Broadcast News

With plenty of time to spare, Beasley Media Group has closed the book on a Nasdaq listing scare that dogged the company since April. The broadcaster has regained compliance with Nasdaq’s minimum stockholders’ equity requirement after months of debt restructuring.

Executives from Sinclair Inc. will be participating in four investor conferences in September 2026, with webcasts of the company’s fireside chats at two of the events available for public consumption.

The nation's leading owner, by station count, of broadcast television stations has announced that members of its C-Suite will be present and participants in a series of upcoming institutional investor conference scheduled for September.

Gray intends to use the net proceeds of the offering to redeem a portion of Gray’s outstanding 10.5% senior secured first lien notes due 2029, repay a portion of its outstanding borrowings under the company’s revolving credit facility, and pay fees and expenses in connection with the offering.

In a brief message distributed midday Sunday (8/9) via PR Newswire, the radio broadcasting company founded by George Beasley and led today by his daughter, Caroline Beasley, confirmed that it needs a little more time than expected with the release of its Q2 2026 earnings report.

Nexstar Media Group returned $56 million to shareholders in dividends during the first quarter of 2026, maintaining its regular quarterly cash dividend payout of $1.86 per share. The company founded 30 years ago by its leader, Perry Sook, has voted to do it again in Q2.

The man who heads Salem Media's digital marketing agency has revealed that he's commenced plans to retire, concluding a lengthy tenure at the radio station owner and publishing house parent focused on conservative secular political discourse and non-secular Christian talk and teaching programming.

For MFM CEO Joe Annotti, who plans to retire come June 2027, “Becoming the Media Finance Section of FEI ensures that our members' community and programming not only continue but grow, with greater scale and support behind them.”

Broadcast TV station ownership group Gray Media has committed to participating in some way at a quartet of investor conferences on the calendar in late August, in September, and during the month of December.

What can investors anticipate from Gray Media when it comes to the broadcast television station owner's second quarter 2026 earnings results? The answers will come on August 7 with the release of its financial health card, and a conference call hosted by Hilton Howell Jr. and Pat LaPlatney.

Gray Media has closed on a private placement of $70 million of aggregate principal amount of its 7.250% Senior Secured First Lien Notes due 2033. The “additional notes,” as Gray calls them, were sold to accredited investors at a price of par plus accrued interest from and including February 15, 2026, the company said.

The judge overseeing the plan to emerge from debtor-in-possession status submitted by Spanish Broadcasting System has been given the green light, putting the wheels in motion for the company founded in 1983 by supermajority owner and equity interest holder Raúl Alarcón Jr. to reorganize SBS.

Media companies weren't immune to the declines for seen by such tech brethren as Apple, Microsoft and Meta, with Sinclair shares falling on Thursday by $1.09 per share to $12.94 and Gray Media slipping $0.37 per share to $3.58. It is the Nexstar Media Group slide that may have some industry observers jittery.

Nexstar Media Group has held its 2026 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, and shareholders voted to elect all nominees to the company's Board of Directors while ratifying its independent registered public accounting firm for FY 2026.

Cumulus Media has offered a target date for its Chapter 11 emergence for the first time since filing for bankruptcy protection in March, as the clock keeps running on two simultaneous high-stakes proceedings that will shape what the broadcaster’s ratings access on the other side.