Executrix gets control of and sells Ranger FM
KWBY-FM Ranger TX is following a convoluted path to the portfolio of High Plains Radio Network. The station is ultimately being sold by Marion...
Stocks end lower on Cyprus bank worries
Stocks fell on Thursday, pressured by weak euro-zone economic data, escalating worries over the banking crisis in Cyprus as well as disappointment with Oracle’s...
PTC attacks violence on TV
The Parents Television Council did a check and found that almost half of the television shows it watched during a survey contained some form...
Lifetime wins in court to air “Romeo Killer”
Lifetime has won the legal right to premiere its original movie “Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story,” starring Emmy Award winner Eric McCormack (Will...
New LPFM launching in Sun Valley
With a promised mission to "inform, educate and engage," a new noncommercial LPFM will launch 3/31, in the Wood River Valley, serving Sun Valley...
FOX Sports Radio offering daily Big Ten show
In conjunction with Big Ten Network, FSR is offering the third season of “BTN Live,” a daily Big Ten football show. Beginning 8/26, the...
NBC: First “SVU” original in three weeks inches up in total viewers
Wednesday Primetime Results: From 8-8:30 p.m. ET, “Whitney” averaged a 1.1/4 in 18-49 and 3.2 million viewers overall. From 8:30-9 p.m. ET, an encore...
Pure Michigan campaign goes national
Via McCann Erickson Birmingham, MI, Pure Michigan, the state's tourism ad agency, has launched its largest-ever national TV campaign. The $13 million effort runs...
Restructuring Access.1 puts FMs in trust
N/A KSYR-FM Shreveport LA (Benton LA); and KCUL-FM Tyler-Longview TX (Marshall TX) from Access.1 Communications Corporation (Chesley Maddox-Dorsey et al) to Cosecha Communications LLC...
Detroit Class A to LocusPoint
$4M WDWO-CD Detroit MI from TCT of Michigan Inc. (Garth Koonce et al) to LocusPoint Networks LLC (William deKay, Ravi Potharlanka). Buyer may use...
Washington sendoff for Robert McDowell
Although he isn’t even gone yet, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell’s announcement of his imminent departure got the Washington PR machine cranked up to 5th...
Odd FTC crackdown on fur advertising
99,999 times out of 100,000, we suspect advertisers would like to tout their products as being totally natural and 100% free of synthetic material....
NBCUniversal doubles in Philadelphia with Telemundo outlet
WCAU-TV is the NBC O&O in the Philadelphia DMA, and it soon be paired with a second O&O
Red Rock expands central Minnesota cluster
KLKS-FM Pequot Lakes MN is in the Brainerd MN area, and a deal will put it into a local group with two FMs and...
Michael Baisden says goodbye, locked out of Cumulus
By his own account, Michael Baisden has been kicked off the air and locked out of the studio. According to his Facebook page, he...