Thursday, May 14, 2026

CBS owns Wednesday on strength of Big Brother

It took only a 1.5/5 for CBS to claim the top slot in the Wednesday Nielsen overnight ratings wars, according to TVByTheNumbers. NBC was...
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Done deal in New York

Starboard Media Foundation has closed on its deal to acquire WNSW-AM
MMTC / Minority Media & Telecom Council

MMTC spins out of Detroit

A Dearborn MI AM station is now on its way to a new owner.

Broadcast outperforms Wall Street

The major indexes came in very near to on par with Tuesday results, so it was a positive for radio and television stocks to...

The Five Second Radio Headline Test

Here's a simple, but possibly painful test to perform on your radio script.
AP / Associated Press

AP Critic looks at network fall offerings

AP's Frazier Moore flagged 10 new network programs that he believes are worth checking out.

Rear guard mission in Detroit?

The offer is being billed as the “I’m Already IN Labor-Day Weekend.”
Radio

Radio figures in rising Dolla $ign career

Guess which medium helped put Ty Dolla $ign in position for such an undertaking:

Talented NBC wins Monday

America’s Got Talent helped NBC to a clean sweep, winning 18-49, 18-34 and total viewers, all by a comfortable margin. ABC  and Univision tied...
Poll

Washington, high school yearbook style

The Harris Poll decided to look at what might be contained in a yearbook featuring some of the major characters on the federal city campus..
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Twin Falls AM will cut the Comedy

Not only will the thin ranks of Comedy-formatted AMs shrink, the growing pool of non-commercial AMs will grow.

Contest platform continues to grow

Everybody wants to bulk up their trophy shelf, particularly in the high-profile promotion-craving world of broadcasters

Univision spin-off of microscopic proportions

Trust us – this is one station sale that is not going to figure prominently in Univision’s next quarterly conference call.

Radio and TV stocks take different trajectories

It’s this simple: During Tuesday 8/26/14 trading radio stocks improved and television stocks shrunk. The worst radio stock was flat, as was the best...
MIB Reports Movies

Millennials spotted paying attention to ads

The young millennial age group is a treasured demographic.