Football preseason boosts NBC
Get used to this: The NFL is back on NBC Sunday nights, and NBC's dominance of the ratings is only going to grow when...
Facebook to sell “TV-style” ads
Facebook plans to sell TV-style commercials on its site for as much as $2.5 million a day, according to a Bloomberg report. The world’s...
ACA misleads on CBS/TWC comments
Blaming every retransmission consent-related blackout on broadcasters has always been a hollow charge – it takes two to reach an impasse. But this time,...
DirecTV sides with TWC over CBS dispute
You don’t see this everyday: Time Warner Cable rival DirecTV issued a statement 8/3 applauding Time Warner Cable's decision to drop CBS programming from...
CBS-TWC drama intensifies
Time Warner Cable's decision to drop CBS in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Denver after the two failed to
Deals in Savannah, Eugene
$525K WSGA-FM Savannah GA (Hinesville GA) from Scott Savage, Receiver to Educational Media Foundation (Mike Novak). $26.5K escrow, balance in cash at closing. Bankruptcy...
Young side of MG-Young merger
N/A KRON-TV San Francisco CA; WKRN-TV Nashville TN; WRIC-TV Richmond VA (Petersburg VA); WTEN-TV & WCDC-TV Albany-Schenectady-Troy NY (Albany NY, Adams MA); WATE-TV Knoxville...
PTC weighs in on FCC indecency proceeding
Parents Television Council sent in reply comments in regard to the FCC proceeding on indecency which among other things make clear that the content...
UHF cap discount may be headed for scrapheap
One of the anachronistic rules on the books at the FCC has been a policy that counts a UHF outlet as half a
Are cable retrans hardliners playing with fire?
Most MVPDs have come to the conclusion that the fairly modest amount of money they pay to
EMF picks up another commercial band FM
This time the noncommercial religious group is buying in the Fort Collins CO market. The seller, according to brokerage Kalil and Company, is Ted Tucker’s Cochise Broadcasting, which will earn cash for the station and may realize a tax benefit as well.
WPCM adds FM signal in Burlington, NC
Alamance County, NC, home of Curtis Media Group’s WPCM Radio, which features ’60s and ’70s music, beach music and local sports on AM 920,...
Entercom re-ups with Arbitron
It’s multi-year, multi-market renewals for Arbitron’s Portable People Meter (PPM) and Diary ratings services. The deal includes stations within Entercom’s portfolio of over 100...
Stocks add a kicker to Thursday’s surge
Dow Jones, S&P and NASDAQ all agreed – Friday prices were up, but you’d almost need a magnifying glass to see how much, as...
Halyburton buys into Wichita Falls FM duopoly
Dan Halyburton is not lacking for impressive resume material, with a career that includes stops at Susquehanna, Emmis and most recently, CBS’s Texas State...