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The endless winter of 2014 is finally fading, and with the thaw comes the sprouts and shoots of a promising Spring for TagStation and NextRadio. The release of both the HTC One (M8) and the Samsung Galaxy S5 has created an impressive uptick in new listeners and furthered the adoption of NextRadio even faster than we could have hoped. Our presence at the NAB Show in Vegas has generated new TagStation partnerships, and listeners across the country (and in other countries!) are inundating us with feedback for NextRadio and FM in their smartphones.

The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), will have a hearing to conduct oversight of the FCC on

It’s a pretty quick way to put a broadcaster out of business, but the FCC says the case involves a “television broadcast station licensee’s repeated and egregious disregard for several Commission rules, most significant of which was its refusal, on two separate occasions, to comply with its obligation to allow FCC agents to inspect its facilities.”

Rentrak announced a new national television ratings contract with Hill Holliday, the nation's 14th largest ad agency. Hill Holliday will utilize

Media General’s Q1 revenue increased 16% to $144 million, compared to combined net operating revenue of $124 million in the first

Kathleen Keefe, Hearst Television Vice President, Sales, is retiring at the end of the year, concluding

A TV broadcaster in NY State tells us he was able to view all of the NYC channels Aereo streams on his

NAB Radio Board Chairman Don Benson named eight appointees to the NAB Radio Board, with the

Hollywood film studios have pretty much failed to overcome piracy in China, missing out on hundreds of millions in sales as pirates sell copies of brand new films on DVD or online. Some of the bigger studios are now working with Tencent, one of China’s largest internet groups, on a Netflix-style streaming service that aims to beat piracy by delivering new films to homes across China just two weeks after their US release in theaters.

Cumulus Media announced Thomas joined the company as

Q1 revenues increased 18% to $166.2 million compared to $141 million in the first quarter of

Comcast announced 4/28 a series of transactions that will lower its debt and help clear the way for

Here are some new stats from Edison Research’s recently released “Infinite Dial” study for P1s of Urban radio (including both Urban and Urban AC stations). Driven by a lower average age than any format other than Top 40, Urban/Urban AC P1s are heavier digital users in almost every way measured:

In its newly released U.S. Local Media Forecast, BIA/Kelsey forecasts local media ad revenues to climb