed more than $20 million in aid to radio and television professionals over the past 15 years.

The Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC) has released its 2025 LDC U.S. Latinos in Media Report™: Full Year Update and the 2026 LDC Strategic Roadmap for the Entertainment Industry. The data highlights "a widening chasm" between where Latinos consume English-language content and how they are represented on and off screen in the industry.