Sinclair picks up Cox stations in four markets
Cox Media has been pruning its portfolio, and the latest move is to send a quartet of television stations to Sinclair Broadcast Group. In...
Karmazin adds FM in West Palm Beach
WUUB-FM, a station that was an overstock item in the earlier deal between CBS Radio and Palm Beach Radio, is going to Craig Karmazin’s...
Arbitron Q4, full year revenue up
Arbitron is getting ready to blend into the welcoming arms of Nielsen, regulatory-powers-that-be willing, and it will no doubt be good news to the...
Stocks sink on political concerns
Stocks fell sharply on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average slammed the hardest since Nov. 7, as political issues, both domestically and abroad,...
Hooters launches “Step Into Awesome”
Hooters of America announced the launch of a new campaign and has selected Skiver Advertising as its new AOR. Skiver's first effort was to...
Family stations deals hit the finish line
Noncom religious group Family Stations has been in spin mode of late, and now two of its recent deals are closed. In the hands...
Hubbard doubles in Albany NY
Hubbard Broadcasting, the Minnesota-based group with both broadcast and television interests, is adding a second television station in New York’s capital market, Albany-Schenectady-Troy. It...
“Dateline NBC” grows 13%
Sunday Results: From 7-8 p.m. ET, an encore telecast of "Dateline NBC" reported a 0.8/2 in 18-49 and 4.1 million viewers overall. From its...
American Forces Network adds Laura Ingraham
Courtside Entertainment Group announced The Laura Ingraham Show is now heard by more than one million U.S. service members and their families via American...
Salem enjoys healthy Q4 2012
According to religious radio/internet specialist Salem Communications, its space in the business world as a whole enjoyed a 4.3% revenue gain during the final...
NAB Crystal Radio finalists named
The National Association of Broadcasters announced the 50 finalists for the 26th Annual Crystal Radio Awards. Since 1987, the NAB Crystal Radio Awards have...
Fence fine reduction comes with FCC warning
On top of have trouble keeping a Georgia AM station on the air, its licensee was also hit with a hefty fine for failure...
Puerto Rico television stations over-commercialized kids programs
There are limits to how much commercial time can be inserted into television programming aimed at children, and a pair of co-owned television stations...
Regional Arizona radio group gets FM fill-in
A swap-cash deal is bringing an extra voice on the FM dial to Petracom of Holbrook LLC, in exchange for one of Petracom's AM voices....
Moody’s sees a stable Clear Channel
The leverage is still very high at radio giant Clear Channel, but a new note proposal which would come due