Litany of licenses: granted and dismissed
Here’s a list of the FCC’s latest licenses, construction permits and transfers of control—granted and dismissed—for TV, AM and FM. This list is current as of 2/14/14:
America’s Talk Radio Network launching
Starting 3/1 a new radio network joins the airwaves. America's Talk Radio Network, with studios based in Tampa Bay, will be available to stations via Cumulus XDS on a market-exclusive basis. Shows include
WGN’s new FM: “The Game”
Chicago has two Sports Talk stations in WSCR-AM and ESPN’s WMVP-AM, but now it has one more—and it’s live and local.
CRS details show schedule, events
As the world’s largest Country radio event, CRS 2014, will kick off 2/19 at the Nashville Convention Center, the organization has provided all of the details that attendees will be able to experience.
“Outernet” to beam free Wi-fi across the globe
NYC-based non-profit Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) is planning to change
Olympics down but still dominate
NBC was number one among adults 18-49 and with total viewers. Coverage of the Winter Olympic games earned a 4.8 adults 18-49 rating, down...
Chipotle debuts original series
Chipotle Mexican Grill has debuted its original comedy series, “Farmed and Dangerous” on Hulu and Hulu Plus.
Cumulus has even bigger plans for NASH
Cumulus is expected to put into play this week a plan to take its NashFM country brand and promote it
Mickey D’s goes to the head of the class
In last week’s Media Monitors TV SPOT TEN, McDonald’s moved from #2 to #1 airing 20,086 spots last week on Broadcast TV. Toyota increased from #5 to #2 with 18,989 commercials, while Progressive regressed from #1 to #3 running 17,822 spots. Chevrolet soared from #28 to #4 with 15,950 ads and Nissan leapt from #19 to #5 with 15,413 spots.
KARR-AM Seattle to go dark
Family Stations’ Christian Family Radio KARR-AM 1460 Kirkland-Seattle, WA will go dark in the at the end of the month because it lost the lease on its tower site and has been unable to come up with a Plan B.
Time Warner Cable shareholder sues
A shareholder has sued to block Comcast’s proposed $45.2 billion takeover, saying the merger of
Scripps Networks scores healthy Q4
Revenues for the quarter increased 8.2% to $654 million from Q4 2012 on strong ad revenue of
K-98.3 morning drivers create international outrage
Connoisseur Media’s AC WKJY-FM (K-98.3) Hempstead, NY (Long Island) have a bit of a problem
Report: Comcast-TWC merger could kill ATVA
Fierce Cable says that Comcast's deal to acquire Time Warner Cable will likely result in the demise of the American Television Alliance, the coalition of pay TV distributors that TWC formed in 2010 to lobby for reform of retransmission-consent rules.
Roof collapse at WGAL-TV studios
A portion of the roof collapsed at Hearst Television’s WGAL's (NBC) Lancaster, PA studio 2/14