FCC wants a definition for MVPD and channel
A battle over program access between Sky Angel US and Discovery Communications over carriage of the latter’s Animal Planet basic cable offering has the...
Tribune, DirecTV in stalemate
UPDATE: There was no deal afterall. The Tribune stations were pulled from DirectTV as of midnight Saturday (3/31).
It looked like a past-deadline impasse had...
Current event: Olbermann gets walking papers
Keith Olbermann brought star power to cable news/opinion channel Current, formed by Al Gore and
Big union merger approved to form SAG-AFTRA
Despite some recent battling in court with dissidents, it was hardly a surprise that members of the
Stocks ended Q1 with an advance
A Commerce Department report that consumer spending rose in February added to optimism on Friday as stock traders bet on a recovering economy as...
WOGL holding 25th Anniversary concert
CBS Radio’s Classic Hits WOGL-FM Philadelphia announced its 25th Anniversary Concert featuring Philadelphia’s own Daryl Hall and John Oates at the historic Tower Theater...
WAMU changes schedule for 88.5 HD3 “Intersection”
American University’s WAMU-FM 88.5 DC has made changes to the weekday schedule for its Intersection 88.5 HD3. From 10-11 a.m., Monday-Friday, Intersection will air...
Hampton Hotels launches “Feel the Hamptonality” (video)
Hampton Hotels’ newest campaign, “Feel the Hamptonality,” is geared towards male and female business travelers, leisure travelers and millennial travelers. Each spot highlights a...
Canada to slash CBC budget
The federal budget delivered by Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty 3/29 shows $115 million in cuts to pubcaster Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) over the...
Liberty Media may be launching hostile takeover of Sirius XM
John Malone's Liberty Media his filed three Form 312s with the FCC seeking consent to the transfer of de facto control of SiriusXM Radio's...
A peek at the Peak radio group restructuring
N/A KFXD-AM/KAWO-FM, KCIX-FM, KIDO-AM, KSAS-FM & KXLT-FM Boise ID (Boise, Garden City, Nampa, Caldwell, Eagle ID) from Peak Broadcasting of Boise Licenses LLC Debtor-in-Possession...
Details on multi-faceted Corpus Christi TV deal
$7.5M KUQI-TV Corpus Christi TX from High Maintenance Broadcasting LLC (Lauryn Hoffman) to KUQI License LLC (Lester Langley Jr., Shelya S. Langley), license assets;...
IHR converting leased station to O&O
KHOT-AM Madera CA sits to the northwest of Fresno and brings Catholic programming to the area, putting a primary signal over that corner of...
Survey says that CEO confidence is on the upswing
The Vistage quarterly CEO Confidence Index is moving skyward, and at a rapid pace, with the current score making it into triple digits. Even...
ACA wants to tier up over sports costs
American Cable Association President/CEO Matt Polka thinks he sees what’s coming next after the new suitors expected to acquire the Los Angeles Dodgers close...