DISH launches dishNET Broadband
Dish will launch a nationwide broadband service under the brand dishNET, hoping to add a new revenue stream on top of its pay-TV business...
JVC buys Florida radio group*
The use of * in the headline is totally appropriate – JVC Media is expanding from its Long Island NY radio base into the...
SoCal radio up 2.6% so far in 2013
The Miller Kaplan X-Ray report for June has some good news for Southern California Radio. From a YTD comp, the reporting LA area radio...
KRPI-AM towers hearing delayed
BBC Broadcasting’s Ferndale, WA-based multicultural/South Asian KRPI-AM, which wants to move its city of license to
Petco launches $15 million TV, online effort
After years of being the place "where the pets go" and subsequently "where the healthy pets go," Petco is updating its tagline and embarking...
Fox Business Network gets a re-design
RBR-TVBR exclusive: On Monday, Fox Business Network will be undergoing a redesign. It’s going to a single 16x9 feed (previously, they had both an...
Mid-West adds Mavericks to its portfolio
$15.5M WAYY-AM/WAXX-FM/WIAL-FM, WEAQ-AM, WDRK-FM & WECL-FM Eau Claire WI (Eau Claire, Chippewa Falls, Cornell, Elk Mound WI); and WNTA-AM, WXRX-FM, WRTB-FM & WRTB-FM Rockford...
CBS exposes TWC LA pricing; affiliates show solidarity
CBS believes that the way Time Warner Cable treats its Los Angeles subscribers should eliminate any
Cleveland sports talker scheduled for jury trial
Good Karma Broadcasting’s WKNR-AM ESPN Radio host Tony Rizzo, accused of domestic violence in connection with an incident at his home in December, is...
Neutrogena Bubbles to Top
Last week in the Media Monitors TV Spot Ten, Neutrogena moved up from #4 to #1
FCC March Meeting Agenda Announced
The firestorm set off after the FCC’s February meeting is not likely to be repeated
Nielsen releases December 2013 radio network ratings
Nielsen reported in its December 2013 RADAR 119 (Radio’s All Dimension Audience Research) Radio Network Ratings that more than 178 million persons 12+ or approximately 68% of this demographic, heard one or more network radio commercials in an average week of the survey period.
Mental Health Exam Ordered for Viacom/CBS’ Redstone
A Los Angeles judge has ordered Viacom/CBS Chair Summer Redstone to undergo a mental exam.
Chio resigns from Wired 96.5
Beasley’s Wired 96.5 WRDW-FM Philadelphia announced Morning Host Chio has turned in his resignation. Chio is a member of the “Chio, Shila and Tingle...
Burns calls for alternative to Arbitron/BIA market definitions
After failing to stop a deal to sell a Roanoke-Lynchburg FM to an already-large station group, 3 Daughters Media owner Gary Burns is contemplating an appeal, and is also calling for the use of Census Bureau rather than Arbitron data when defining radio markets.