Sun Broadcast Group adds Jelli ad platform
Sun Broadcast Group CEO Jason Bailey says the company is investing in the deployment of Jelli's cloud-based ad platform across its network that will...
Localized news radio app readies
It’s a Pandora-like hyperlocal approach to traffic with “musical interludes” from
Charter CEO plays down TWC buy
While Charter Communications last month was working on submitting formal a bid for Time Warner Cable before 2014, “trying to devise a deal structure...
Committee set to review Telecom policy
Communications Subcommittee Chair Greg Walden and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton have
Dow, S&P 500 fall for third day
Stocks ended lower Tuesday, with the S&P and Dow falling for a third consecutive session on uncertainty over when the Federal Reserve will begin...
The 100 Greatest Christmas Hits adds 15
Envision Radio Networks says the latest group of affiliates that will be counting down to Christmas with The 100 Greatest Christmas Hits of All...
ATSC elects board members
Members of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) have elected three industry execs to serve on the Board of Directors for three-year terms beginning...
What’s up with “El Mandril”?
SBS’s top-rated morning driver “El Mandril” (Ricardo Sanchez) has been off the air at KLAX-FM LA for weeks because of what we’ve heard to be contract negotiations (his current contract ends 1/13). Well, the LA Times says it may be more than that:
Radio Discussions shuts down
Streamline Digital Inc., a division of RBR-TVBR owner Streamline Publishing, acquired the Radio Discussions message boards in May from In3Media, operated by Diana Fleming....
Upstate TV station goes at a bargain price
The sellers of WNMN-DT Saranac Lake NY had a better deal to sell five years ago when the station was but a CP – unfortunately that deal did not go through and the new price as an up-and-running facility is substantially reduced.
Is there a future for progressive political talk radio?
Conservative dominance of the political talk genre is a given, and what little liberal presence there is seems
NBC dominates Monday ratings contest
The 3.5/9 Nielsen 18-49 numbers NBC finished with were pretty much in force for all three prime time hours – the only difference was...
Retailers surveyed on online holiday spend
Following mixed sales projections for the holiday shopping season, retailers aren’t planning to significantly adjust spend compared to last year. A recent BDO USA...
SCOTUS stays out of brick & mortar v. internet dispute
Retailers with a physical presence in the communities they serve are tired of being forced to collect sales taxes while losing business to etailers who bear no such burden. With the Supreme Court ducking the issue, the International Council of Shopping Centers is turning back to Congress for help.
Political noncom loophole undone
A 9th Circuit Court ruling that would have permitted political advertising on non-commercial radio and television