New owner for Dallas AM
KKDA-AM Grand Prairie TX is being sold by longtime owner Service Broadcasting Group. The Classic R&B outlet is headed to SKR
Greater Media flips News Talk 96.9 to “Power 96.9”; then flips again
On 1/3, Greater Media’s News Talk 96.9 Boston switched over to an Urban format--"Power 96.9." The move marks a return for the format in...
Stocks close mildly lower amid budget-deal hopes
Stocks ended lower for a fourth session Thursday as Wall Street fumed over the still-unresolved fiscal cliff. However, the indexes erased the bulk of...
Fox was #1 with teens
Strong performance by the two-night THE X FACTOR finale this week led the network to rank No. 1 for the week among Teens and...
CBS scores week’s top six dramas
NCIS was the week's top program in viewers – topping Sunday Night Football – as well as the top scripted program in adults 25-54...
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...