Price revealed in Rapid City TV buy
We knew that Duhamel Broadcasting Enterprises has decided to exit the television business, and that the buyer making this possible is Schurz Communications. Now we know the value of the deal.
Double-deal for Williamsport AM pair
Todd Bartley’s Pioneer Sports Productions is converting an LMA to an ownership situation with one AM station and buying all the stock in another to create an AM duopoly in the Williamsport PA market.
WHPY-FM reporter chases intruder after home invasion
WSMV-TV (Fox) Nashville reports that Jack Flash, traffic reporter at Grace Broadcasting Services’ "Hippie Radio" 94.5 FM was the victim of a home invasion...
Sony Pictures looking for $100 million in cuts
Sony Pictures Entertainment has tapped Bain & Co. to help find ways to save $100 million in annual costs, which will likely include layoffs....
Yahoo! to encrypt users’ emails, data
The vow was announced 11/18 by Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer after a Washington Post report that the NSA has been hacking into communications lines...
Simple.TV adds Broadcast Interactive Media for station list
Broadcast Interactive Media (BIM), which provides web, video, and mobile publishing tools, will utilize its TitanTV signal prediction and data services technologies to support Simple.TV’s upcoming personal DVR and broadcast streaming service. The technology will provide consumers with a list of TV stations available over-the-air at their specific household address.
KPBS staff joins SAG-AFTRA
The San Diego public radio and television employees voted 11/18 to join 165,000 media and entertainment professionals in recognizing SAG-AFTRA as their union. The new bargaining unit will cover 55 public media pros who produce, report, host, and present content for television, radio, and the internet. This election allows them to move forward to negotiate a first contract.
Online to accelerate local media growth
BIA/Kelsey has reviewed its predictions for local media revenue and says the sector will do better
Stocks up, then down after Icahn sees drop ahead
Stocks closed mostly lower on Monday after dropping to session lows on bearish comments from investor Carl Icahn. The Dow scored a record closing...
Major sports go to bat for TV v. Aereo
The National Football League and Major League Baseball filed a brief with the Supreme Court strongly
Auction 84 offers AMs to limited bidding pool
The seeds of the AM stations that are about to go on the FCC auction block date all the way back to 11/6/03, when the FCC first announced a window for proposals aimed at their creation. Now, more than ten years later, their auction to a group of mutually-exclusive proponents has been announced.
“Radio Men” out at KKZX
They’ve been the morning men for more than 20 years at CCME’s Classic Rocker KKZX-FM Spokane, WA, but the duo of Jim Arnold and...
Univision and Walmart pour it on
In the Media Monitors TV SPOT TEN for last week, Univision ran 22,715 spots to top the list with Walmart maintaining #2 with 22,532...
As usual, football rules Sunday
NBC won primetime and Fox was #2 with the best NFL overrun Sunday night. CBS earned 3rd just ahead of ABC, with Univision bringing...
“Quinn and Rose” leave mornings at WPGB
Conservative talkers Jim Quinn and Rose Tennent (“The War Room with Quinn and Rose”) have ended their run at CCME’s Talker WPGB-FM Pittsburgh the...