Broadcast News

Voice of Russia (VOR), the former Radio Moscow during the Soviet era, will end shortwave broadcasts as of 1/1. In addition, effective 12/9 as...

Here’s a copy of the written testimony of NAB Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning Rick Kaplan for the Senate Commerce Committee hearing (12/10), "Crafting a Successful Incentive Auction: Stakeholders' Perspectives". Kaplan points out the impact of repack on the viewers—and their ability to receive OTA TV. In the post-auction repacking, it is likely that many more stations will be repacked – perhaps in excess of 500:

Steve Harvey, popular national radio personality, television host and best-selling author, will be inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame during the NAB...

Yahoo! announced 12/6 it had acquired Evntlive, a live concert and event streaming video service. The company was founded in 2012 and launched in...

Economic gridlock in the U.S. and a persistent financial crisis in the Eurozone have led GroupM to revise its worldwide ad spend forecast for 2014 downward to 4.6% growth from the 5.1% hike predicted earlier this year. The change was made in GroupM’s report, “This Year, Next Year,” which also predicted that 2013 worldwide ad spend in measured media will hit $508 billion, a 3.3% increase over 2012 spending of $492 billion.

New research from the Parents Television Council found that the volume and degree of violent

While Charter Communications is raising about $25 billion in debt financing as part of a potential bid

Just days after formally announcing Rush Limbaugh’s move from Cumulus’ WABC-AM NY to its WOR-AM there, CCME’s WWDC-FM (DC101) syndicated morning man

Waco, TX public radio station KWBU staffers and supporters are gearing up for a $50,000 listener fundraiser to move the station’s tower for improved reception. The total cost is estimated at $150K. KWBU (Classical/NPR) told the Waco Tribune that moving the station’s site from the tower off Interstate 35 near west Robinson to a taller tower (American Tower Co.) on higher ground near State Highway 6 and State Highway 84 — will boost the station’s signal into areas plagued by spotty reception. The station’s 2,700-watt signal will not increase.

Beasley’s board has declared a cash dividend of $0.045 per share payable on 1/10, to shareholders of record on 12/27. Said George Beasley, Chairman...

FOX Business Network will debut The Independents, a new primetime program hosted by Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (Kennedy), on 12/9, announced Kevin Magee, Executive Vice...