Broadcast News

AT&T Inc. sold $2 billion in debt 6/3, receiving good demand from investors for its first bond sale since announcing its planned $49 billion acquisition of DirecTV. AT&T offered 30-year bonds to yield 1.40 percentage points more than comparable U.S. Treasurys, for a yield of around 4.8%.

While AT&T has yet to submit the deal proposal to the FCC, a recent 8-K filing with the SEC says it

Listener hours for Pandora during the month of May 2014 were 1.73 billion, an increase of 28% from

Seeking Alpha’s Crunching Numbers notes that SiriusXM recently held its annual meeting. During that

As the entertainment & media (E&M) industry continues its digital shift, advertising growth is outpacing

TV Guide Network (TVGN) will debut the new reality series The Sorrentinos Tuesday, July 15 at 10:00 PM, ET/PT. The eight 30-minute episodes will follow the Sorrentino family—Mike (youngest brother), Linda (mother), Marc (middle brother), Melissa (sister) and Frank (older brother) as they embark on life after reality in their hometown of Howell, New Jersey.

The FCC released its broadcast spectrum incentive auction order 6/2. It’s looking to be a pretty

Delmarva Educational Association’s Gospel “Amen 820” WGGM-AM Chester-Richmond, VA has flipped to Conservative Talk as “820 The Answer.” With the new WNTW calls, the station is featuring a combination of area and national hosts.

Cheatham County, TN's only local radio station has returned to the airwaves 6/3. WQSV-AM Ashland City has been silent for the last year, but popular demand prompted the GM to bring it back. Ashland City is about 20 miles NW of Nashville.

Summit City Radio Group, LLC has closed on the sale (6/3) of its radio cluster in Fort Wayne, IN to

Myers, developer in broadcast management software, announced WTVI-TV Charlotte (PBS) as the 14th station to partner with Centralcast LLC, a

WestwoodOne is busy preparing for the kickoff of the college football season with a slate of regular season and postseason NCAA Football matchups. The season starts on Thursday, 8/28 with Texas A&M at South Carolina.

Just in time for summer travel and family vacations, The Media Audit polled more than 8,000 respondents from 81 U.S. metro areas to determine the top U.S. cities for leisure air travel. Among those top cities with the highest percentage of domestic air travelers is Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida, where 15.9% of the metro area’s 18+ population has flown three or more times on a domestic flight in the past year for leisure purposes.