Nielsen, Twitter establish social TV rating
It’s an exclusive multi-year agreement to create the “Nielsen Twitter TV Rating” for the US. Nielsen and Twitter will deliver a syndicated-standard metric around...
Suicide nurse blamed 2DayFM DJs
Jacintha Saldanha, the British nurse at the center of an Australian radio prank call is reported to have blamed two 2Day FM DJs for...
Radio deals in Quad Cities, Allentown
$800K WKEI-AM, WJRE-FM & WYEC-FM Quad Cities IA-IL (Kewanee, Galva, Cambridge IL). 100% of Virden Broadcasting Corporation from Randal J. Miller to Fletcher Ford....
Fisher embarks on buyback program
Television and radio group owner Fisher Broadcasting has been authorized by its Board of Directors to repurchase shares of common stock throughout 2013. Both...
Baltimore/Washington sports network on the block
The key programming elements offered by the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network are games of Major League Baseball franchises the Baltimore Orioles and the Washington Nationals....
Hard work rewarded: A radio transaction story
KBEL AM & FM are headed from Box Broadcasting Corporation to Brute Force Radio LLC for the nominal price of $1.00. But the real...
Amazon Prime signs with Turner, Warner Bros.
It’s an exclusive content licensing agreement with Turner Broadcasting System and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution to add TNT drama “Falling Skies” and the...
“Fox Sports 1” details surfacing
Fox is expected to announce plans for a national sports cable channel through the rebranding of its motor-sports network Speed, available in 78 million...
Stocks slip on Apple woes, cliff worries
One bad Apple may not spoil the whole bunch, but it certainly didn't do anything good for the stock market on Friday 12/14. That,...
Democrats adjust Senate Commerce membership
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) (pictured) will continue to wield the gavel as Chair of the influential Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and the...
Three station/three party NM TV deal closes
The sale of MNT KASY Albuquerque, CW KWBQ Santa Fe and KWBQ satellite KRWB Roswell by ACME Television has crossed the finish line. LIN...
FCC gets another call to halt ownership dereg
Communications Subcommittee Ranking Member Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and four of her colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee has sent a letter to FCC...
Service allows stressed noncom TVs to leverage auctions
Public television stations that are struggling to stay afloat do not have to think about shutting down -- Independent Public Media is offering a...
Sirius XM performance royalty set to rise
Services like Pandora want royalty parity with satellite services, and soon the amount they pay won’t have to come down quite as far. The...
Discovery to buy 12 TV stations, radio stations in Europe
Discovery Communications is buying 12 TV networks in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland