ABC up week-to-week
Monday: In the 10 o’clock hour, ABC’s repeat Castle drew a 16% larger overall audience than NBC’s The Voice-fueled Take It All. Castle surged...
Dial Soap sues News Corp. over computer hacking
News Corp.'s latest hacking scandal doesn't involve breaking into voicemail in the U.K. to get story fodder, but this time a lawsuit from Dial...
NBC dominates week 13 with “The Voice,” football
With "Sunday Night Football" and "The Voice" accounting for the week's
#1, 2 and 3 primetime programs in 18-49, NBC has won the season's 13th
week...
Translator slammed by FCC for violations
Juan Alberto Ayala’s K262BP in Conner CA has had a rough time getting started, and to top it off did a very poor job...
NC AM donated from one religious licensee to another
$80K WBLA-AM Elizabethtown NC from Christian Listening Network Inc. (George E. Wilson) to Baldwin Branch Missionary Baptist Church (Louie Boykin et al). Donation valued...
Consumer confidence dips in December
The BIGinsight consumer sentiment barometer dropped a few points as 2012 winds down to a close. Still, the December sounding is the best the...
LMA’d Tupelo MS station sold
WLOV-TV, which serves the Tupelo DMA from its perch in West Point MS, is already in an LMA with WTVA Inc., licensee of WTVA-TV....
Wall Street ump assesses ION Media’s content strategy
The entities behind television programmer and television station owner Ion Media have been given a basically good bill of health by Moody’s Investor Service,...
Kansas trio bought out of receivership
It’s not the kind of deal you want to make, but it is definitely a KIND of deal – in fact, the stations being...
NAB contests contest rule-announcing rules
If a radio station wants to run a contest, it must disclose often complex rules over the air per current regulations. In asking for...
More details on networks TWC is culling
TWC CEO Glenn Britt threatened to drop networks with low ratings when their programming contracts expire at a conference 12/3 in New York. “If...
Talker Dana Loesch files suit against Breitbart.com
Tea party activist and Emmis-owned KFTK-FM St. Louis Conservative talker Dana Loesch sued the owner of the conservative website Breitbart.com 12/21, claiming that although...
Cartersville, GA’s WYXC gets new ownership
According to the Cartersville Daily Tribune, “News talk 1270” WYXC-AM came under new ownership 12/21 by employees John and Brandi Underwood took. They’re joined...
KOGO-FM flips from News-Talk to Rhythmic AC
This is unusual—a talk format moving to music: Clear Channel’s simulcast of its KOGO-AM San Diego has flipped to “Kiss 95.7…the Rhythm of San...
Andrew Zepeda fired from Cumulus’ WWWM-FM
Andrew Zepeda, host of “Andrew Z in the Morning” on WWWM-FM 105 (Star 105) Toledo, was fired 12/26 from the Cumulus station along with...