Station sales: AM in Oklahoma, FM in Massachusetts
$421K KBIJ-FM Guymon OK from Grace Community Church of Amarillo (William Gehm) to OMI Oilfield Investments LLC (Oralia T. Cowan). $42.1K escrow, balance in...
Genachowski commits to 2013 NAB Show
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will participate in a session with broadcasters at the big convention in Las Vegas. The 4/10/13 session will be moderated...
Prime time score card: ABC
Four ABC prime time programs are already on the cancelled list, and two more are almost certainly headed for that same fate. But the...
EMF in buy-sell deals with Victor Michael and partners
Only $20 cash is changing hands between Educational Media Foundation and two license companies headed by Victor A. Michael Jr., but in the end,...
WCBS-TV anchor accused of choking wife
Officers received a call 2/17 from WCBS-TV NYC anchor Rob Morrison's mother-in-law about trouble at the couple's home in Darien, CT, police said. Morrison...
Rick Warren to host daily talker on Salem
After resisting doing a radio or TV program for 32 years, mega-church pastor Rick Warren announced a deal with Salem Communications to broadcast a...
Stop selling ads and do something useful
Banner ads didn't always suck. I should know. I helped create the first one. My children tell me that's like inventing smallpox. It was...
Chicago Cubs to renegotiate TV rights with WGN
Officials confirmed 2/18 that the team plans to begin renegotiating its broadcast rights agreement with WGN-TV, putting nearly half of its televised games in...
JBS to sell off three LPTVs in Virginia
Newport News, VA- based JBS (Jacobs Broadcasting System) is selling off three locally-based LPTVs to pay back defrauded investors, creditors and debt. Samuel B...
Jerry Doyle to headline at “Babylon 5”
Talk Radio Network Enterprises’ Jerry Doyle host of The Jerry Doyle Show has been named as featured guest at the 2013 Phoenix Comicon event...
Prime time scorecard: NBC
Seven programs on the Peacock Network are virtual locks to make it to the end of the 2012-2013 television season in May, according to...
Reps on board with Local Radio Freedom Act
Mike Conaway (R-TX) and Gene Green (D-TX) are the driving forces behind LRFA, a bill that would oppose any attempt to in any way...
AFA buys in Winchester
$1.1M WTRM-FM Winchester VA from Timber Ridge Ministries (Theodore Richard Choy) to American Family Association Inc. (Timoty B. Wildmon). $100K down payment, balance in...
NBC: SNL in the 90’s scores well in 18-49
Sunday Results: From 9-11 p.m. ET, "Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation" (1.4/3 in 18-49, 4.0 million viewers overall) scored NBC's...
Swapping one AM brings translator help for another
Victoria Radioworks owns and operates KNAL-AM, and San Antonio Radioworks owns and operates KMFR-AM Pearsall TX. It is going to swap the Pearsall station...