Arby’s airs 13-hour commercial
Arby's made history 5/24 by setting a Guinness World Record for the longest television commercial ever aired. The Smokehouse Brisket sandwich, Arby's featured limited-time offer this May, is slow smoked for 13 long hours. In an effort to demonstrate the smoking process in its entirety, Arby's piloted an on-air commercial of just their brisket smoking in a smoker for 13 hours.
Court approves Commission’s plan to subsidize rural broadband service
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver upheld
Knowlton Nash passes at 86
Knowlton Nash, the veteran CBC broadcaster, died 5/24 at his home in Toronto at the age of 86. He had reportedly been battling Parkinson's for some years.
Casey Kasem’s wife loses guardianship powers
Jean Kasem, the wife of Casey Kasem was served 5/23 with a California court order that
Corona launches global partnership with SFX
SFX Entertainment and Anheuser-Busch InBev announced “Corona SunSets,” a new music experience bringing together top DJs and rising stars in celebration
Comcast launches major lobbying push
Comcast has added seven lobbying firms to its roster since first proposing the deal to acquire Time Warner
Dow turns up for the year
After three straight days of advances, stocks finished the week with solid gains, sending the S&P 500 above the 1,900 level, a first on...
SummitMedia adds “Easy 100.9” in Richmond
After stunting with nature sounds, SummitMedia flipped CHR “Hot 100.9” WHTI-FM 5/23 to Soft AC
Stations selling in Illinois, Ohio, South Dakota
WMS1, Inc. is selling Americana-Roots WWHP-FM Champaign-Bloomington, IL to Smash Hit Media for $475K. It includes a time brokerage deal before close
NBC’s Brian Williams gets exclusive interview with Snowden
"NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams traveled to Moscow for
WBUR debuts WBUH-FM in Cape Cod
WBUR-FM, Boston’s NPR News Station, announced began broadcasting on a new outlet at 89.1 FM in Brewster, Mass. The new station, WBUH, will simulcast WBUR’s award-winning news and information programming on a full-power Class B 50,000-watt signal, making it the first and only non-commercial Cape station of this magnitude.
Dodgers radio ratings up 78% over no-carry
Time Warner Cable has been trying to sign DirecTV, Dish Network, Charter Communications
FCC sets agenda for June open meeting
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler announced that the following items will be on the tentative agenda for the next open meeting
RFD-TV: Comcast-TWC merger will exclude rural programming
Just a few weeks after the founder of RFD-TV testified at a hearing on the Comcast-Time Warner Cable
UBS: Comcast may bid for T-Mobile
AT&T's proposed buy DirecTV Group could spur Comcast to bid for T-Mobile in the US in order to