Media General/Young merger gets key approvals
Both shareholders of Media General and the FCC have bestowed their blessings on the merger...
KUHA fires top talent over funding downturn
The $9 million sale of Rice University's KTRU-FM Houston (now Classical KUHA) to University of Houston’s Houston Public Media has potentially put the organization...
Time Warner Cable, A+E Networks re-up
The renewal of their distribution agreement will allow both Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks to continue delivery of A+E Networks’ channels to...
Weekend Adventure captures syndie competition
Topping 11M viewers was more than enough for a comfortable lead in total viewers for Weekend Adventure, and it brought a nice ratings margin...
CBS Bangs out a Thursday win
Big Bang Theory won is time slot in a walk and was the top show for the night, propelling CBS to a ratings win....
Dean Dillon recognized as BMI icon
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) presented the 2013 BMI Country Awards, honoring the prolific songwriting career of BMI Icon Dean Dillon, as well as the...
NBC lays off some ad sales staffers
No exact numbers were available, but the layoffs total about 3.5% of the staff, a source told The Wrap. The layoffs came this week...
Savage interviews Tom Tradup on FCC monitoring of Talk radio (audio)
Salem Radio Network Vice President of News & Talk Programming Tom Tradup recently wrote a piece...
As advertised: FCC to look at foreign broadcast ownership
As regular readers of this space know, broadcast matters have not been a primary focus of the FCC since the completion of the DTV...
Saga expands in Itaca
A deal to acquire an FM out of bankruptcy is giving Saga Communications its 5th station and 3rd FM in the Ithaca NY market....
Waitt lifting: NRG stock changing hands
$70M KWBG-AM Des Moines IA (Boone IA); KOIL-AM, KMMQ-AM/KOPW-FM, KOOO-FM, KZOT-AM & KQKQ-FM Omaha NE-Council Bluffs IA (Omaha, Plattsmouth, La Vista, Bellevue NE, Council...
Florida A&M station investigation yields non-students
Results of a just-completed investigation at university-owned and student-run WANM-FM found some of the on-air personalities actually weren't students. WCTV-TV reports that a year ago FAMU students told them they'd been complaining to school administrators because non-students were taking several on-air positions, while according to FAMU's handbook, because part of the operating budget comes from the Student Government Association, all on-air personalities have to be full or part time students.
Prather back in TV with Utica buy
$16M WKTV-TV Utica NY from Smith Media LLC (Ian Guthrie et al) to WKTV LLC, a subsidiary of Heartland Media LLC (Robert S. Prather...
Analyst sees trouble for Time Warner Cable
Moody’s Investor Service believes the erosion of video subscribers from Time Warner Cable’s customer base, beyond being bad in and of itself, is going to start to drag other aspects of the business down as well – and adds that its protracted battle with CBS magnified the situation.
MMTC cites harm of performance royalty
If the recording industry is somehow successful in imposing a performance royalty on radio stations, the biggest losers will be a category of licensee that is already in short supply – minority owners – especially when airplay is its own reward.