Broadcast News

For the first time on U.S. television, viewers at home chose the winner of a live, televised singing competition, casting over 1 million votes, with the second-by-second results being revealed on TV in real-time. Participation TV specialists iPowow teamed with WJXT Channel 4 in Jacksonville, FL to enable the audience at home to dictate the final outcome of their July 4th singing competition, setting the bar for the future of interactive television for TV networks everywhere.

The FCC has voted in favor of MVPD operator Armstrong Utilities in a carriage fee dispute concerning the Root Sports Pittsburgh regional sports network

Colby-Sawyer College’s WSCS-FM New London, New Hampshire is selling Variety/College Radio WSCS “The Charge” to Vinikoor Family

A long-awaited Republican LPTV and TV Translator Bill will get a hearing 7/24 in the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee

Matt Wesolowski, SSR Communications, Inc., says the FCC will be taking formal comments on

Casey Kasem has been dead for more than a month, yet he has not been buried and now reports are

The House will vote the week of 7/21 on bipartisan legislation approved in May to reauthorize the nation’s

Anheuser-Busch InBev is in the midst of a formal media agency review for the U.S., according AdAge. The incumbent is Publicis’ Starcom, which was selected to handle planning and research duties in late 2011. A-B InBev decided to outsource some of the media duties long handled by its in-house Busch Media Group.

Hubbard Radio announced 7/18 that Drew Horowitz, EVP/COO, would become President and COO

Although CEO Jeff Bewkes was quick to shoot down an acquisition by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century

CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves says CBS Corp. is interested in buying the CNN news channel if it becomes

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held a three-hour

Comcast has signed a deal with the new SEC Network and will also offer up access to authenticated