Antioch NPR affiliate changing hands
The basic on-air product of WYSO-FM doesn’t figure to change much, and the names of the buyer and seller are similar, but the station is nonetheless changing hands, and the change carries a price tag in the millions. The station serves the Dayton OH market.
Streamline Acquires Radio Discussions.Com
Streamline Digital Inc., a division of Streamline Publishing Inc., has acquired the Radio Discussions
Dish bidding $2 Billion for LightSquared
Charlie Ergen, Dish Network Chairman, made a $2 billion bid 5/15 for radio frequencies from
Global Radio to sell seven stations in UK
The UK's largest radio station owner must sell stations in seven areas there to satisfy Competition Commission concerns over its $105.8 million buy of...
Stocks finish lower after hitting early highs
Stocks finished slightly lower Monday after many reached new all-time highs early in the session, only to retreat near intraday lows soon after. The...
DOJ got records of Fox News journalist
The Justice Department obtained a portfolio of information about a Fox News correspondent's
ABC dominates final Sunday of season
With the season finale of America’s Funniest Home Videos and the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, ABC dominated the final Sunday of the season in...
SKYY Vodka debuts “Be Part of the Art”
Via Lambesis of La Jolla, CA, he TV and social media campaign will support new “SKYY Infusions Moscato Grape,” the first-ever Moscato grape infused...
Clyburn addresses the troops
The FCC’s Mignon Clyburn era figures to be brief, but that said it will be of unknown duration. The Acting Chair told the FCC...
WRIF welcomes “Dave and Chuck the Freak”
The duo take mornings at Greater Media’s heritage Detroit rocker, replacing Drew & Mike. WRIF told its listeners Drew and Mike were going to be replaced with a pair that projected a younger, edgier vibe. Drew and Mike show ended last week after 22 years. "Dave and Chuck" will start 6 a.m. 5/28. Dave Hunter and Chuck “the Freak” Urquhart were previously on Alternative 89X, CIMX-FM Windsor, ON (right across the Detroit River).
Wheeler spinning media stocks
FCC chair nominee Tom Wheeler has a strong background in communications, and now he has a strong communications stock portfolio. But he has promised...
Foundation buys Williamsport FM
$125K WPTC-FM Williamsport PA from Pennsylvania College of Technology (Davie Jane Gilmour) to Williamsport Lycoming Broadcast Foundation (Todd Bartley). $12.5K earnest money, balance in...
Spending steady despite tax increase
Tax rates went up marginally in April, said economy watchdogs at Deloitte, but not enough to put much of a dent in a sustained pattern that has encouraged consumer spending. But the speed of improvement is still a question mark
MMTC takes aim at McCain’s a la carte bill
David Honig of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Counsel says that as appealing as a la carte sounds in terms of being a boon...
OTA deals for Pittsburgh-based Class A cluster
A total of 11 Class A television stations take the programming of the Bruno Goodworth Network to