TWC watching Aereo case with interest
Time Warner Cable isn’t ready to pull local broadcast television from its cable lineup and begin delivering it to subscribers via the internet
Four charged in radio station owner shooting
Police in Helena, Arkansas (pop. 10,000) have charged four people in connection with the shooting of Elijah Mondy, owner of Christian Radio KJIW-FM. He...
Nexstar to open new broadcast/digital ops center
Nexstar Broadcasting says that after months of planning and construction it will open a new broadcasting and news facility in Memphis to support the...
Entravision has strong Q1 from both radio, TV
Net revenue increased to $49.1 million for the quarter, from $46.5 million in Q1 2012, a 5.3% increase. From that, $1.8 million (a 5.4%...
John Tesh to debut “Intelligence for Your Life TV”
John Tesh, syndicated radio show host, musician, author and media entrepreneur, announced his Tesh Media group is launching "Intelligence for Your Life TV." The...
Stocks surge on drop in unemployment claims
Stocks rallied Thursday, nearly clearing the prior day's sharp losses and bringing the benchmark indexes back into the green for the week, after the...
SEC and ESPN to launch TV network
ESPNThe Southeastern Conference and ESPN have signed a 20-year agreement through 2034 to create
EAS: FCC waves off waiver request
The deadline to install new EAS equipment was extended several times, but when the final day came, 15 separate entities had filed for temporary...
Clear Channel increases profit on lower revenue
There was a smaller number on the bottom line for Clear Channel in Q1 2013
Nielsen Catalina Solutions signs Crown Media
Crown Media Family Networks, home of Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel, is acquiring a license to the analytical data needed to put its...
AOL Radio streaming…again
Not so fast—a couple of days AOL Radio, powered by Slacker, was not playing any streams—all day. Now they’re back up. So the news...
YouTube’s Schmidt: Battle with TV already over
In their NewFront presentation to advertisers in NYC, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt declined say when Internet video will displace
Senator questions Wheeler nomination
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is calling into question the nomination of Tom Wheeler as the next chair of the FCC. Sanders said the chairman’s...
Gray beats expectations with shrinking numbers
The entry into a political off year had a visible effect on the financial results of Gray Television, but despite the need for red...
Why an FHFA appointment is good for radio
There is a new nominee for the post of Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). Normally, this appointment would be of zero interest to members of the radio community who lack a personal relationship of some kind with the nominee, but in this case, the move is removing a strong supporter of the Performance Rights Act out of the House of Representatives.