Tim Jeffreys leaving KFOG mornings
Morning driver Tim Jeffries is reportedly leaving to pursue another opportunity—possibly within the Cumulus/Bay Area station group. Cluster OM Bill Pugh is sitting in...
“Livio Keys,” FM Traffic Button launch for OEMs
Livio unveiled the two new offerings at Telematics Update in Detroit. Livio Keys is intended to be a communications solution for everything related to...
Two seconds is too much of a stock tip advantage
New York AG Eric T. Schneiderman has an agreement with Thomson Reuters which is designed to level the field for those playing the stock...
Young at heart Media General gets upgrade
Television group Media General will be more than young at heart – it’s going to have the stations of Young
GA politician gets controversial radio gig
The fact that Chip Rogers (R) left a gig as the Majority Leader of the Georgia State Senate to take a public radio gig...
CBS re-ups with Netflix
It’s an extension of its multiyear licensing agreement for select CBS library content streamed instantly to Netflix customers. Under the revised deal, new titles...
Hal Ramey returns to KCBS after surgery
The KCBS-AM San Francisco veteran sports anchor didn’t say a word for three months because of a growth on his vocal cords. The condition...
Cumulus Dallas FM sale leading to new buy?
Cumulus is in the process of spinning KTDK-FM Sanger TX to Media Services Group broker
Fox, CBS finish Sunday in a dead heat
CBS had almost twice as many total viewers as Fox Sunday night, but Fox dominated the 18-34 audience as the duo dueled to an...
Nebraska radio trio gets some R&R
$1.15M KBMR-FM Omaha NE (Blair NE) & KHUB-AM/KFMT-FM Fremont NE from Community First Media of Nebraska LLC (Richard Chapin, Dean Sorenson) to R&R Broadcasting...
Side deals of the Gannett/Belo merger
$101,779,739 KTVK-TV/KASW-TV Phoenix AZ; KMOV-TV St. Louis MO; KGW-TV Portland OR; WHAS-TV Louisville KY; and KMSB-TV Tucson AZ from subsidiaries of Belo Corporation (Dunia...
House panel tees up FCC again
The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology is convening Thursday 7/11/13 to take up the topic “Improving the FCC Process.” The hearing will basically put...
Clyburn details early results of CALM Act
In response to a letter from Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn detailed the early returns...
Winchester FM sale includes improvement potential
Alex Media is getting a nice price for its WTCF-FM Wardensville WV, which serves the Winchester VA market. And if its ideas for certain improvements are acted on by buyer Timber Ridge Ministries, it can make even more.
TV is still Americans’ main news source
According to a new Gallup report, television is the main place Americans say they turn to for news about current events (55%), leading the Internet, at 21%. 9% say newspapers or other print publications are their main news source, followed by radio, at 6%.