Comcast now second largest advertiser in US
Five years ago, Comcast Corp. was the nation's 50th-largest advertiser. Comcast, now with movie, news, and entertainment giant NBCUniversal under its corporate umbrella, rose...
Live Nation names Greg Maffei Chairman
Live Nation Entertainment, the concert and ticketing giant, named Gregory B. Maffei its new chairman, the latest in a series of shifts in corporate...
Ad spend in the US was up 2% in 2012 on strong Q3
Hampered by an historic hurricane and the looming fiscal cliff but buoyed by a presidential election and the summer Olympics, advertisers managed a 2...
Time Warner Cable moves to rename NY1
Market research has shown that viewers are not aware that NY1, O&O'd by Time Warner Cable, airs there exclusively in the NYC DMA. So,...
Asheville AM heading to noncom licensee
$78K WFGW-AM Asheville NC (Black Mountain NC) from Blue Ridge Broadcasting Corporation (James Kirkland, David P. Bruce) to International Baptist Outreach Missions Inc. (J....
Hubbard doubles in Albany
$2.3M WNYA-TV Albany-Schenectady-Troy NY (Pittssfield MA) from Venture Technologies Group LLC (Paul Koplin) to WNYT-TV LLC, a subsidiary of Hubbard Broadcasting Inc. (Stanley S....
Walden slated for appearance at NAB Show in Vegas
One of the most influential members of Congress when it comes to broadcast legislation is House Telecommunications Subcommittee Chair Greg Walden (R-OR). As a...
LocusPoint snaps up another Class A TV
Rapidly-expanding LocusPoint Networks LLC is picking up its eighth Class A television station and second in Detroit in a deal with TCT of Michigan...
Majority stake in Kentucky FM sold
WXBC-FM calls itself The Voice of Breckinridge County, and soon the pile of station shares with the biggest of ten voices will be changing...
Report: KGO Radio reshuffling in San Francisco
The San Francisco Chronicle’s Andrew Ross has looked into what’s going on at Cumulus’ KGO-AM San Francisco, in the midst of changes aimed at...
Stock rally leaves S&P two points from record
Stocks rallied Thursday, with the S&P 500 index finishing within 2 points of its all-time closing high and the Dow Jones Industrial Average extending...
Outdoor Channel bought for $227 Million
Outdoor Channel Holdings, owner of a cable-TV network with hunting and fishing programs, agreed to be bought by Kroenke Sports & Entertainment LLC, spurning...
Method Brings “Clean Happy” campaign to TV
Method, the leading innovator in premium, environmentally-conscious household and personal care products, launched its first ever TV campaign in a regional test. The 12-year-old...
Vevo launches 24-hour music channel in US, Canada
31 years after MTV launched with all music-videos, the network airs anything but music. Now video website Vevo has launched a 24-hour digital music...
CBS launches streaming app
The new CBS App for iPhone and iPad users offers full-episode streaming of CBS programming from primetime, daytime and late night. The new app...