ABC

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...
Sold

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...
Handshake

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...
Tribune Broadcasting

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

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...
NBC

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...
US Congress

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

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...
Deal

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...
FOX News

FOX News Channel signs Herman Cain

FNC has tapped the former Republican presidential candidate, businessman, author and columnist as a contributor, announced Bill Shine, Executive Vice President of Programming. Cain...
TargetSpot

TargetSpot signs six new streams

TargetSpot, the largest Digital Audio advertising network, says it will deliver in-stream audio ads for six new partners – Songza, Radionomy, just hear !t,...