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House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Henry Waxman (D-CA) and two key subcommittee heads have sent a letter to the FDA sounding the alarm about efforts to sell e-cigarettes, particularly to young consumers.

The $88.3M in revenue pulled in by Gray Television in Q3 2013 was $14.6M dollars, or 14% less than it made the prior Q3, and it was hardly surprise, given the precipitous drop in political for the group. All in all, results were better than expected, and the group has considerable near-future upside potential.

Moody’s Investors Service has rated a financial instrument being put into effect by growing radio group Townsquare Media and said the move will not affect the company’s corporate family rating nor change its overall stable rating.

Entravision’s net revenue dropped to $57.8 million in the quarter, from $58.5 million in Q3 2012, a decrease of $700K or 1%. Of the overall decrease, $1.2 million was from the television segment and was blamed on political ad comps, partially offset by increases in local ad revenue and retransmission fee dollars. This decrease also offset by a $500K increase (3%) in the radio segment, which saw an increase in local ad revenue, even though political ad comps were down as well.

Net revenue was $118.4 million, up 7.7% from Q3 2012. The comp was $109.9 million in Q3 2012. Station

The numbers look good at CBS – very good – and it has company leaders Sumner Redstone and

Rapidly growing Nexstar Broadcasting Group is picking up seven television stations in four

It’s the toymaker’s first Spanish-language multi-brand marketing campaign. Launched 11/1 in Los Angeles, Houston and Miami, “toy feliz” (www.toyfeliz.com)  is a 100% Hispanic-oriented effort,...

Beasley Broadcast’s “Stan and Haney” will celebrate their 5,000th radio show together on 11/8.  The heritage afternoon show, which airs on 96 K-Rock, WRXK-FM...

Dana Whitehair, Delmarva Public Radio's new GM, has made some programming changes at WSCL-FM Salisbury MD and WSDL-FM Ocean City, MD, reports the Cape...

A great attention-grabber in a broadcast commercial is the insertion of the emergency alert signal or a reasonable imitation of it. The only problem is that it’s completely illegal. Recent cases have caused the FCC to issue an advisory, a fine and to enter into a consent decree.

They jointly announced that all Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram, SRT, Fiat, and Mopar customers will receive a one-year SiriusXM subscription when purchasing any 2014...

The Peacock Network earned another victory Monday, beating #2 CBS by a comfortable margin. Farther back in the pack, Fox edged ABC to take...