Broadcast News

Many already know the date, but the FCC has now made it official: On 4/15, the Commission released a Report and Order in the 2014 Quadrennial Regulatory Review – Review of the Commission’s Broadcast Ownership Rules and Other Rules. In it, the Commission adopted an attribution rule for television joint sales agreements (JSAs), establishing that same-market television JSAs for more than 15% of the weekly advertising time for the brokered station are to be counted toward the brokering station’s ownership totals, just as the Commission has long done with respect to radio stations.

AdLarge Media and KMG Networks expanded their representation of News/Talk radio in a partnership with Harris Media, the producer of Control Room Pro, a suite of digital production field and studio tools. AdLarge will lead the national ad sales effort, while KMG Networks will spearhead radio station distribution. The two firms share a similar relationship on behalf of several radio and digital products and services.

According to Marci Ryvicker, Senior Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities and other analysts there, the impending

Here is a letter from Mike Gravino, Director of the LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition, to the Senate Judiciary

Big Machine Label Group and Cumulus announced that longtime music industry exec Jim

In an industry first, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment (CCM+E) launched the Audience Delivery

Clear Channel Media and Entertainment announced an exclusive long-term agreement with award-winning Country radio personality Bobby Bones to renew and expand his relationship with the company. Under the new deal, Bones will continue his current role as host of The Bobby Bones Show, which originates from WSIX in Nashville and is syndicated nationally by Premiere Networks on nearly 70 radio stations across America, reaching approximately three million weekly listeners.

A contract has been signed and an application has been filed with the FCC for the transfer of

iHeartRadio, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment's digital music and live radio streaming service

E.W. Scripps has completed the acquisition of two TV stations, in Detroit and Buffalo, it announced. The sale of Granite Broadcasting’s

The Supreme Court is expected to rule later this week or next week

American University, which owns noncom NPR-affiliated News-Talk WAMU-FM Washington, DC, is

There’s an electronic billboard on I-4 near Orlando saying there's a "revolution coming to 107.3" with