Townsquare deal details Part 1
$238M WBLM-FM/ WJBQ-FM, WCYY-FM & WHOM-FM Portland ME (Portland, Biddeford ME, Mount Washington NH); WSHK-FM, WOKQ-FM, WSAK-FM & WPKQ-FM Portsmouth-Rochester-Dover NH (Kittery ME, Dover,...
Rockefeller looks to move on FCC nominees
It may not be long before the Tom Wheeler era begins at the FCC and Ajit Pai ceases to be one of the loneliest...
Nashville area AM headed to new owners
Jo and Neil Petersen have a pair of AM stations in Springfield TN to the north of Nashville, and now they have a deal to add another to the northwest in Ashland City. The station is WQSV-AM.
Friday was not a fun day on Wall Street
Nobody can be sure what either the Fed or Congress are up to, and that makes for skittish stock trading. Suffice it to say...
Big Bang wins as viewership dips
The Big Bang Theory did not post its most impressive syndie ratings numbers, but they were good enough for the win in terms of...
LRFA continues to build support
Eight more members of the US Congress, including seven from the House of Representatives and one from the Senate, have signed on as co-sponsors...
FTC greenlights Nielsen/Arbitron wedding
The $1.3B acquisition of radio ratings giant Arbitron by television ratings giant Nielsen has been
Big day for broadcast at the FCC
Broadband has dominated the agendas of FCC Open Meetings for the past several years, and even when broadcast managed to horn in for a little attention, it was often concerning incentive auctions, a plank that is also primarily about broadband. So the three broadcast/cable items teed up for the September 2013 meeting makes it the biggest broadcast session in recent memory.
Hedge funds cleared to advertise
For the first time in years, on 9/23/13, hedge funds will have the right to advertise their wares – but the complexity of their...
Attorney coins a term and shoots down Eshoo bill
We all know what intransigent means, but when it comes to unresolved retransmission consent negotiations, Pillsbury attorney Scott R. Flick believes “retransigent” is a better word. And he also show how the Anna Eshoo (D-CA) bill to ease such impasses will only make them take longer and become more frequent, and further, in some of its particulars, doesn’t even make any sense.
Cumulus deal to “park” station with broker shot down
Media Services Group broker Bill Whitley recently had a more direct role in a broadcast transaction than
Over the top viewing growing rapidly
According to the latest data from Nielsen, consumers are taking control of when and where they view their favorite content via the use of...
CBS ekes out Thursday win
Only 0.4 ratings points separated #1 from #5 Thursday, but CBS was able to grab the top slot with nothing but reruns while Univision...
Deals in Vermont, Texas
$125K WNGF-FM Swanton VT from Northeast Gospel Broadcasting Inc. (Brian A. Larson) to Christian Ministries Inc. (Ed Chase et al). Debt forgiveness.
$15K KHJA-FM...
Ryvicker: Local up, regulation static
In a wide-ranging look at the broadcasting industry, Wells Fargo analyst Marci Ryvicker found much