Broadcast News

I’m back to thinking that Juan Pablo has some really great A+ options in his final group of 8 women. I don’t think we’ve ever gotten this far into a season of The Bachelor with so many promising prospects in the running still. But let’s start with the OBVIOUS mistake that Juan Pablo made this week. Didn’t he see Ben Flajnik’s season of The Bachelor? He should know that allowing a woman to seduce him into a night of ocean swimming despite an exotic location can never result in something good.

The new national A11Professional Football League (A11FL) announced its six inaugural team cities and an agreement with ESPN to broadcast two showcase games this...

Clear Channel’s 102.1 The Edge (KDGE-FM) announced Edgefest 24 is set for  April 26 at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, TX. The double staged, day-long...

Smasher has inked a deal with CBS Radio’s 94.5 KOOL-FM Phoenix to serve as co-host of the station’s morning show alongside Maria Knight.  The...

HARMAN and Hyundai Motor America say the 2015 Genesis will offer the Aha Radio service in North America. Aha Radio will be a part of the next generation infotainment systems also debuting in the car. Hyundai has integrated the Aha Radio service into Genesis to give its U.S. drivers the ability to access over 100,000 music, entertainment and news stations as well as location-based services in an intuitive manner using their connected iPhone.

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 2/7/14:

Mediacom Communications Corp. (MCCC) has completed a $250 million senior secured term loan and a $225 million revolving credit facility, pursuant to a new...

It’s easier than ever for indie artists to be discovered by its listeners: Pandora announced an open music submission process designed to make it easier than ever for independent artists to be discovered and heard on the personalized stations of the service’s more than 70 million active listeners, The new system...

After the D.C. Circuit court struck down the FCC’s Net Neutrality

In late January, James Crystal Radio Group employees at News-Talker WFTL-AM 850 and

CNN has shut down CNN Latino, its Spanish-language news division, after a year on-air. In December 2012, Cynthia Hudson-Fernández, GM of CNN en Español and Hispanic strategy for CNN, said the network hoped to target bilingual Latinos in the USA by selling eight-hour blocks of Spanish-language news programming to local TV stations.