NBC: “Dateline” up 25%
Sunday Results: From 9-11 p.m. ET, the season premiere of "The Biggest Loser"
(2.9/7 in 18-49, 7.0 million viewers overall) scored gains versus its
year-ago premiere...
What’s worse than a public fine fine?
Answer: A public file fine when it is discovered that your station has a prior for the exact same violation. That’s the case for...
Mars Chocolate re-ups with FLW
FLW, the industry’s premier tournament-fishing organization, says Mars Chocolate North America has extended their sponsorship throughout the upcoming 2013 season with the world’s largest...
Sirius XM unveils selection process for lease channel program
The selection procedures for leasing one “Qualified Entity” channel as part of its voluntary commitment stemming from the merger of Sirius and XM in...
ConnecTV launches ad network
Monetizing the ever-growing trend of TV viewers multitasking on their and smartphones, ConnecTV, the social network for TV fans, announced the television industry’s first-ever...
Roku surpasses 700 channels of streaming; adds TWC TV
Roku launched the first player to stream Netflix to the TV in 2008, and today streams more than 700 entertainment channels to millions of...
Radio transactions in Missouri, Montana and Texas
$112K KNLM-FM Marshfield MO from New Life Evangelistic Center Inc. (Lawrence W. Rice Jr. et al) to Catholic Radio Network Inc. (James E. O’Laughlin...
LocusPoint picks up LPTV near Baltimore
$1.8M WMJF-LP Baltimore MD (Towson MD) from Towson University (Mark E. Behm et al) to LocusPoint WMJF Licensee LLC, a subsidiary of LocusPoint Networks...
Nexstar gets bigger in Little Rock
Mission Broadcasting has closed on the $60M acquisition of a pair of Little Rock AR television stations and entered into a local partnership with...
NAB backs diversity measures alongside limited ownership dereg
According to the NAB, the FCC should get to work implementing suggestions from the coalition Diversity and Competition Supporters to encourage minority and female...
Bon Jovi using radio to catapult recording sales
The next album due out from Bon Jovi is set for a 3/26/13 release, but the first single is coming out right now, and...
Patti Blagojevich sues Merlin Media
The wife of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich in Illinois has filed suit against Merlin-owned WIQI-FM (i101) for using the likeness of her husband in...
HBO signs with Universal Films, blocking Netflix streaming
Time Warner’s HBO has re-upped with Comcast’s Universal Pictures to be the exclusive pay-TV provider of the studio's movies for another decade. Since this...
Planets in alignment for final NBC Sunday football game
NBC’s Sunday night prime time NFL football package has been scoring big for it all season, but it went galactic on Sunday 12/30/12. The...
FCC clarifies issues in Puerto Rico carriage case
America-CV Station Group has two broadcast stations in Puerto Rico. The introduction of MundoFox and the use of digital side-channels led to a programming...