Maine Public Broadcasting Network gets grant
M.P.B.N. is now looking to make upgrades to improve its radio and TV signals around the state thanks in large part to a federal...
ABC’s The Taste finished 2nd in 25-54
Shifting back to a 1-hour format (after last week’s 2-hour debut) against an original of CBS’ NCIS in the 8 o’clock hour, ABC’s The...
Fox: New Girl, Mindy Project see double-digit gains
With a full hour of RAISING HOPE to lead into NEW GIRL and THE MINDY PROJECT, FOX posted its highest-rated Tuesday night among Adults...
Small deals in Texas, California and Colorado
$15K FM CP Benavides TX from Charles Crawford to Ernest R. Lopez. Cash. CP is for Class A on 94.3 MHz with 4 kW...
New Hampshire LPTV sold
$4.1M WYCN-LP Boston MA (Nashua NH) from New Hampshire 1 Network Inc. (William H. Binnie) to OTA Broadcasting LLC (Todd Lawyer, William Tolpegin et...
Thune gets top GOP spot on Commerce Committee
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is continuing on as Chairman of the influential Senate Commerce Committee, and the Republicans have finally gotten around to naming his...
Analyst sings the praises of Gray Television
Alex Heisenberg of Seeking Alpha believes that television group Gray has already benefitted from political, will continue the benefit from the resurgence of automotive,...
Meredith donates station into a de facto AM duopoly
This is an odd little deal, not in the least because it is very rare to put a story about Meredith Corporation in RBR-TVBR’s...
Roanoke-Lynchburg radio deal draws petition to deny
The proposed $1.025M acquisition of WLNI-FM by Mel Wheeler Inc. has met with a formal protest from
Houston DJ faces identity theft charge
A volunteer DJ at KTSU-FM, licensed to Texas Southern University in Houston, has been charged with stealing donors’ credit card info and using it...
Report: Super Bowl ad spend justified in subsequent online visits
Super Bowl sponsors have a new rationale for the record $4 million they’re spending on some 30-second spots this year: viewers of the most-watched...
YouTube to begin pay walls
YouTube plans to start selling subscriptions to some of its streaming video channels, putting it onto the same playing field with Hulu and Netflix....
Zucker cleaning house at CNN
Jeff Zucker, the new president of CNN Worldwide, has made no secret of his intention to shake up things at the ratings-challenged news network,...
Dow up to highest level since Oct. 2007
Stocks mostly gained Tuesday with Pfizer's better-than-expected earnings helping lift the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its highest finish since October 2007. The Dow...
Gun shops facing stricter cable spot regulations
The nationwide gun debate is moving to local gun shop advertising as well: Time Warner Cable is placing more stringent controls on commercials advertising...