Broadcast News

Blame it on political comps: The E.W. Scripps Co.’s Q4 television station revenue was $115 million, a decrease

Judge Sarah Evans Barker of the United States District Court, Southern District of Indiana, has ruled in favor of Emmis Communications in a suit filed by dissident preferred shareholders. “We were confident in our position, and the federal court has confirmed it,” said Jeff Smulyan, President and CEO of Emmis Communications. Here is a copy of the judge’s ruling. Get your reading glasses, because this is a long one:

The Southern California Broadcasters Association (SCBA) announced the Miller Kaplan Arase Market Summary report for January 2014 reflects a solid start to 2014. According to Miller Kaplan Arase,

Here’s an amicus brief filed 3/3 with the Supreme Court by NAB and broadcast network

The “refusal” of station owners to sell to African American buyers continues to wreak havoc upon

New South Radio’s Variety Hits “100.9 Jack-FM” WJXN-FM Jackson, MS has flipped 3.3 to Classic Country “100.9 The Legend.” This, after a weekend of...

U.S. ranchers, farmers and residents across rural America depend on reliable and continual access to

Comcast looking at options for how to divest about 3 million cable subscribers as part of a takeover

Corus Radio launched Country 104, CKDK-FM Woodstock/London, Ontario 3/3, offering listeners in Southwestern Ontario country music’s top name artists, featuring “more songs per hour, every hour, every day, with fewer interruptions.”

Chuck Harder, Sun Radio Network founder and LPFM broadcaster, tells RBR-TVBR two years ago a former business associate whom he broke off with decided to “steal massive amounts of equipment and merchandise.” The new local Sheriff in Lake City, FL said when he asked him to investigate, "I'm just a country boy and don't understand this so get you a lawyer," and then hung up. Harder tells RBR-TVBR: “I sued him in Jacksonville Federal Court and the county hired a law firm that plays dirty. Without me understanding, she twisted the case saying that I demanded Sheriff Hunter to arrest the criminals, which a person cannot do. But with her twist she created the myth that I demanded arrest, which is untrue. With that twist she won in Lower Federal Court and it is now in Federal Appeals Court in Atlanta. If I lose, it sets a national precedent any towers can be chopped down with no fear of arrest…If I lose all FCC licensed facilities lose.”

VH1 and VH1 Classic have moved radio distribution and national ad sales for all its programming services for rock and classic rock stations to KMG Networks and AdLarge Media, respectively. The move is an expansion on an already existing relationship among the three firms.

The penalties represent the largest yet proposed in ongoing investigations of misuse of