Broadcast News

Obtaining capital for broadcast investment has long been a major hurdle for those wishing to enter the broadcasting business, and it is hoped that...

Todd and Margaret Marker and their RM Broadcasting LLC already have three FMs in the Palm Springs market, and now they have a deal to acquire a fourth.

It’s been rough going for the media during the past five years, according to stock watchdog EY, but the

A group of key legislators has fired off a letter to Acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn asking about incentive auctions. They note with concern that the FCC may initiate the auctions prior to having applicable treaties in place with Canada and Mexico.

Radio One’s Indianapolis R&B station WTLC-FM has accused fired disc jockey Krishna Henderson-Hutchinson of violating its policy on payola and adding songs to the playlist based on a personal relationship. Henderson-Hutchinson, who was known on-air as “First Lady Khris Raye,” was let go 12/12. She then filed a lawsuit in Marion Superior Court in June, alleging breach of contract and seeking at least two months of back pay.

The Chicago radio legend (WCKG, WDAI, WLUP, WMVP and WLS) has decided to skip his induction into the National Radio Hall of Fame, reports...

Fox News host and Premiere Networks talker Sean Hannity called the Affordable Care Act hotline during his show 10/23 and spoke with operator Earline...

CBS's Big Bang actually outdrew baseball's big event, but it was the only show that did as Fox took the night. CBS was #2,...

“Radio is the last mass-reach, real-time medium. We've never been more important to the consumer or the advertiser,” Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman told...

Acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn is taking a step long advocated by the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council – she’s looking to open the door to greater investment by foreign capital sources in US broadcast licenses. MMTC was quick to praise the move, and was joined by the NAB.

We haven’t seen many Class A television stations busted down to LPTV status due to problems with their adherence to children’s television reporting regulations lately, but we are still seeing quite a few get hit with monetary penalties.

The contract for the acquisition of NextMedia by Dean Goodman’s new Digity LLC radio group is expected to be made public any day now. And we do have details on a related deal – the sale of two suburban Chicago FMs to Matrix Broadcasting LLC.

Brian Wieser, Senior Research Analyst at Pivotal Research Group, is seeing a positive trend emerging for the radio biz. In recent periods,