ABC gets another week of gains
Overall: Posting its 3rd straight week of Total Viewer gains (+5%) and growing 10% in Adults 18-49, ABC hit 7-week highs on both measures...
“Jeff and Melissa Show” debuts on B98.5
Mornings in Atlanta have a new wakeup call when Cox Media Group’s B98.5 introduces the “Jeff and Melissa” show starring Jeff Elliott and Melissa Carter,...
DG selling TV ad delivery business
DG, which bills itself as an ad management provider, has entered into an agreement to sell its television ad delivery business to Extreme Reach,...
ABC sings its way to Monday win
CBS actually had the top show for the night - Under the Dome - but the slate of reruns that preceded it could not...
Pac–12 Networks launches campaign to drop DirecTV
The campaign, dubbed “Compare,” contrasts the exciting Pac-12 football action a fan will see on Pac-12 Networks with what they won’t see on DirecTV. Via San Francisco-based BarrettSF, the effort will be featured on digital, print, outdoor and radio--and across all Pac-12 member university platforms. Entering its second season of covering Pac-12 football, Pac-12 Networks is distributed on more than 50 video providers across the country, including three of the four largest.
Time Warner Cable issuing refund for SHO blackout
Time Warner Cable's planned refund to Los Angeles customers for the first eight days of its 8/2 blackout of CBS, Showtime and other affiliated...
Radio One juggles its way to positive Q2
The radio stations in the Radio One portfolio didn’t have a bad quarter, nor did they have a great one
Shreveport combo, Lake City FL FM sold
$260K KASO-AM & KBEF-FM Shreveport LA (Minden, Gibsland LA) from Robert J. and Mary J. E. Whitaker to Minden Broadcasting LLC (Richard M. Chreene,...
California senators call for end to CBS-TWC sparring
Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) believe that subscribers are the big losers in the ongoing retransmission consent impasse between CBS and Time...
Spin cities: Sinclair’s Allbritton side deals
The $985M acquisition of Allbritton Communications by Sinclair Broadcast Group has spawned three side deals with their own packages of JSAs and SSAs. Two of the deals involve Deerfield Media, the other is with Howard Stirk Holdings.
Price revealed for Merlin-EMF Philly deal
Randy Michaels and his Merlin Media are making a pile of cash appear and a station listed
Gary Burns to ARB, FCC, DOJ: “Total Line” policy unfair
The owner of 3 Daughters Media stations in the Roanoke-Lynchburg, VA penned a letter to the FCC, FTC
Eddie “Piolin” Sotelo to SiriusXM
Now we know why rumor had it that Piolin was building new studios—they were for a new SiriusXM channel with his branding on it:...
Mountaineer Sports Network adds 13 more affiliates
IMG College announced the addition of 13 new affiliates for West Virginia University sports radio broadcasts. The new stations bring the total affiliate network...
Stocks end with Dow loss, Nasdaq gain
Stocks closed a low volume, light-news session with slight losses, though the tech-dominated Nasdaq managed a gain Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended...