SCBA launches interactive sales training
The Southern California Broadcasters Association (SCBA) announced their exclusive Fall 2013 Southern California Broadcasters University (SCBU) Radio Sales Training Classes set to begin 9/23...
Time Warner, Lakers, Dodgers face class action suit
More push from the public for a la carte: TWC customers claim in a class action suit that the costs of Time Warner Cable's...
WJSJ flips in Jacksonville
WJSJ-FM Fernandina Beach/Jacksonville, FL has flipped (8/5) to an Adult Hits format, after stunting with Christmas music. It used to air “Caliente 105.3,” a...
Cox Chairman wants trust dissolved
Jim Cox Kennedy, Chairman of Cox Enterprises, has asked a judge to dissolve a 1941 trust for Anne Cox Chambers, his billionaire aunt, to...
LRFA picks up 13 more co-sponsors
A growing group of federal legislators are signing on to the Local Radio Freedom Act, a bipartisan measure designed to head off an AM-FM...
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