Stocks end lower, retreating from 5-year high
Stocks dropped on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said growth in economic activity has paused in recent months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped...
Lifetime to debut “Preachers’ Daughters”
Lifetime will premiere the provocative new family docuseries following the lives of three families for a behind-the-altar look at what happens at home after...
NRF blames Washington for dampened consumer spending
Here’s one more organization that believes the headlines which came out of Washington during the fiscal cliff struggle caused consumers to lose enthusiasm and...
TV public file download deadline is at hand
The FCC has sent out a reminder to all broadcast television stations, either full power or Class A, that the deadline for transferring public...
Ryvicker looks for cautious optimism going into 2013
2012 ended well, but 2013 started slow. However, Wells Fargo analyst Marci Ryvicker notes that things have been picking up, and prospects
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...