Double deal creating Macon-area trio
Murray Communications will have one AM, two FMs and three licensee names in operation based just to the southeast of Macon GA after it brings a pair of separate acquisitions from Georgia Eagle Media to the finish line.
Stocks finish higher with help from Apple
Stocks finished higher on Tuesday, with the Dow and S&P 500 halting a two-session slide, as a rally in Apple helped boost tech shares....
Pryor holding communications hearing in Arkansas
There is a great way to get local attention from one of the federal legislative committees, and that is to have a key member...
Advertising organizations on alert on Capitol Hill
Congress is looking for ways to pay the bills and cut the national debt, and one prime arena in the project is the tax...
NBC ties for #2 in 18-49
NBC has tied for #2 in adults 18-49 among ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox for the primetime week of August 5-11 and is #2...
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.