Spotify, Ford team for voice-activated audio streaming
Ford will be the first car maker to launch “Spotify in the Car,” a voice-activated music service, the two companies announced 2/25 at Mobile...
RAB: Radio turning the corner in digital sales
Radio gained digital share in 2012, and it looks like many stations are building on that momentum in 2013, according to a report issued...
Cox/Connoisseur come together in Connecticut
$40M WPLR-FM New Haven CT; WFOX-FM Stamford-Norwalk CT (Norwalk CT); and WEZN-FM Bridgeport CT from Cox Radio Inc. (Doug Franklin) to Connoisseur Media LLC...
Fresno TV: O Say Can You KSEE
$26.5M KSEE-TV Fresno CA from KSEE License Inc., a subsidiary of Granite Broadcasting Corporation (Peter Markham) to Nexstar Broadcasting Inc. (Perry Sook). $20M initial...
Top questionable questions of job seekers
Broadcasters, like any other members of the business community, are constantly bringing in new employees. Here is a compendium of oddball questions fielded by...
Boise Daystar affiliate sold
Gary Cocola’s Boise Telecasters LP has applied to sell KKJB-DT in Boise ID – and the deal is one that will likely please regulators....
HD radio used to revive student radio in Los Angeles
California State University Long Beach’s KKJZ-FM Long Beach serves the heart of the Los Angeles market with a Class B 88.1 MHz signal, focusing...
Study: Radio effectively enhances TV ads
Katz Marketing Solutions, the national marketing arm of the Katz Media Group, announced findings of a new study that quantified the importance of audio...
Rupert Murdoch sells more voting shares
The News Corp. Chairman and CEO sold voting shares in the media company worth around $28.9 million last week, further reducing his voting stake...
Stocks rally; S&P 500 falls for week
Stocks rallied on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average erasing weekly losses, after better-than-expected results from personal-computer maker Hewlett-Packard and an upbeat report...
CNBC launches first reality series
CNBC Prime launches its first reality series on Tuesday, 3/5 with the premiere of “Treasure Detectives” at 9PM ET/PT. A show that takes you...
Re/Max divulges media buy for latest campaign
We reported last week many of the details of Re/Max’s “For All the Things That Move You” campaign for this year, which uses broadcast,...
DISH finds way around Fox blocking its Hopper ads
Since FOX and the other three major broadcasters are turning down DISH’s ads over the current copyright violation litigation suits
FM piracy for buccaneers on a budget
Two radio bandits were caught operating in the New York City area. One confessed to his malfeasance; the other claimed to merely be an...
Details of the Cox-SummitMedia deal
$66.25M WENN-AM/WZZK-FM, WBHJ-FM, WBHK-FM, WBPT-FM & WZNN-FM Birmingham AL (Birmingham, Midfield, Warrior, Homewood, Gardendale AL); WHZT-FM & WJMZ-FM Greenville-Spartanburg SC (Williamston, Anderson SC); KCCN-FM/KINE-FM/KRTR-AM,...