Clyburn takes on TV sports blackouts
The FCC has been telling interested legislators that it was close to issuing a recommendation on
Listeners the star of WVOX on pre-election day
On Monday, 11/4, Whitney Radio President Bill O'Shaughnessy will be airing listeners’ comments on the Tuesday elections all day long on hyper-local talker, WVOX-AM Westchester-NYC. Here’s the promo he’s been running to set the stage for the deluge of calls:
Envision welcomes 19 new affiliates in October
Envision Radio Networks provides content and services to more than 1,400 radio stations. Envision supplies morning show content, short-form vignettes, virtual news-weather-sports broadcasts, live...
Two hats for Nexstar exec
Thomas O’Brien figures to have a plenty on his daily workload plate and should also provide a challenge for the business card industry as he takes on the role of Executive Vice President/Digital Media and Chief Revenue Officer.
Booker takes a seat on Commerce Committee
New Jersey faces perhaps the most challenging broadcast environment of all 50 states, and the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) used his seat on the Senate Commerce Committee to press the case for his state. The state has a new voice there in the person of Sen. Cory Booker.
FCC opens proceeding on AM revitalization
MB Docket 13-249 will take up proposals to bring renewed vigor to America’s senior broadcast band, largely along lines previously announced by Acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn. Your comments will be accepted upon publication of the proposal in the Federal Register.
Wheel rolls to another syndie win
Pat Sajak and Vanna White pulled in over 10M viewers during the week of 10/14, giving their show more eyeballs than any other syndicated...
ABC takes Halloween
An 8% chunk of the 18-49 audience was missing Thursday due to Halloween-related activities, and ABC had Charlie Brown on hand to help capture...
GoDaddy details some of Super Bowl campaign
For a 10th year in a row, GoDaddy is in the Super Bowl line-up. The web platform for small businesses has bought two thirty-second...
West Virginia FM headed for daisy-chain cluster
$1.3M WCWV-FM Summersville WV from R-S Broadcasting Company Inc. (Wesley Brown) to Summit Media Broadcasting LLC (Nunzio A. Sergi). $50K escrow, balance in cash...
Another Class A move by Locuspoint
$1.4M WBNF-CD Buffalo NY from Faith Broadcasting Network Inc. (Michael J. Daly) to Locuspoint WBNF Licensee LLC (William deKay, Ravi Potharlanka et al). $10K...
Schurz expands into Rapid City
Citing the difficulty of operating a TV standalone in the modern communications marketplace, Duhamel Broadcasting Enterprises has accepted an offer from Schurz Communications to acquire its Rapid City SD ABC affiliated KOTA-TV and three satellites.
WaPo joins list of TV companies in odd-year crunch
The newly-newspaperless Washington Post still owns a television group, where the lack of political and Olympic income caused the red ink to flow freely in Q3 2013. Results for its cable division weren’t nearly as gruesome.
Another investment in NC airspace from Curtis
Donald W. Curtis and his Eastern Airwaves media group has been snapping up FM translators in North Carolina of late – and now a deal has been filed for a between-market AM station.
Arizona station owner to run for governor
Murphy Broadcasting owner Rick Murphy is no stranger to politics in his state. He was twice defeated in congressional races and rebuffed by voters...