Thursday, May 14, 2026

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Corporate M&A prospects looking up

The vast majority of US execs believe the market for mergers and acquisitions will pick up
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Dallas LPTV going to religious licensee

DFW Broadcasting is planning to sell its KZPW-LP, and in fact has already turned it over to the prospective buyer

On the Street, if it isn’t one thing it’s another

Traders are said to be hunkering down in anticipation of the next round of corporate quarterly results reports, and that is said to have...
LPTV

More praise for FCC’s LPTV action

A second organization has joined with the LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition in commending the FCC’s move.

SBE broadens its scope

SBE is adding those who work on the technical aspects of broadcast and media companies
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Station groups enter into programmatic WideOrbit

Tribune is being joined by other major television groups in a test a programmatic ad system developed by WideOrbit

More radio results from September

Radio veteran Clark Smidt is back with another look at the month that just was: September 2014:

NBC scores another Sunday touchdown

Prime time football is tough for the other nets to beat, but Fox came reasonably close, but it took more football – a huge...

To be in Beeville or not to be in Beeville

In this case, the answer depends on whether you're buyer or seller
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Crisis management is a weekly CFO event

Not every CFO has to deal with a crisis once a week or more, but just about half say they do
Pandora

Down under radio bracing for Pandora invasion

Pandora has signed 255K registered users in New Zealand

Wall Street continues in look out below mode

The headline writers who had to deal with Friday’s stock market performance seemed depressed, and well they should have been. Among broadcasters followed by...

FCC takes on laundry list of special cases

Broadcasters may have an interest in a list of situations that will dealt with on what the FCC is calling a “Consent Agenda.”
Mobile Apps

Online holiday shopping trends still point upward

It is no secret that a great deal of holiday gift shopping is done on line

Tacher picks up North Carolina client

An AM-FM translator combo has signed up for national representation.