Broadcast News

Nielsen reported in its December 2013 RADAR 119 (Radio’s All Dimension Audience Research) Radio Network Ratings that more than 178 million persons 12+ or approximately 68% of this demographic, heard one or more network radio commercials in an average week of the survey period.

Greater Media Detroit announces longtime radio on air personality Ken Calvert will be officially retiring as the Co-Host of the WCSX-FM Morning Show in...

SiriusXM and the National Basketball Association’s exclusive NBA channel launched 12/9, that covers the league 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. SiriusXM...

In a sign of how much Internet-based media is revolutionizing the way consumers access video entertainment content, more than 1.7 billion devices capable of...

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